Patterns
A pattern of ordered pairs is shown.
(0, 1), (2, 4), (4, 7), (6, 10)
The pattern continues. What is the eighth ordered pair in the pattern?
What is (14, 22)?
Alexander is baking cupcakes. He needs 9/12 cup of sugar to make chocolate cupcakes
and 1/3 cup of sugar to make vanilla cupcakes. How much more sugar is needed for the
chocolate cupcakes than for the vanilla cupcakes?
What is 5/12 cup?
Marcos has $8.00. He earns $11.50 for mowing the lawn. Then he spends $6.99 for a
notebook. How much money, in dollars, does Marcos have left?
What is $12.51?
Mr. Karr resurfaced a sidewalk in the park that was 125.065 meters long. How is this
number written in words?
A. one hundred twenty-five and sixty-five hundred thousandths
B. one hundred twenty-five and sixty-five thousandths
C. one hundred twenty-five and sixty-five hundredths
D. one hundred twenty-five and sixty-five tenths
What is A. one hundred twenty-five and sixty-five hundred thousandths?
Reese makes necklaces using 17 charms. Reese has 1,751 charms. How many
bracelets can Reese make?
What are 103 charms?
Smoothies cost $4 for a small drink and $8 for a jumbo drink. Ethan makes two number
patterns to compare the costs. He writes ordered pairs in the form (small drink cost,
jumbo drink cost) for the corresponding numbers of drinks. Which ordered pairs could be
on Ethan’s list? Choose all the correct answers.
A. (8, 12)
B. (12, 24)
C. (16, 30)
D. (20, 40)
E. (48, 24)
E. (48, 24)
What is B. (12, 24) and D. (20, 40)?
A honeybee is inch long. A bumblebee is inch long.
What is the difference in the lengths of the two types of bees?
What is 2/10?
A boy and girl run up a hill to get water, but fall down.
What is Jack and Jill?
5x(4-2)+3?
What is 18?
Crissy buys 5 bags of tomatoes. Each bag weighs 2/3 pound.
How many pounds of tomatoes Crissy buys?
What is 10/3 or 3 1/3?
Aubrey and Bristol each create a pattern.
Aubrey’s pattern starts with 3 and uses the rule “Add 4.”
Bristol’s pattern starts with 5 and uses the rule “Multiply by 6.”
The ordered pair (3, 5) represents the first terms in each pattern.
Which ordered pair represents the second term in each pattern?
A. (7, 11)
B. (12, 11)
C. (7, 30)
D. (1, 1)
What is C. (7, 30)?
Denny practiced two strokes for a swim meet. He spent hour on the breaststroke.
He spent hour on the backstroke. Did Denny spend less than 1 hour practicing the
two strokes?
What is yes?
A black sheep is asked about his wool and tells that he has 3 bags full.
What is Baa Baa Black Sheep?
Which value is greater than 414.05 but less than 414.5?
A. 4 hundreds + 14 ones + 15 hundredths
B. 4 hundreds + 14 ones + 2 hundredths
C. 4 hundreds + 1 ten + 4 ones + 4 tenths + 10 hundredths
D. 4 hundreds + 14 ones + 15 tenths
What is D. 4 hundreds + 14 ones + 15 tenths ?
Riley has 4,786 books to put into boxes. A box holds 48 books. Exactly how many
boxes does she need to hold all of her books?
What is 100 boxes?
17. Kentavious and Cameron are collecting books for a school project. Their collections are
recorded in this table.
Kentavious 5 7 9 11 13
Cameron 2 6 10 14 18
How many more books will Cameron collect than Kentavious on the eighth day if the
pattern continues?
What is 11?
Janet buys 1 1/4 yards of cloth. She uses 3/8 yard for a craft project. How much cloth, in
yards, does Janet have left? Show your work.
What is 7/8?
A Spider climbs up a house but the rain washes him back down.
What is The Itsy Bitsy Spider?
Nurses at a hospital weigh five newborn babies. Which newborn baby weighs the most?
A. 8.075 pounds
B. 7.099 pounds
C. 7.561 pounds
D. 8.501 pounds
E. 7.800 pounds
What is D. 8.501 pounds?
At the bakery, one dozen equal-sized muffins contain a total of 1/2 cup of sugar. How
much sugar does each muffin contain?
What is 1/24 cup?
Annsley has two patterns of numbers.
The first pattern starts with 1 and follows a rule of increasing by 1.
The second pattern starts with 16 and follows a rule of decreasing by 4.
Which number represents the point in each pattern when they are equal?
What is 4?
Ms. Ligon collected 12 boxes of markers for her school. There are 10 art classes on
campus. How many boxes should each class receive if the boxes are divided equally?
What is 1 2/10 or 1 1/5?
A little girl sits and eats a bowl of porridge when a spider comes down and scares her.
What is Little Miss Moffet?
Marv’s fish tank holds 55 gallons of water. Allie’s fish tank holds 25 fewer gallons than
Marv’s tank. Rob’s fish tank holds twice as many gallons as Allie’s tank.
Which expression represents a process for finding the number of galloons Rob’s fish
tank holds?
A. 2 x 55 - 25
B. 2 x (55-25)
C. 55 - (25 x 2)
D. (55 x 2) - 25
What is a B. 2 x (55-25)?
Box one has a length of 5 inches, a width of 2 inches, and a height of 4 inches. Box two has a length of 7 inches, a width of 5 inches, and a height of 3 inches. What is the combined volume of both boxes?
What is 145 inches3?