Basic Skills Practice and Fun!

Negative #s

100

5 + (-2)

3

200

-8 - (-3)

-5

300

10 + (-4) - (-2)

8

400

-3*(2)*(-4)

24

500

(12 + ( - 20 ) / (-4)

2

Fractions

100

3/8 + 5/8

8/8 or 1

200

3/7 * 4/5

12/35

300

1/6 + 2/3 + 1/4

 13/12 or 1 1/12

400

7/8 - 1/4 + 1/2

5/8

500

5/6 + 1/4 * 2/3

12/12 or 1

Rounding

100

Round this number to the hundreds place. 

398

400

200

Round this number to the tenths place.

123.543 

123.5

300

Round this number to the ten thousandth

1.33367

1.3337

400

Add these numbers, then round the result to the thousandths place

3.324 + .0008

3.325

500

Subtract these two numbers, then round the answer to the thousandths place

.3770 - .0007

.3760

Equations

100

Solve for x

3x = 18

x = 6

200

Solve for x

2x + 4 = 20

x = 8

300

Solve for x

20/x = 4

x = 5

400

(4x+20)/6= 8

7

500

x² - x - 12 = 0

x = (-3, 4)

Bonus

100

What is the longest running river in the continental United States?

Mississippi river

200

What were the last two states added to the United States? (hint: neither are part of the continental US)

Alaska and Hawaii.  Both became states in 1959.  

300

US presidents traditionally serve 2 terms.  Which US president served 4 terms? (hint: he was president during the Great Depression and World War II)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).  After FDR died in his fourth term, an amendment was made to the constitution formally limiting the number of terms a US president may serve to two.  

400

What American war took place between the Revolutionary and Civil wars that resulted in the annexation of California, New Mexico, and Arizona to the USA and the creation of the state of Texas?

The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848

500

This dictator, the first of his kind in Europe, was a general in the army of the French Revolution.  He was also responsible for a war across Europe the results of which came to define 19th century European politics.  

Napoleon Bonaparte.