Numbers and Operations
Mitzi has 377 baseball cards. She gives her friends 209 of them. Estimate to the nearest ten about how many she has left.
About 170
There are 12 players on the Gallivanting Gophers shoe tossing team. 4 of the players are under 12 years old. One player is 13. The rest are 12 years old. What fraction the team is 12 years old?
7/12
Ronald loves bowling and wants to build his own bowling alley. He wants it to be rectangular and 85 feet long and 25 feet wide. What will the perimeter of his bowling alley be?
220 feet
In her latest international skating competition, Claudia was given these scores: USA 9.6, France 9.8, Germany 8.95 and Canada 9.75. Who gave Claudia the lowest score? Who gave Claudia the highest score?
Germany and France
On the famous "Guess Who I Am" television show a mysterious shape gave these clues while hiding behind the curtain: "I have more sides than a square but less sides than a hexagon. I am a polygon." What was the name of the shape?
pentagon
Marilyn Moviestar expects 2,735 guests at her wedding next week. She wants to give each guest a souvenir toaster. The toasters are sold in boxes of 550. How many boxes should she order?
5 boxes
Jimmy and Jamie are twins. They are in different fifth grade classes. Each class has 24 students in it. Jimmy said, "My class is 3/4 boys." Jamie replied, "Well my class is 12/16 boys." Which class has more boys?
They each have the same number of boys
Mrs. Gray is making punch for students in grade 6. She usually gives a cup to each student. If she makes 8 quarts of punch, how many students can she serve?
32 students
Jumping Jane got the the results of her latest broad jump. She jumped 5 3/10 ft. Her previous jumps were 5.5 ft, 5.1 ft. and 3.5 ft. Is this her best jump yet?
no
Dr. Shapey was trying to complete his new museum of shapes. The only shape he is missing is a rectangle. A shape dealer offered him a pentagon, a triangle, or a square. Which one should he purchase for the display? Why?
a square because a square is a rectangle.
Talk about big collections! Yigzat from Planet Flop collects dust specks. She has 11,347,999 specks. Her brother, Bassinet, asked her about how many dust specks she has. What would be her best answer to the nearest million?
About 11 million
Petunia found an old pirate recipe for making punch. It said that she needed 12/18 of a cup of jungle juice. "My measuring cup isn't marked in eighteenths," she lamented. "It only has thirds, halves, and quarters." She can still use it. What measurement could she use?
She can use 2/3
Cinderella's fairy godmother went to the sewing shop to to get 280 cm of lace trim for a sash she was making for Cindy. The clerk told her they only sell it in meters. How many meters of lace trim should Cinderella's fairy godmother ask for?
3 meters
Sue took a pie out of the oven. Her brother, Brian said, "That looks great. Tell you what. If you give me 0.75 of it, we'll forget about the $5 you owe me." Sue said, "How about if I give you 3/8 of it instead?" Which is a better deal for Brian?
0.75
Eddie drew a triangle with sides of 8cm, 6 cm, and 8cm. What kind of triangle did Eddie draw?
an isosceles triangle
Determined Donald scored 832 total points playing his new electronic game Nonetendo. He played 4 games and scored the same amount of points in each game. How many points did he score in a game?
208 points
Mr. Timmons said he would buy his class the cloth they needed to make a giant squid. The first group needed 3/8 of a yard and the the second group needed 4/8 of a yard. How many yards of cloth should Mr. Timmons buy?
7/8
Connie saw a stand selling her all-time favorite cheese. Connie wanted to buy as much as she could. There were four pre-wrapped packages already weighed and marked like this: 1.4 lbs, 1 9/10 lbs, 1.05 lbs, and 1 15/100 lbs. Which one would she buy to get the most cheese?
1 9/10 lbs.
Susan likes to eat sugar cubes that are one square cm. She was putting them in boxes that are 2 cm high, 3 cm wide and 4 cm long. How many cubes could she fit in 3 boxes?
72 cubes
The sixth grade classes in Yipee Elementary School were collecting empty cereal boxes to help their art teacher, Paula Picasso, create a cereal box sculpture. Mrs. X's class handed in 3 shopping bags with 2 boxes in each bag. Mrs. Y's class handed in 3 shopping bags with 2 boxes in each bag. So did Mrs. Z's and Mr. Q's. How many cereal boxes were collected?
24 cereal boxes
Mr. Crews teaches 6th grade and has 21 students in his class. Two-thirds of his class brought their lunch on Friday. The rest of the class ordered pizza. Pizza costs 2 lunch tickets. How many lunch tickets should Mr. Crews send down to the cafeteria?
14 lunch tickets
The snake, Cuddles, is a quarter-inch longer than Bacon Bit. Bacon Bit is half an inch longer than Floyd. Floyd is 8 1/2 inches long. How long is Cuddles?
9 1/4 inches long
The Giganto Chocolate Bar can be cut into 200 pieces. The customer could had a sore throat and could not talk but he wrote "0.2 of the bar" on a pice of paper. How much should the clerk give the customer?
40 pieces
The curators of the Mooseum are ready to move in the cow exhibits that will cover 10,000 square feet. They told Eduardo when he designed the 90 ft by 150 ft building to make sure there was at least that much floor space. Is Eduardo in trouble? Why or why not?
no because it is 13,500 sq ft.