Vocabulary
Two Step Equations
Teasers & Riddles
Mean & Median
More Math Teasers & Riddles
100
The answer to a subtraction problem.....

Difference

100

10= 5m + 10

m = 0

100

What room do ghosts avoid?

The living room

100

To find the average of a set of data you find the _____

Mean

100

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Footsteps

200

You have to write it as a ratio in terms of a fraction

Probability

200

7 = 4 - 2y

y = -3/2

200

When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?

In the dictionary.

200
When you have to find the middle number for a set of data you have to find the ______

MEDIAN

200

What has a head, a tail, is brown and has no legs?

A penny

300

The answer to an addition problem......

Sum

300

3x + 4 = 15

x = 11/3

300

What has many keys but can't open a single door?

A piano

300

Find the MEDIAN

13, 18, 13, 14, 13, 16, 14, 21, 13

MEDIAN = 14

300


3

400

Another name for a box & whiskers plot

five-number summary

box plot

400

30 = 2b - 10

b = 20

400

You live in a one storey house made "entirely of redwood". What color would the stairs be?

What stairs? You live in a one storey house!!

400

Find the MEAN (round to nearest tenth!)

4, 5, 78, 24, 0, 14, 59

MEAN = 26.3

400

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!!!

500

When you set two ratios equal to each other

Proportion

500

5x - 2n = 39

n = 13

500

What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

Your name!

500

Find both the MEAN & MEDIAN for the data set:


78, 66, 82, 89, 75, 74

MEAN = 77.3

MEDIAN = 76.5

500

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter "m"