Would I measure my couch in ounces or pounds? Prove your answer.
Pounds
Johnny's family doctor suggested that he drink 8 cups of water each day. If Johnny follows his doctor’s advice, how many cups of water will he drink in one week?
56 cups
The school goal is to read 1000 hours in the month of March. The third grade read 198 hours so far. The second grade read 36 hours less. How many hours did the second grade read?
162 hours
Marsha and Benjamin are playing football. They kept score below. How many more points did Marsha score than Benjamin?
4 more points
Would I measure my toothbrush in ounces or pounds? Prove your answer.
Ounces
Mrs. Ingle set a goal to drink 63 cups of water in one week. She drank 37 cups of water by Thursday. How many cups does she have left to drink by the end of the week?
26 cups
Mrs. Ingle was cleaning out her classroom. She found 298 pieces of constriction paper in the teacher closet, 376 pieces in the big closet, and 183 pieces in the cabinets. How many pieces of construction paper did she find in all?
857 pieces
One box of paper clips has 100 paper clips inside. Mrs. Smith has 3 boxes of paper clips in her drawer. She used 176 paper clips to hang up student work in the hallway. How many paper clips does she have left?
124 paper clips
Barrett drew a shape with 4 sides. There were only right angles. Name 1 possible shape he could have drawn. Be specific.
Square, rectangle
My entire bed together weighs 282 pounds. The mattress weighs 95 pounds. How much does the bed frame weigh?
187 pounds
Julia makes a special party punch for her birthday every year. There are 6 people at her party each year. The table below shows the ingredients she uses for 1 pitcher of party punch. A pitcher makes 3 servings.
How many cups of punch will she make if she makes 4 pitchers of punch?
24 cups of ingredients
116 hours
Ms. Downing has 73 snacks in her snack cabinet. Her students are 15 on Monday, 10 on Tuesday, 13 Wednesday, 18 Thursday. How many are left for Friday?
17 snacks
Ms. Downing was growing plans. Every day, her bamboo plant got 3 new leaves, her rose bush got 4 new leaves and her hydrangea got 2 new leaves. How many new leaves were there in one week?
63 new leaves
2 bags of potting soil that weigh 25 pounds each
5 terracotta pots that weigh 3 pounds each
How much weight am I pushing around total (including the cart)?
77 pounds
Julia makes a special party punch for her birthday every year. There are 6 people at her party each year. The table below shows the ingredients she uses for 1 pitcher of party punch. A pitcher makes 3 servings.How many pitchers will she need if each friend drinks 2 servings of punch?
4 pitchers of punch
Ms. Downing does yoga for 25 minutes every morning plus an extra 20 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. How many minutes of yoga does she do in one week?
215 minutes
The school had 548 kickballs. 139 of them rolled over the fence, 23 of them popped. Then the school bought 100 more. How many kickballs are there now?
486 kickballs
Ms. Downing was giving out pencils during class. She had 3 boxes of pencils. Each box had 8 pencils. She gave away 6 pencils. How many pencils dos she have left?
18 pencils
Mrs. Smith was putting up a shelf in her laundry room. The shelf can hold 78 pounds of weight before it falls on top of her brand new washer and dryer. She puts on it the following items:
1 container of laundry detergent weighing 16 pounds
2 containers of cat liter weighing 12 pounds each
7 boxes of dryer sheets each weighing 2 pounds each
1 box of winter blankets weighing 30 pounds
Will her shelf fall? How many pounds is she over/under?
Fall- she is 6 pounds over the maximum weight
Julia makes a special party punch for her birthday every year. There are 6 people at her party each year. The table below shows the ingredients she uses for 1 pitcher of party punch. A pitcher makes 3 servings. Each person at the party drinks 2 servings of punch. How many cups of orange juice will Julia need to buy?
8 cups
Because it is spring time and warming up, Lowes is selling a lot of plants. Last week, they sold 924 plants. On each day Sunday- Thursday they sold 100 plants. On Friday they sold 276. How many did they sell on Saturday?
148 plants
There were 600 Smarties in Ms. Downing's candy drawer. Each pack of Smarties has 12 candies. If she gives away 20 packs of smarties, how many are left in her candy drawer?
360 Smarties
The third grade teachers were having a race. The graph below shows how far they each ran in miles.
Who ran the furthest?
Duncan and Ingle