Math Operations
Solve this subtraction problem: 63 - 21
What is 42
If you cut a pizza into 4 perfectly equal slices, what is the math name for each individual slice?
What is one-fourth? (or a quarter)
Name two words in this sentence that need a capital letter: next monday, my friend sam is visiting.
What are "Next", "Monday", and "Sam"?
What is a synonym (a word that means the same thing) for chilly?
What is cold?
Maya has 5 pockets. Inside each pocket, she has 2 dimes and 1 nickel. How much total money does Maya have?
What is $1.25 (or 125 cents)?
What is the double of 15?
What is 30?
How many centimeters are in 1 meter?
What is 100?
Make the word box plural (meaning more than one box)
What is "boxes"?
What is the root word (or base word) of unhelpful?
What is "help"?
What is the matching possessive pronoun for a group of people? For example: The kids won the trophy, so the trophy is ____.
What is "theirs"?
If a box holds 6 donuts, how many donuts are in 8 boxes total?
What is 48? (6 x 8)
A rectangular playground is 10 feet long and 5 feet wide. What is the perimeter (the distance all the way around) of the playground?
What is 30 feet? ($10 + 10 + 5 + 5$)
What are the two nouns in this sentence? The eager astronaut climbed into the heavy rocket.
What are "astronaut" and "rocket"?
Choose the correct homophone to fill in the blank: I can't wait to ____ my new teacher tomorrow! (Meat / Meet)
What is "meet"?
I am a mystery number. If you multiply me by 9, the answer is 0. What number am I?
What is 0?
Solve this division problem: 56 divided by 7
What is 8?
Which fraction is larger: fraction 1/2 or fraction 1/5
What is fraction 1/2 ? (An item split into 2 pieces has much larger pieces than one split into 5).
Which word in this sentence is an adverb? The beautiful cardinal chirped happily from the tree branch.
What is "happily"? (It describes how the bird chirped).
Authors use a special trick called alliteration when they repeat the same starting sound in a row. Give an example of a 3-word phrase using alliteration.
Answers will vary
When you say "the classroom was a zoo during rainy-day recess," you aren't saying there were actual wild animals there. What type of figurative language are you using to compare the classroom to a zoo without using "like" or "as"?
What is a metaphor?
Start with the number 10. Multiply it by 4, then subtract 12. What is your final number?
What is 28? (10 x 4 = 40, and 40 - 12 = 28)
What is the area of a square blanket if one of its sides measures exactly 6 feet long?
What is 36 square feet? (Since it's a square, all sides are equal: 6 X 6= 36
What is the complete subject of this sentence? The three friendly golden retrievers chased the tennis ball.
What is "The three friendly golden retrievers"?
Read this sentence: The riddle was so confusing that it left Leo completely baffled. Based on the context clues, what does the word baffled mean?
What is confused, puzzled, or stumped?
A farmer has an equal number of chickens and cows on his farm. Together, all of his animals have a grand total of 24 legs. How many chickens does he have?
What is 4? (Each pair of 1 chicken and 1 cow has a combined total of 6 legs ($2 + 4$). $24 \text{ total legs} \div 6 \text{ legs per pair} = 4 \text{ pairs}$. So, he has 4 chickens and 4 cows).