Identify the Strategy
If six people met at a party and all shook hands with one another, how many handshakes would be exchanged?
Draw a Diagram
Carlos had 8 points durring a basketball game. You can either score 3 points, 2 points, or 1 point. How many ways could Carlos have gotten 8 points?
Systematic List
A worm is at the bottom of a 12 foot wall. Every day he crawls up 3 feet but slides down 2 while he's sleeping. How many days will it take him to get to the top?
10 Days
0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ___, ___, ___,
12, 14, 16
There are between 75 and 125 cars in the parking lot. If 1/4 are red and 1/9 are Ford how many cars are in the parking lot?
Eliminate Possibilities
Convert 61 Meters to Feet
Analysis Units
Justin has some nickels, quarters, and dimes. How many ways could he make 50 cent
10 Ways
The cost of a basketball after the tax rate of 8% was 23.45. What was the original cost of the basketball before tax?
$21.71
Clues might be: Sara and Jason play on the same Volleyball team or AJ likes playing video games.
Use Matrix Logic
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13...
Look for a pattern
The product of a whole number is 360 and their sum is less then 100. How many ways could this happen?
9
3, 8, 15, 24, 35, __, __, __
48, 63, 80
The product of two whole numbers is 360, and their sum is less than 100. What are the possibilities for the two numbers?
Systematic List
There are 9 men for every 10 women at University of Kevin. If there are 26,239 students total how many students are women?
Guess and Check
Juan threw 5 darts at a dart board and recorded his ending scores. the possible scores are 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. Which (more than 1) of these scores are not possible: 38, 23, 58, 42, or 14 (Don't over think it)
23 and 58
Matthew eats an average of 3,000 calories a day. Over the course of a year how many pounds of fat be put on (assuming he did not burn any calories)
1 lbs of fat equals 3,500 Calories
312.857 pounds
A worm is at the bottom of a 12 ft wall. Every day the worm crawls up 3 feet but slips down 2 feet every night. How many days will it take for the worm to get over the wall?
Draw a picture
NELSON+CARSON=REWARD
N=5
Eliminate Possibilities
Drew, Diego, Dean, and Dominick all go to Pepperland Preschool. They each have a different teacher (Mr. Lennon, Mr. McCart, Mr. Harrison, or Mr. Starr) who makes his students color in one of the following colors: blue, red, yellow, or orange. Your job is to match each student with their teacher and then match that with the color the teacher makes his class write in. Good luck!
1. Dominick must color in blue.
2. Mr. Lennon doesn't like blue or orange.
3. Mr. Starr tells his students to color in yellow.
4. Drew's teacher is Mr. Harrison.
5. Diego is coloring according to Mr. Starr's directions.
1. Drew's teacher is Mr. Harrison, who is making his class color in orange.
2. Diego's teacher is Mr. Starr, who is making his class color in yellow.
3. Dean's teacher is Mr. Lennon, who is making his class color in red.
4. Dominick's teacher is Mr. McCart, who is making his class color in blue.
Convert 60 miles per hour to meters per second (1 inch = .0254 meters)
26.82 meters per second