Exponents
Surface Area and Area and Misc.
Algebraic Expressions
Halloween Riddles
Math Class
100

This is the value of the expression (0.1)3? Show your work.

What is .001?

100

Tamera and her brother use washi paper to make lamps in the style of Japanese lanterns for their bedrooms. The expression 2s2 + 40s represents the surface area of a lantern where the base edges are s inches long. What is the surface area of a lantern when s is 9 in.?
Show your work.


What is 522 in^2?

100

This is the value of 2 + b(a^2 + 4) when a = 2 and b = 4.

What is 34?

100

I'm a ball, but I can't be kicked, thrown or tossed. What am I?

What is an eyeball? 

100

This is the date the Q2 math project is due.

What is December 4th? 

200

What is the value of the expression x^3 – 1,750 when x = 30? Show your work.

What is 25,250? 

200

There are 32 teams in the first round of a basketball tournament. One half of the teams that play in each round of the tournament move on to play in the  next round.  How many teams play in the fourth round? Show your work.

What is 4 teams? 

200

An architect is trying different dimensions for the room shown below. This is an algebraic expression the architect can use to find the area of the room. Then find the area when x is 6 m. Show your work.

What is x^2 + (3 x 4)? 

200

I have no feet to dance,
I have no eyes to see,
I have no life to live or die,
yet I do all three.
What am I?

What is fire? 

200
This is what you did to Mario. 

What is graph him? 

300

Write 38 as a power with a base of 9.
Show your work.

What is 9^4? 

300

What is the value of the expression
3[4(3^2 – 7)] – 4^2? Show your work.

What is 22,250? 

300

What is the value of m + 4n^2 – 5q + 4 when
m = 5, n = 2, and q = 3?

What is 10? 

300

With piercing force, I dole out fate
Over bloodless victims, I proclaim my might
I can eternally join with a single bite.
What am I?

What is Dracula or a stapler? 

300

This is what happens when you pass the pre-test. 

What is you work on Enrichment or your math project?

400

Evaluate the expression p^3 – q^4 + 3r /  2 for
p = 6, q = 2, and r = 4. Show your work.

What is 206? 

400

You can use the formula A = 6s2 to find the surface area of a cube with edge length s.
A cube has edges that are 10 in. long. What is the surface area of the cube? Show your work.

What is 600 in^2? 

400

What is the value of the expression 5(3^3 – 4)? Show your work

What 115?

400

You’re in a room and there’s a ghost in the room, but you are the only one in the room. How is this possible?

What is you are the ghost? 

400

This is what you should do when you work with a partner. 

What is collaboirate? 

500

Evaluate the expression 1^4 + 3(10 – 2)^2.
Show your work.

What is 193? 

500

Pala designs a character for a video game. She draws three sizes of the character on grid paper. Pala uses the expression 6 + s2 to find

the number of grid squares in a character of any size s. Find the number of grid squares in a character of size 7. Show your work.

What is 55 grid squares? 

500

What is the value of the expression 5(2^3 – 3)? Show your work.

What is 25? 

500

Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

What is nothing? 

500

This is the number of math books we will finish this year. 

What is 3?