Are you looking for a fun detective maths mystery to engage your students in Place Value? Then this math activity is for you.

Capture your students attention with this fun CSI Math Mystery activity by taking them on a journey to solve Place Value problems. Students narrow down the possible options by completing the activities and marking them off until one person is left. Who is the thief?

The Maths mystery includes five place value activities. Answers are included. Activities include fin the missing number, greater than, less than and equal signs, read numbers in words and match to calculations, make the largest number and value of underlined digits

Math Mysteries are an independent escape room or crack the code type of fun math activities where instead of using locks, students identify suspects with puzzles and word problems.

These math mysteries are designed for third, fourth and fifth class students. Could also be used with struggling sixth class students that need a little extra work and reinforcement in place value.