A Native American traded 956 furs with a French fur trader. What is the value of the digit 5?
What is 5 tens or 50.
100
The school cafeteria has 37,422 different lunch combinations. What is 37,422 rounded to the nearest thousand?
What is 37,000.
100
Write an equivalent fraction for 3/4.
What is 6/8; 9/12; 12/16; 15/20; 30/40; etc.
100
Light bulbs come in packages of 10. Niskayuna ordered 300 light bulbs to start the school year. How many packages were ordered?
What is 30 packages.
100
An Iroquois tribe collected 8/5 basket of corn.
Write a mixed number that shows how much corn they collected.
What is 1 3/5.
200
The Dutch cut down 106,742 tress to build New Netherlands. What is 106,742 written in word form?
What is one hundred six thousand, seven hundred forty-two.
200
In one day, owls produce 2,062 owl pellets in New York State. Write an estimate that shows about how many owl pellets are produced in 7 days.
What is about 14,000 owl pellets.
200
Dan wrote 4/8 - 3/8 = 7/8.
Is he correct? Explain your answer.
What is no.
Dan added 4/8 and 3/8 to get 7/8, instead of subtracting
4/8 - 3/8. Dan should have written 1/8.
200
John can type 36 words in a minute. How many words can he type in 9 minutes?
What is 324 words.
200
A class walked 0.3 km to the state museum. Write the fraction equivalent to 0.3.
What is 3/10.
300
The number 456,972 is on a poster. The number 455,723 is on another poster. Write a statement about these numbers using >, <, or =.
What is 455,723 < 456,972.
300
There were 10 boats on the Erie Canal. There were a total of 361 people on the 10 boats. About how many people were on each boat?
What is about 40 people.
300
A boat traveled 3/12 of the Erie Canal from Albany to Buffalo. What fraction of the canal did the boat travel in simplest form?
What is 1/4.
300
Henry Hudson and his crew ate 55 pieces of hard tack each day. If they traveled for 37 days, how many pieces of hard tack did they eat?
What is 2,035 pieces of hard tack.
300
Detective Sand read 68 out of 100 pages in his Mystery Matter book. Write a decimal that represents the part of the book Detective Sand read.
What is .68.
400
A Niskayuna teacher wrote a row of numbers following a pattern.
85, 79, 82, 76, 79, 73, 76
What should the next number be? State the rule.
What is 70.
Rule: -6, +3
400
A total of 42 British redcoats marched across the Saratoga battle field. They each marched 21 steps. Explain how you would estimate the total number of steps the soldiers marched in all.
What is 40 x 20 = about 800 steps.
400
Samuel de Champlain and his crew ate 4/7 of their food supply. What fraction of their food supply do they have left?
What is 3/7.
400
Toni made 8 batches of brownies. She used 96 m&m's to decorate all of the brownies. Each batch has the same number of m&m's on it. How many m&m's were used for each batch?
What is 12 m&m's.
400
A Niskayuna classroom was 20 feet long and 5 feet wide.
What is the area of the room?
What is 100 square feet.
500
List all of the common factors of 12 and 48.
What is 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
500
Your teacher cut 47 pieces of copper wire for you to build circuits. Each circuit needs four wires. There are 11 children in the class. Is there enough copper wire?
Show your work and explain your answer.
What is Yes.
11 children x 4 wires = 44 wires needed.
There are 47 pieces of copper wire.
500
Each day, Juan eats 1/4 of a pizza for breakfast, and 3/4 of a pizza for lunch. How many days will it take Juan to eat 2 whole pizzas?
Show your work and explain your answer.
What is 2 days.
1/4 + 3/4 = 1 whole pizza each day.
500
Jacques Cartier wrote a log of his journey that was 210 pages. If he wrote 9 pages each day, could he finish the log in 18 days?
Show your work and explain your answer.
What is no, he could not finish the log in 18 days.
210 divided by 9 = 23 remainder 3. Cartier would need 24 days to finish the log.
500
An inclined plane is 36 inches tall.
How tall is it in feet?