Weird but True!
Animals
Sports
Anything Goes
200
If the year is 2025, when was this book checked out?
1737
Leslie would be so mad! :)
200
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Some groups have over 300 flamingos. Which numbers round to 300?
A. 7,300
B. 384
C. 297
D. 345
C and D
200
The longest MLB game lasted for 8 hours and 6 minutes. How many minutes is that?
486 minutes
200
7 x 3 = 5 + ___
16
400
A giraffe's neck has 7 bones, the same as a human neck. How many bones are in 8 people's necks?
7 x 8 = 56 bones
400
A cheetah can run 75 miles an hour, which is faster than a car drives on a city street. About how many hours would it take a cheetah to get to get to Oklahoma, which is 368 miles from Austin, if it ran at full speed the entire time?
about 5 hours
400
The longest swim without stopping was 139 miles. Round that number to the nearest ten AND the nearest hundred.
140 miles
100 miles
400
Write two questions about this graph that have an answer of 15.
Possible questions:
1. How many people prefer baseball?
2. How many more people prefer football than basketball?
3. How many more people prefer hockey than baseball?
4. How many more people prefer soccer than basketball?
600
Sloths can hold their breath under water for 40 minutes. In two hours, how many times would a sloth need to breathe?
3 times
600
A kangaroo can jump over ten feet high in a single leap.
Which of these numbers, when rounded to the nearest 10, would have an eight in the tens place?
A. 87
B. 281
C. 56,984
D. 78,678
B, C, and D
600
Sha'Bella's mom loves to run marathons. A marathon is 26.2 miles. If she ran three marathons last year, how many miles did she run during those races?
78.6 miles
600
How many children prefer pepperoni pizza?
9 children
800
Children have about 300 bones, while adults have 206 bones. What is the difference in the number of bones in Axel and his dad have?
Axel has 94 more bones than his dad.
800
Ants are the strongest animals - they can carry up to fifty times their weight. This is like a human lifting a car!
If an ant weighs 4 mg, how much weight could it carry?
200 mg.
800
Bo Nix, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos, spent $103,418 on a new car. Write that amount using expanded notation.
(1 x 100,000) + (3 x 1,000) + (4 x 100) + (1 x 10) + (8 x 1)
800
Raiden tracked his steps and made this pictograph. How many total steps did he walk on Wednesday - Friday?
13,500 steps
1000
The average person blinks 15-20 times per minute. Which of these is NOT a good estimate for how many times a person blinks in 5 minutes?
A. 100 times
B. 30 times
C. 75 times
D. 82 times
B
1000
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. How many hours would they be awake in a full week?
2 x 7 = 14 hours
1000
purple = 2
blue = 1
green = 1
maroon = 4
pink = 8
? = 12
1000
Helen has 61 cards.