The number of pints in a gallon, the number of centimeters in a meter, and the number of grams in a kilogram.
What are 8, 100, and 1000?
100
The cost of a silk scarf with a price 7 times as much as the price of the $8.00 cotton one. (Write the number sentence to match your answer.)
What is 7 X 8 = 56 dollars?
100
The greatest and the least of these four fractions: 3/4, 2/7, 8/9, 4/6
What are 8/9 and 2/7?
100
1,234,648 rounded to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand.
What is 1,234,650; 1,234,600; and 1,235,000?
100
The name of a straight path containing one endpoint that extends forever in one direction. (Draw an example and label it.)
What is a ray?
200
The perimeter of a square closet with an area of 49 square feet.
What is 28 feet?
200
All the factors of 42. (Circle the prime factors.)
What are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42?
200
What you get when you put 5 1/4 inches, 2 1/2 inches, and 4 1/4 together. (Prove it with pictures or a ruler.)
What is 12 inches, or 1 foot?
200
How much further 8,203 miles is than 4,352 miles. (Show your work and use a strategy to check your accuracy.)
What is 3,851?
200
The classification of an angle that is greater than 90 degrees, but less than 180 degrees. (Draw an example, measure it, and label it.)
What is "obtuse"?
300
The length of time it took the turkey to roast. The turkey went in oven at 9:23 a.m. and came out at 3:17 p.m.
What is 5 hours and 55 minutes?
300
Proof that this story is, or is not, reasonable: On vacation the Jones family traveled 297 miles on the first day, 194 miles on the second day and 504 miles on the third day. The difference between miles traveled on the first and third days is 393 miles.
What is "not reasonable"?
Here is the proof:
297 miles is close to 300 hundred miles.
504 miles is close to 500 miles.
The difference between 500 and 300 is two hundred. The difference between the actual miles should be closer to 200 than 300 or 400.
300
Proof that the following number sentence is, or is not true:
4/6 = 12/18
What is "true"?
Can be proven by drawing pictures to compare, decomposing 4/6 into 12ths, or multiplying.
300
The number of candies in 9 bags of 645 candy corns. (Show your work. Use estimation to check the reasonableness of your answer.)
What is 6,805?
300
The category of the shapes containing two opposite pairs of parallel sides. (Draw an example.)
What is a paralellogram?
400
Jazmun will empty her 3 1/2 quart pitcher when she pours out this number of cups of juice.
What is 14 cups?
400
The difference between the number of pencils in 5 twelve packs, and and 4 eighteen packs.
What is 12 pencils?
400
The difference between 7 3/5 and 4 4/5. (Draw a picture to prove your answer).
What is 2 4/5?
400
The number of cars that can be completed when a shipment of 579 tires arrives at the factory.
What is 144 ? (There will be 3 extra tires, but they will not be enough to make another usable car.)
400
The name of the shape with 4 equal sides and 4 right angles. (Draw an example.)
What is a square?
500
An angle greater than 90 degrees made by combining an angle of 53 degrees and and angle of 79 degrees has this measure. (Draw and label to prove your answer.)
What is 132 degrees?
500
Proof that the following story is reasonable, or not reasonable: Mother sewed 63 wedding dresses last year. Each dress was fastened with 49 buttons running down the length of the back. The total number of buttons sewn was 817 buttons.
What is "not reasonable"? The proof is the following:
63 dresses is close to 60 dresses.
39 buttons is close to 40 buttons.
60 dresses with 40 buttons each would equal 2400 buttons. The total number of buttons should be somewhere between 2000 and 3000 buttons. An answer in the hundreds doesn't make sense.
500
The amount of pie that is eaten when 8 boys each eat 2/3 of a pie.
What is 16/3, or 5 1/3, pies?
500
75 times as many as 38.
What is 2,850?
500
The category of quadrangles containing exactly 1 pair of parallel sides (They may or may not have a pair of perpendicular sides.)