Reindeer
The number of reindeer that pull Santa’s sleigh.
What is 9?
Each of Santa's reindeer has an elf looking after them, to keep them 100% healthy as Christmas eve approaches. How many elves would this be?
What is 9
If Santa eats 2 cookies at each house and there are 20 houses in my neighborhood, how many cookies will Santa eat in my neighorhood?
What is 40?
2x20= 40
The family has a twelve foot ceiling in their living room. Their Christmas tree is seven feet tall. How much extra space do they have?
Five feet
12 – 7 = 5
The kids in Mr. Miller’s class wrote letters to Santa. If there were 12 girls and 9 boys in the class, how many letters were sent to Santa?
What is 21?
12 + 9 = 21
The total number of hooves that pull the sleigh?
What is 36?
Santa has a new assistant elf each day of December, for a total of this many assistants
What is 31?
Ms. Moe make 3 batches of gingerbread cookies for the school play. Each batch makes 24 cookies. How many cookies did she make?
What is 72 cookies?
24x3= 72
Mom put 25 candy canes on the Christmas tree. Ben ate four, and Callie ate three. How many candy canes are left on the tree?
What is 18?
4+3=7
25-7=18
Santa is having a Christmas party for all of the elves. He made four cheese pizzas, three Hawaiian pizzas, six sausage pizzas, and eight pepperoni pizzas. How many pizzas did Santa make for the party?
What is 21?
4 + 3 + 6 + 8 = 21
If Reindeer eat 6 barrels of oats a day, how many will they eat in a week?
What is 42?
Only elves that are at least 42" tall can help decorate the North Pole's Christmas tree. How tall (in feet & inches) must the elves be?
What 3 feet 6 inches
42/12= 3' 6"
Ms. Moe makes 34 snowman sugar cookies for the math intervention groups. Each snowman cookie has 2 eyes, a big smile, and 3 mini chocolate chip buttons. How many mini chocolate chips did she use?
What is 102 mini chocolate chips?
34 x 3 = 102
Janie has 12 boxes of ornaments for her tree. In each box, there are 12 ornaments. While unpacking them, her dog broke three ornaments. How many ornaments are let?
141 ornaments
12 x 12 = 144
144 – 3 = 141
Zane has $227 to do his Christmas shopping. He needs $179 to buy gifts for his family and $117 to buy gifts for his friends . How many more dollars does Zane need to do his shopping?
What is $49
$247 - $179 = $68
$117 - 68 = $49
From Wilmington NC to Barstow CA is 2557 miles (I-40). If Santa’s Reindeers can fly 684 miles per hour, how long would it take them to fly from the East Coast to the West Coast.
What is 3.7 hours?
[2557/684=3.7]
The elves are responsible for loading Santa's sleigh, which can carry a maximum weight of 1 ton. How many pounds is this?
What is 2000?
There are 34 students in the 4th and 5th grade math intervention groups, they each eat 2 sugar cookies, 2 gingerbread cookies, 3 peanut butter kiss cookies, and 1 chocolate chip cookie Christmas break week. How many cookies did that eat all together?
What is 272?
2 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 8
8 x 34 = 272
Sarah counted 639 lights on the Christmas tree at the mall. Which number is in the tens place?
What is 3?
639
Addison wants a new MacBook Air. It costs $1200 (including sales tax and warrenty). She has $846 saved up. She needs money more in order to purchase that MacBook Air. She has a job babysitting for her neighbors. She gets paid $8 an hour. Since school is out she can work 5 hours a day. How many hours will she need to work in order to purchase the MacBook Air?
What is 9 days?
$1200 - $846 = $354
$8 x 5 = $40
$354 / $40 = 8.85 or 9 days.
If each reindeer eats a 16 oz of Reindeer Oats each day, how many pounds will they eat in a week.
What is 63 pounds?
[16x9=144, 144x7=1008, 1008/16=63]
Santa's oldest elf is 4 centuries, 3 decades, and 2 years old. In years, how old is this elf?
What is 432?
4 centuries = 400, 3 decades = 30, 2 years = 2
There are 520 students at GES. Ms. Moe makes 8 gross cookies for lunch. Will each student get 2 cookies at lunch? [Remember a gross is 12 x 12.) If yes, how many will be left over? If no, how many will each child get and how many will be left over?
Yes. There will only be 1,152 cookies. Each student will get 2 cookies with 112 cookies left over.
12 x 12 = 144; 144 x 8 = 1,152; 520 x 2 = 1,040; 1,152 - 1,040 = 112
Suzie wants to decorate the trees in her yard. There are 8 medium trees and 4 small trees. Each medium tree needs a string of 300 light blubs and each small tree needs a string of 150 lights blubs. How many light blubs will be on Suzie's trees?
What is 3,000?
300 x 8 = 2400
150 x 4 = 600
2,400 + 600 = 3,000
If you can sing a Christmas song together, what will you get?
500 points!