Going Negative
What is −3 + 7?
4
In the number 7,482, what is the value of the digit 8?
80
What number comes next: 4, 8, 12, 16, …?
20
What is one half of 24?
12
How many sides does a hexagon have?
6
What is −12 − 5?
-17
Round 3,647 to the nearest hundred.
3,600
Count back in steps of 25 starting from 300. What is the third number you say?
225
Simplify the fraction 12/20.
3/5
A week has 168 hours. How many hours are in 2 weeks?
336 hours
Put these numbers in order from least to greatest: −4, 6, 0, −1.
-4, -1, 0, 6
Write 48,006 in words.
Forty-eight thousand and six
Spot the pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, … What is the rule?
Multiply by 2 each time
Write 0.75 as a fraction in simplest form.
3/4
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
The temperature was 5°C in the morning. By night it dropped 12 degrees. What is the temperature now?
−7°C
Which is greater: 12.09 or 12.9?
12.9
A sequence goes: 100, 97, 94, 91, … What is the 7th number?
82
Add: 2/5 + 3/10.
7/10
If yesterday’s tomorrow is Saturday, what day is today?
Friday
I am a number. When you add me to −15, the result is −3. What number am I?
12
I am thinking of a 4-digit number. When rounded to the nearest thousand, I become 5,000. When rounded to the nearest hundred, I become 4,700. What number could I be?
4,650–4,749
A snail climbs 5 cm up a wall each day but slips 2 cm back each night. How far does it climb in 4 days?
12 cm
A recipe needs 2/3 of a cup of sugar. You only have a 1/6 cup scoop. How many scoops do you need?
4 scoops
You have 3 boxes: one with apples, one with oranges, one with both. All labels are wrong. How can you figure out the correct labels by taking out just one fruit?
Pick from the box labeled “Apples and Oranges.” Whatever you get tells you what’s in that box. Then you can fix the other two.