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Black History Month
Division Word Problems
Bonus
100

5/1

5

100

Name 2 famous black Americans we learned about this week

Mr. Mac will approve answer


100

Mr.  Mac has 10 slices of pizza to split between 5 people, how many slices will each get?

2 slices each
100
Say something nice about someone on the other team

Mr. Mac will approve the answer


200

12/6

2

200

This person took hundreds of slaves to freedom along the underground railroad and had a nickname "Moses"

Harriet Tubman

200

There are 4 people including Mr. Mac in Mr. Mac's Basketball and Nachos appreciation group. It is a group where they eat nachos all while playing basketball and wearing Lebron James jerseys. If they have 20 pounds of nachos, how many pounds will each person get?

5 pounds of nachos per person

200

Name one team playing in the Superbowl this weekend. Bonus points if you can name both

Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers


300

36/6

6

300

This person was born a slave but learned to read and write, he educated himself and became an incredible speaker, arguing for abolition. He was an advisor to Abe Lincoln

Frederick Douglass

300

Tra'miaya has 100 pool noodles. She wants to split them evenly to help her ten pet blue whales swim. How many pool noodles will each blue whale get?

10 pool noodles per whale

300

What is the tallest mountain in the world? (bonus points if you can name what country it is in)

Mt. Everest

400

45/9

5

400

What was one of the reasons the book gave for why black Americans would become "Buffalo Soldiers" after the civil war?

Learn to read and write, soldiers were paid better than most other jobs, sense of adventure

400

Buddy made 1 million dollars in the month of January because he is the worlds most high paid dog model. If he wants to spend his entire fortune on bones, and they cost 1 dollar a piece, how many bones can he buy?

1 million bones

400

What is the longest river in the world? Bonus points if you can also name the second longest river

Nile, Amazon

500

1,000,947/0

Cannot divide by zero


500
Name 5 famous civil rights activists. Bonus points if you can tell us two ways the civil rights movement is similar to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Mr. Mac will approve answer


500

If we have fifteen people in person, and Ms. Stephenson buys sixty buckets of fried octopus. How many buckets of fried octopus can each person get?

4 Buckets per person

500

What is the largest country in the world? (Bonus points if you can name the country with the largest population) 

Russia, China

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