MATH MINUTES
SIMPLE MACHINES
DAILY READING PASSAGES
DIVISION
GRAB BAB
100
A right angle measures?
What is 90 degrees.
100
Name the simple machine that is a bar resting on a fulcrum that moves a load.
What is a lever.
100
This vocabulary word from "Hadrian's Wall" means what you do when you make something stronger.
What is fortify or fortified.
100
If you have a divisor of 15, what is the highest value a remainder in the problem can have?
What is 14.
100
A synonym for the word, descendant.
What is ancestor.
200
The distance around a polygon
What is perimeter.
200
Give the name of the simple machine that is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder that holds things together.
What is a screw.
200
The name of the country that Hadrian's Wall extended across for 73 miles.
What is England (Northern England).
200
What is the quotient for the dividend, 342, divided by the divisor, 15?
What is 22 R12 or 22 and 12/15 or 22 and 4/5.
200
What group of people discovered America long before Christopher Columbus
What is the Vikings.
300
Give two names for an angle that is marked as follows: ray one is A, ray two is B, and the vertex is M.
What is AMB and BMA.
300
Name the simple machine that can be described as a wheel with teeth around it and used to change the direction of an object.
What is a gear.
300
The vocabulary word from the reading passage, "Sleeping in a Capsule," that means you make fun of something.
What is scoff.
300
What kind of number will a quotient be if you have a dividend of 62 and a divisor of 75?
What is a decimal.
300
The meaning of the initials CE.
What is Common Era.
400
Multiply 22.34 x 4.
What is 89.36
400
This simple machine is a slanted surface connecting a lower surface with a high surface.
What is an inclined plane.
400
According to the passage in "Sleeping in a Capsule," capsule hotels can be found in this country.
What is Japan.
400
Divide 683 by 25.
What is 27 R8 or 27 and 8/25.
400
If Lexi starts out having 52 pencils in her supply bin and then gives 2 to Nathan, 3 to Payton, 2 to Ashlyn and then somehow looses 4, and breaks 1, and then catches Ryan taking 5 out of her supply bin, and finally buys 9 more pencils at the store, how many pencils will Lexi end up with.
What is 44 pencils.
500
The rate = 60 miles/hour If a car travels 3 and 1/3 hours, how many miles will it travel?
What is 200 miles. 60 miles x 3 hours = 180 miles 1/3 hour = 20 miles because 1/3 of 60 miles = 20 miles 180 miles + 20 miles = 200 miles.
500
This simple machine uses grooved wheels and rope to move a load.
What is a pulley.
500
The best reason you might find capsule hotels in crowded cities.
What is more people can fit in less space.
500
Ian had 456 candy bars. Wow, I wonder where he got so many candy bars? He wanted to give everyone in class an equal share. If Ian gave an equal share to 26 students and Mrs. Brezinski, how many whole candy bars would everyone receive?
What is 16 candy bars.
500
Calli and Megan made 75 duct tape bows. They want to keep 15 of the bows and divide the rest among the girls in our classroom. There are 17 girls altogether. How many bows will each girl receive?
What is 4 bows.
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