Math: Mind Crunchers
Solve this expression: (4 X 5) + (12 divided by 3)
What is 24?
What do you call an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees?
What is a right angle?
What is the prefix in the word unbelievable, and what does that prefix mean?
What is "un-", which means "not"?
When an author gives human-like qualities to non-human things—like saying "The wind whispered through the trees"—they are using this literary device.
What is personification?
If a map's scale says that 1 inch equals 50 miles, how many miles apart are two cities that are 4.5 inches apart on the map?
What is 225 miles?
What is the value of the digit 7 in the number 4.735?
What is seven-tenths? (or 0.7)
Find the area of a rectangular garden that is 12 feet long and 5 feet wide.
What is 60 square feet?
Identify the adverb in this sentence: The nervous actor stepped onto the stage and sang beautifully.
What is "beautifully"?
What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?
What is: a biography is written about someone by a different person, while an autobiography is written by the person themselves.
What is the figure of speech used in this sentence? "The classroom was a zoo during the indoor recess rainy day."
What is a metaphor?
Convert the improper fraction 17/5 into a mixed number.
What is 3 and 2/5
To find this statistical value in a set of data, you line up all the numbers from least to greatest and pick the exact number in the middle.
What is the median?
The words accept (to receive) and except (excluding) sound nearly identical but have completely different spellings and meanings. This makes them what kind of words?
What are homophones?
Read this sentence: "The player's face was flushed with anger after the unfair referee call." Use context clues to determine what flushed means.
What is red, blushing, or hot?
simplify this fraction to its lowest terms:24/36
What is 2/3
A pair of sneakers costs $80. Today, they are on sale for 25% off. How much money do you save?
What is $20? (The final cost would be $60)
Find the volume of a rectangular prism (like a box) with a length of 5 cm, a width of 3 cm, and a height of 4 cm.
What is 60 cubic centimeters (or cm3)
Name the conjunction in this sentence, and state whether it is coordinating or subordinating: We cannot go to the park until it stops raining.
What is "until", which is a subordinating conjunction.
If a piece of writing is organized by showing what happened first, second, third, and last, what text structure is it using?
What is chronological order? (Accept sequential order).
Change this passive-voice sentence into the active voice: The delicious chocolate cake was eaten by the dog.
What is "The dog ate the delicious chocolate cake."
Solve for x in this equation: 3x - 7 = 20$
What is 9? (3 X 9 = 27, and 27 - 7 = 20
A triangle has two angles that measure 45 degrees and 65 degrees. What is the measure of the third angle?
What is 70 degrees? (The angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees).
A prime number is a number that only has two factors: 1 and itself. What is the only even prime number in existence?
What is the main difference between first-person point of view and third-person omniscient point of view?
What is: First-person uses "I/me" and only knows one character's thoughts, while third-person omniscient uses "he/she/they" and knows the thoughts/feelings of all characters.
Maya is making a pattern. The first number is 4. The rule is: "Multiply by 2, then subtract 3." What is the 5th number in her pattern?
What is 19? (1st: 4 -> 2nd: 5 -> 3rd: 7 -> 4th: 11 -> 5th: 19)