Halloween Mathematics

A selection of Mathematical Halloween-themed Mathematics resources:

For many Halloween problems, try the windows on Transum Mathematics Halloween.

Transum – Halloween starters
Halloween Relay
Halloween relay – Chris Smith

From Chris Smith, try his great Halloween relay and note the whole set. I have used many of these very successfully – have fun whilst doing plenty of Maths!

Nrich Halloween

From Nrich, thinking about systematic listing strategies with younger students, check this Halloween Investigation, just how many possible Halloween costumes are there?

Or a good starter for Halloween perhaps, try Halloween Day on Nrich, a problem taken from the UKMT Maths Challenges.

On TES Resources, we have the following free activities, all with answers included:

  • Halloween Maths Decimals, dh2119. 13 questions on a Halloween theme, tailored to test
    decimals, large numbers (millions and billions), and problem-solving.
  • Halloween Maths – negative numbers maze, Miss E Honey. Practise adding and subtracting up to 3 negative numbers.
  • Halloween Maths nth term revision, Tom TeachesMaths. A colour-by-number pixel art worksheet covering nth term with questions involving linear, quadratic and some ratio sequences
  • Algebra Halloween Murder Mystery, Fiona Jones. Tasks include simplifying, substitution, equivalent terms, and solving equations.
  • Halloween Fun Maths Mystery from Soaring Stars Education. The resource covers algebra, substitution, collecting like terms, expanding brackets, factorisation & a couple of codebreaking puzzles.
  • Functional Maths – Zombie Outbreak, Somnophorev2. Given a map, a list of the number of survivors at each location, and a set of instructions, pupils work to rescue as many people as they can.

And to finish, a ghost from WolfamAlpha! Checking popular curve examples on WolframAlhpa, a discovery, I had not realised that it was possible to, for example, create a randomly colored ghost curve! Refresh the page for different color ghosts!