Number Sense
Every Saturday little Brown 7th grader Jessica runs 2 and 1/6 of a mile. If Jessica runs for 3 months, how many miles did she run?
a) 32 b)26 c) 19and1/3 d) 44
What is (b) 26 miles
There are 12 Saturdays in 3 months.
12 x 13/6 = 26 miles!
8th grade theater arts girl Kayla wants to know if a photograph is dilated by a scale factor of 2.
The original photo is 3 by 7. What will the new photo perimeter be?
A. 14 B. 18 C. 40 D. 30
c) 40
Scaled it's 6 x 14. It asks for the perimeter. So, 6 + 6 + 14 + 14 = 40
Swimmer Sam swam 30 laps per day for the first 6 days of swim practice. He swam 40 laps per day for the next 4 days of practice. What was the mean number of laps that Hunter swam per day for these 10 days? a) 22 laps b) 44 laps c) 34 laps d) 43 laps
34 laps
To find the mean, add the totals for each day. 30 x 6. That's 180. Add that to 40 x 4 and that's 160. 180 + 160 = 340. Now divide that by the total of days, which was 10 days.
What word is defined by: a number's distance from zero on the number line?
a) hypotenuse b) hippopotamous c) absolute value d) pythagorean e) integer
c) Absolute Value
What should gamer Matthew do the night before the math STAAR test?
a) Play video games b) Go to bed early
c) Text his friends til 2am and make a tik tok about how to slide down the handrail at Brown backwards.
b) go to bed early
Mr. B. wants you to calculate the following. 8 - (-5 + 3 x 7)
What should your answer be?
a) 46 b)12 c)34 d) -8
What is (d) -8
Remember PEMDAS
(-5 + 3 x 7) = 16
8 - 16 = -8
Nice guy Noah knows two of the angle measures of triangle PQR. Angle Q is 75 degrees and angle R is 51 degrees.
What is the measure of angle P?
54 degrees
75 + 51 = 126
We have to subtrace that from 180 (degrees). When we do the answer is 54.
In old Mr. B.'s class, there are 8 boys and 12 girls. If old (but nice) Mr. B. selects 1 student from his class at random, what is the probability that the student will be a girl?
a)4/5 b)3/5 c)2/3 d)12/22
b) 3/5
because the question asks for the probability it will be a girl picked. There are 12 girls out of 20 total students. That's 3/5.
The number or element that occurs most frequently in a set of data is:
a) Mean b) Mode. c) Median d) Range
B. Mode
What should Jaqueline, a wanna be You Tube star, do the morning of the math STAAR test?
a) Wake up late b) Miss the bus c) Eat a good breakfast d) Invite her friends over to make some videos
c) eat a good breakfast
Chelsie owed her brother $200.
Her brother told her just pay her 30% of the $600. How much should she give him? a)$250 b)$180 c)190 d) $200
b) $180
600 x .3 = 180
Friends Amy & Jon compared their total bowling scores. Jon's total score was 109 points greater than Amy's total score. Write an expression that represents Amy's total score based on J, Jon's total score.
a) J - 109 b) 109 + J c) m + J = 109
a) J - 109
because Amy bowled 109 points lower than John.
The area of a square we will call "Mr. Square" is 49 square inches. What is the length of one side of "Mr. Square"? Make sure to label your answer in inches!
7 inches
because the area of a square is L x W.
7 x 7 = 49. One side is 7.
What is a two-dimensional plan that can be folded to make a three-dimensional model of a solid?
a) sphere b) rhombus c) net d) diagram
(c) Net
When bubbling in answers in the open ended questions, does Timmy from Brown Middle School need the zero to the right of the decimal?
a) Yes, because he is Opposite Dude. b) Yes, because he really likes bubbling. c) No
c) no
Hungry Mason ate 3/4 of a pound of beef for lunch. For dinner he ate another 1 and 1/2 lbs. of beef. He was a hungry dude.
How much did now Massive Mason eat altogether?
The answer is 2 1/4 lbs of beef.
3/4 + 6/4 (converted from 3/2)= 2 1/4
Hungry dude Mason eats too much.
Ashley is paid $12 per hour at her job. When she drives her car for work she is paid an additional 32.5 cents per mile. The following expression can be used to find the amount she is paid, in dollars, when she works h hours and drives m miles in her car: 12 h + 0.325m
How much is Ashley paid when she works 3.5 hours and drives 100 miles in her car? a)$74.50 b) $84.50 c)$ 94.50 d) 64.50
a) $74.50
$12 x 3.5hrs = $42
.325 cents a mile x 100 miles = $32.50
Add them together and you get $74.50
Little Baby Billy (he's very smart!) wrote a set of three numbers: The mean of her set is 8 The range of her set is 14 Which of the following could be Little Baby Billy's set of numbers? a) 2, 8, 14 b) 4, 6, 18 c) 2, 6, 16 d) 6, 8, 10
c) 2, 6, 16
Remember, the RANGE is 14, so the set's first and last numbers need to be 14 apart. The MEAN is the total of your numbers (2.6.16) divided by the quantity of numbers, 3.
What do we call the set of all numbers that cannot be expressed as finite or repeating decimals?
a) all real numbers b) negatives c) decimals d) irrational numbers e) the set of all numbers that cannot be expressed as finite or repeating
d) Irrational Numbers
What should Amazing 7th grader Amayah, or you, NEVER do on a multiple choice question you or she does not know the answer to?
a) answer b) leave it blank
b) Leave it blank - even if you or Amayah do not know the answer, make an educated guess because you have a 25% chance of getting it right. It will be wrong if you leave it blank.
Dixie from Dallas bought skates marked $69.95. The rate of sales tax is 5%.
How much will Dixie from Dallas have to pay to purchase the skates?
$73.45
69.95 x .05 = 3.50 in tax
Add 69.95 and 3.50 to get 73.45
Football-loving Fred has a rectangular field that has a length of 30 feet and a width of 40 feet.
What is the length of a diagonal of the field? a) 70ft b) 50 ft c) 60 ft d) 85 ft
b) 50 feet
Pythagorean theorem says A2 + B2 = C2 One side is is 30, so that's 900. The other is 40, so that's 1600. Total 2500. The square root of 2500 is 50.
Professor Paul has a shipping box in the shape of a rectangular prism. It has a length of 12 inches, a width of 6 inches and its volume is 288 cubic inches. What is the height, in inches, of Professor Paul's shipping box?
a) 5 inches b) 3 inches c) 4 inches d) 7 inches
c) 4 inches
because L x W x H = Volume
In this case, we need to figure out the height. I took 288/12 and divided it again by 6.
Define hypotenuse. And don't say this big animal I saw at the zoo when I was nine.
a) the longest side b) leg labelled "a"
c) shorter leg of a triangle d) this big animal I saw at the zoo when I was nine
A) The longest side
The side of a right triangle that is opposite the right angle. It is also the longest side of a right triangle.
What should you always remember to do at the end of your STAAR test?
a) raise your hand b) read a book c) sleep d) review your answers
d) review your answers