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Dazzle me with Decimals
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Divide it up
Can you compute?
100
Kylie read 45.8768 pages in her princess book. What is the value of the 7?
7 hundredths
100
Mrs. Strawhorn and Ms. Eubanks were driving to the movies. The GPS said their location was somewhere between 7.8 and 7.9 miles away. Write a number that could be how far away Mrs. Strawhorn and Mrs. Eubanks are.
Answers will vary.
100
Mrs. Strawhorn had $75 in her wallet. She bought donuts for her fourth grade math class and had $48.96 left over. How much did she spend on the donuts.
$26.04
100
Kylie and Delaney went trick or treating. They received 672 pieces of candy. If they want to divide the candy evenly into groups, how many different groups can they make?
They can make groups of 2, 3, 4, 6 so they can make 4 different groups.
100
Is the number one prime or composite? Is the number two prime or composite? Is the number three prime or composite?
1 - neither 2 - prime 3 - prime
200
Nine thousand, seven hundred niney-nine seagulls were trying to attack me and my french fries. Rounded to the nearest tens, about how many seagulls were trying to steal my delicious fries?
9,800 crazy birds
200
Place these decimals in order from least to greatest. 6.078; 0.6078; 0.0678; 0.6678 Mrs. Strawhorn is sorting socks. The length, in inches, of each sock is shown below. blue sock 33.36 purple sock 33. 87 black sock 33. 63 Write a number sentence that compares the shortest sock to the longest sock.
0.0678; 0.6078; 0.6678; 6.078 33.36 > 33.87
200
Mrs. Strawhorn earned $45 dollars at a bake sale. She then spent $4.99 on a chocolate cake, $2.03 on a batch of cookies, and $7.00 on a pan of brownies. She decided to put the rest of the money in her piggy bank. How much money did she save.
$4.99 + $2.03 + $7.00 = $14.02 $45.00 - $14.02 = $30.98
200
A picnic basket holds enough food to feed 7 families. How many picnic baskets do you need to feed 407 families?
58.142857 Oh no - we can't have a part of a picnic basket (decimal). We need 59 picnic baskets.
200
What is the prime factorization of 28?
2 x 2 x 7 which is the same as 2 squared times 7
300
Using variables, show me the commutative property of multiplication and addition.
a + b = b + a a x b = b x a
300
On Monday Mrs. Strawhorn ate 76.54 donuts. On Tuesday she ate 34.2367 donuts. On Wednesday she ate 40.2 donuts. How many donuts did Mrs. Strawhorn eat?
150.9767 What is this rounded to the nearest tenth?
300
Finally, Toy Story 14 has been released and Mrs. Shifflet is treating everyone to the movie. The cost per ticket is $57.00 and there are 367 students going to the movie. How much money is Mrs. Shifflett going to have to pay for the movie tickets?
367 x $57 = $20,919.00 Wow - that sure is nice of her to treat everyone.
300
If 6 boxes had a total of 4,456,134 skittles, and each box had an equal number of skittles in it, how many skittles were in each box?
742,689
300
Mrs. Strawhorn ate 6,777 donuts. Mrs. Shifflett ate 345 donuts, and Mrs. Lopez ate 6,897 donuts. How many donuts did they eat all together.
14,019 donuts.
400
Write two expressions - one should show the identity property of multiplication. The other should show the zero property of multiplication. Both expressions should use variables.
a x 1 = a a x 0 = 0
400
Mrs. Strawhorn's weight of 136.8 pounds was 7.04 pounds greater that the last time she got on the scale. How much did she weigh last time?
129.76 pounds
400
If gasoline costs $2.869 per gallon and you need seven gallons of gas, how much will you have to pay for the gas?
$2.869 x 7 = $20.083 Oops - can't express money with 3 places past the decimal point so you need to round to the nearest cent: $20.08
400
Kylie and Delaney are making pretty bead necklaces for Christmas gifts. Each necklace will have 48 beads on it. The girls have 8756 beads. How many necklaces can they make with the beads?
8756 ÷ 48 =182.41666... They can only make 182 necklaces but will have some beads left over.
400
The measure of each side of the square house is equivalent to the square root of 81 feet. How long is one side of the square house?
9 feet.
500
Using variables, show me the associative property of addition and multiplication
(w + s) + r = w + (s + r) (w x s) x r = w x (s x r)
500
Mrs. Strawhorn drank 0.36 gallons of water. Ms. Eubanks drank 1.56 gallons of water. Mrs. Shifflett drank 1.6 gallons of water and Mrs. Taylor drank 1.06 gallons of water. Who drank the greatest amount of water?
Mrs. Shifflet
500
24 students are going to the Harvest party. It costs $24 dollars to get in the door. However, there is a special going on right now so everyone gets four dollars off the ticket price. Write an expression that represents the math process. I am NOT looking for an answer - just the problem you would need to do to solve it.
24 x (24 - 4) or (24 - 4) x 24
500
758469 ÷ 84 =
9029 R. 33
500
Solve: 65 + (98 - 24) x 7
65 + 74 x 7 = 65 + 518 = 583