Exponents and Radicals DUDE !
Classifying Numbers
Word Problems
Scientific Notation and Calculation
Turkey Trivia
100

The Square root of 81

What is 9 ?


Since 9*9 is 81, then 8 is the square root.

100

The number 1 is classified as this.

What is Natural Numbers, Whole Numbers, integer, Rational, and Real !

100

Mrs. Fisher purchased a turkey at $1.50 a pound.

Use the total cost of $18.00 to determine the number of pounds of turkey purchased.

What is 12 pounds ?


1.50 X = $18.00

X = 18.00 / 1.50

X = 12

100

46 million Turkeys eaten on Thanksgiving day.  Change this number to scientific Notation: 



What is 4.6 x 10^7


Starting at the decimal between the 4 and 6, count decimal places from our starting point to the end of the big number, 46 million.

100

The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to take them to Plymouth, Massachusetts

What is the Mayflower ?

200

This is 2^3


(This is "Two" to the "Third power")

What is 8 ?


2*2*2 = 4 *2 = 8

200

The number - 15 is classified as the following.

What is an integer, Rational and Real Number

200

A School Bus is 25 feet long and 7.5 feet wide.  Determine the length of ladder needed to reach the roof hatch if you needed to escape.

What is approximately 26.1 feet long ?

Use Pythagorean Theorem where a = 25   b = 7.5

and c is the length of the ladder.

200

On average, 2.5 x 10^3 to 4.5 x 10^3 calories 

are consumed Thanksgiving Day.  Find your answer without Assistance.

What is 2500 to 4500 Calories.

200

This U.S. President proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday ?

Who is Abraham Lincoln ?

  • Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on October 3, 1863. Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” convinced Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday after writing letters for 17 years.
300

-1 * (Square Root of 25)

What is (-5) ?


The negative is outside the parenthesis, so make sure you have a negative answer.

300

A square root of a negative number is this number.

What is Not Real !
300

Mr. Fisher has finished building his dream man cave in the basement and wants to determine the width he can project video games on the wall to the nearest whole number.  He knows the diagonal will have a length of 114.6 inches with a height of 56 inches.

The width of the projection will be 100 inches.

A^2 + 56^2 = (114.6)^2

A^2 + 3136 = 13,133.16

A^2 = 9997.16

A = 99.98 inches = 100 inches

300
On average, people will buy 3 million pounds of mashed potatoes to eat on Thanksgiving Day. This number can be written in Standard Form.

What is 3,000,000,000

300

This is the First President to Pardon a Turkey !

Who is John F. Kennedy

400

This is the Square Root of 1 + 3 - 4^2

"This is the Square Root of one plus 3 minus 4 to the second power !"


=1 + 3 - 4 ^2

= 1 + 3 - (4 * 4)

= 1 + 3 - 16

=4 - 16  = 12

400

The square root of 36 is classified as this number.

What is Natural, Whole, Integer, Rational, and Real.

400

The U.S. produces 16.4 times the amount of meat produced by its neighbor, Canada.  Determine the amount of turkey U.S. produces if Canada produces 155 tons of Turkey meat.

What is 2542 tons of Turkey in the U.S.?


155 tons in Canada x 16.4 = 2542 tons

400

People learned to make fire about 5 x 10^5 years ago.

Determine what how many years it is in standard form.

What is 500,000 Years ago !

400

This is the number of Pilgrim women who were at the first Thanksgiving.


Hint:  [(10-2) +2^2 ]/3

What is   4 ?

[(10-2) +2^2 ]/3

=[(8) + (2*2)]/3

= (8+4) /3 = 12/3 = 4

500
This is the square root of 441.

What is 21 ?


Remember 21 * 21 is the same is 441

500

25 to the Zero Power can be classified as this type of number.

What is One !

500

Use the information to order from lowest to highest percentage of pies eaten after dinner.

7/50 = Pecan Pie

57/100 = Pumpkin Pie

0.09= Sweet Potato

1/5 = Other Pies

What is from lowest to highest:

Sweet Potato Pie (9%)

Pecan Pie (14%)

Other Pies (20%)

Pumpkin Pie (57%)

How do you change a fraction to a percent ?

7/50 = 7 divided by 50 = 0.14  which is 14%

500

Helios B, an imaginary space ship, travels at a rate of approximately 140,000 miles per hour.  Determine how far it would travel in 7 hours, 30 minutes.

What is 1,050,000 Miles ?


(1.4 x 10^5) * (7.5)

Multiply 1.4 and 7.5 and have 10^5 multiplied after your answer.


500

Name of the Red, Loose skin under a Turkey's Neck.

What is a Wattle  ?