Word Problems
Bases
Integers
Fractions
Camel Recipes
100
Mother Cat is making mittens for her three cold kittens.
It takes two balls of wool to make mittens for one kitten.
How many balls of wool will Mother Cat need to make mittens for three little kittens?
Six balls of wool are needed.
100
What is the age of the oldest person in your group?
We will see :)
100
2 + (-8)
Where do you start? Which direction? How far?
2, left/down, 8
Answer: -6
100
Simplify.
15/40
3/8
100
If 9999 = 4, 8888 = 8, 1816 = 3 1212 = 0, then 1919 =
2
200
John draws three shapes and then a sixth one. You can see them in the picture.
What is the twelfth shape?
A circle
200
Convert 3334 to Base 10
6310
200
-18.34 ______ -18.43
Greater than or less than ?
Greater than
200
Cut into 7 equal pieces.
I will show
200
If 1/2 of 5 is 3, then what is 1/3 of 10?
4
300
Grandpa has five pockets in his jacket.
In one pocket he has one chocolate.
In another pocket he has two chocolates. In another he has four chocolates.
In yet another he has double that many and in the fifth pocket he has double that many again.
How many chocolates does Grandpa have in his jacket?
Grandpa’s pockets hold 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 chocolates. So he has 31 altogether.
300
Convert 1810 to base 8
228
300
-15____ 48 = -63
Fill in the blank with the operator.
Subtraction
300
2/3 + 1 3/4 =
2 5/12
300
If you can only draw three lines, how can you slice a pie into 7 pieces? (Hint: They don't have to be equal)
400
One third of the animals in the barn are chickens. The rest are pigs.
There are 20 legs in all.
How many pigs are there?
4 pigs
400
Convert 2123 to Base 4
1114
400
14 + (-2) – (-13) – 8 – 9 = ___________
-20
400
7/4 * 5/6
1 11/24
400
How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000? (only use addition)
he key to this math riddle is realizing that the one place must be zero. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000
500
On the pirate ship there are 24 pirate swords. Each pirate has 2 swords.
If half the pirates lost a sword in battle and a quarter of the pirates each gained a new sword, how many swords would there now be on the pirate ship?
There are 12 pirates, and that 6 swords are lost, leaving 18 swords.
12 divided by 4 is 3, so this is the number of swords gained, making 21 swords altogether.
500
I ask Abdilahi how many students are at Abaarso and he tells me 2000. I ask him if he is counting in Base 10 and he says no. What base is he counting in?
Base 5
500
This number is less than -2.
It is divisible by 12 and 8.
This number is greater than -80.
What number is this?
-48
500
Khalid ordered two pizzas cut into eighths. If he ate 5/8 of a pizza, how much was left?
1 3/8 or 11/8
500
I need to enter a castle that is surrounded by a five meter wide rectangular moat filled with water. I have an aversion for getting wet and only have two 4.8 meter long planks with no rope, nails, etc. How do I get across? 
