
Summer activities for lower secondary school
Grazia Cotroni

Turn summer into a learning adventure without stress!
Unlike traditional summer workbooks, our holiday activity workbooks for lower secondary school students offer a fresh, engaging approach to learning. Each volume blends curriculum-based revision in Mathematics with creative prompts, logic puzzles, and playful challenges, transforming summer study into a game-like experience.
Designed to capture the attention of young readers, these books support content retention while stimulating imagination and critical thinking. If you are seeking innovative, learner-friendly educational resources, these notebooks make learning enjoyable — anytime, anywhere.
THE VOLUMES IN THE SERIES

Enigmatic maths 1
The perfect holiday workbook for first year of lower secondary school (11 years +).
Packed with puzzles, exciting challenges, and gripping stories, this book will show students that numbers are more than just formulas — they’re full of adventure! As they solve problems and search for clues, they’ll uncover the identity of the great mathematician hidden behind the numbers.
The book is divided into 4 sections:
Section 1 Numbers, the decimal system, expressions and fractions
Section 2 Shapes and space
Section 3 Relationships, data and graphical representations
Section 4 Games with triangles and numbers

Enigmatic maths 2
The ideal holiday workbook for second year of lower secondary school (12 years +).
Enigmatic Maths is the ultimate companion, guiding students through a world of brain teasers, logic challenges, and engaging tales. But it’s not just about numbers — there’s a mystery to solve and a brilliant mathematician waiting to be revealed, hidden within the pages
The book is divided into 4 sections:
Section 1 Numbers, fractions, percentages and proportions
Section 2 Shapes and space
Section 3 Relationships, data and graphical representations
Section 4 Games with shapes, words and GeoGebra

Enigmatic maths 3
This holiday workbook is the perfect companion for students in their third year of lower secondary school (aged 13+).
Enigmatic Maths 3 turns summer revision into an investigation, with monomials, equations and geometric solids becoming challenges to overcome, clues to gather and secrets to decode. Each page brings you closer to solving a greater mystery, and only the brave ones able to overcome every challenge will discover the identity of the protagonist hidden amongst the numbers.
The book is divided into 4 sections:
Section 1 Numbers, monomials, and first equations
Section 2 Shapes and space
Section 3 Relationships, data and graphical representations
Section 4 Games and crossword puzzles
THE AUTHOR
Grazia Cotroni is a Mathematics and Physics Teacher in secondary school. Since 2009 she has been in charge of the Bottega di Matematica with the DIESSE Association, she is a trainer on the topic of didactic innovation.