Money Mayhem
Andrea has $360 in her bank account. She spends $12.02 at lunch with her sister, and then buys a pair of shoes for $24.99 for her birthday.
When she gets home, she sees that her mom has sent her $25 as a birthday gift. She deposits it into her account.
How much money does Andrea have now?
Andrea has $347.99
Over the summer, Mrs. Ales plans to hike up the 600 foot tall Diamante waterfall. She will rappel down the waterfall and then dive into the pool at the bottom, going 10 feet under water. How many total feet will she travel?
610 feet
A candy recipe that your family uses for the holidays uses a variety of dry and wet ingredients.
Dry Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups flour
1/3 cup of sugar
1/9 cup of baking soda
How many total cups of dry ingredients are there?
1 25/36 cups
Mrs. Arnold's garden is 5.4 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is the area of her garden?
Her garden is 42.3 feet squared
You've got $55 to spend on some summer shopping. You can get bathing suits for $19 (B), sunglasses for $6.05 (G), sunscreen for $3.99 (S), and flip flops for $9.08 (F).
You decide to get 2 pairs of sunglasses and 3 bottles of sunscreen.
Write an inequality to show what you can get for your budget.
B + 2G + 3S + F < $55
Write and solve an equation to model the following story:
Our class ordered 3 pizzas of 12 slices each from Papa Johns. If we ate 11/12 of a pizza, how much pizza is left over?
2 1/12 pizza or 2 whole pizzas and 1 slice!
Our class is making chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for 1 4/7 cups of flour and serves 12.
We need 24 cookies. How much flour should we use?
3 1/7 cup of flour
Mrs. Ales is building a garden behind her grandmother's home. There's not a lot of space there, so the garden will have to be a trapezoid. The base is 10.5 feet across, and the top is 8.2 feet across. The total perimeter is 30.7 feet. What is the length of the two sides?
Each of the two sides is 6 feet
You can get 6 pairs of socks for $3.99 on a special deal at Walmart.
Write that as a unit rate.
$0.67/1
Write an equation to model the following story:
Miss Davis is thinking of ordering some special Mother's Day cupcakes, which cost $C for her mom this weekend. The cost of delivery is $12. If Miss Davis gets 27 cupcakes for her mom, and spends $58.05 total, how much was each cupcake?
Write an equation and then solve
27C + 12 = $58.05
Each cupcake was $2.15
In order to make a pumpkin roll for a party, Mrs. Ales needs to buy 3 tins of cream cheese, 1 container of pumpkin pie spice, and 4 rolls of Pillsbury dough.
If a container of cream cheese costs $1.89, pumpkin pie spice costs $0.77, and each roll of dough costs $3.17, how much will she spend?
She will spend $19.12
Miss Davis is painting giant ice cream cones on the side of her house because-- well, why not?! She is using caramel colored paint for the cones. Each cone is 12 meters high with a base of 5 meters.
If the equation for the area of a triangle is 1/2bh, find the area that Miss Davis will need to paint using caramel color.
30 feet squared
At the supermarket, you can get 3 individual apples for $2.64 or you can buy a bag of 5 apples for $4.95.
Which is the better deal, the 3 individual apples, or the bag of 5?
Three individual apples is a better deal!
At track practice, 3 runners timed themselves on different dashes.
Runner 1 ran 15 meters in 4.5 seconds
Runner 2 ran 50 meters in 9.7 seconds
Runner 3 ran 100 meters in 22 seconds
Which of the runners is the fastest?
Runner 2 is the fastest!
Runner 1: 3.33
Runner 2: 5.15
Runner 3: 4.54
The class ordered a HUGE baguette to make a giant sub sandwich. The baguette is 6 3/4 feet long. The class wants to cut it into 1/3 foot long slices so that each student can have some. How many slices can they make?
20 1/4 slices
Reflect the triangle ABC over the x axis.
A (-2, 5)
B (1, 5)
C (0, 1)
Points:
A (-2, -5)
B (1, -5)
C (0, -1)
Our class could get a microwave for $112 at Target. Lucky for us, there is a 15% discount for teachers and students!
What is the price of the microwave with the discount?
The microwave costs $95.20
Three students got their grades back on the end of year math test.
Student R: got a 76%
Student J: got 16/21
Student P: got 0.755
Order these scores from least to greatest.
A recipe for Grandpa's famous punch calls for Sprite soda and cranberry juice in a ratio of 8/5.
In order to make enough punch for the whole family, he is going to use 3 1/2 liters of soda. How much cranberry juice should he use?
2 3/16 liters of cranberry juice
Mrs. Ales wants to get a HUGE box of See's chocolates for her mom for Mother's Day. The box fits 6 rows of chocolates with 14 chocolates in each row.
Her mom loves soft-center truffles. Mrs. Ales wants to maintain a ratio of at least 3/5 between the number of soft centers she gets, and the total number of chocolates she gets. How many soft-centers should Mrs. Ales get for her mom?
She should get 51 soft centers.