Easy Stuff (maybe)
Harder Stuff (possibly)
What is this?
Way Too Hard Stuff
Who said what where?
100

The seventh grade class at Miami-Shores Middle School had to write an essay. Betsy wrote one with a hundred sixty-eight words, Sam wrote one with a hundred twenty-eight words, Bill wrote one with a hundred fifty-two words, Susanne wrote one with a hundred fifty-six words, and Jake wrote one with a hundred ninety-five words. What was the average number of words on all of the five essays?

160 (+400) 

100

Which could be the unit used to measure the height of a giraffe?

 grams, gallons, feet, pounds

feet (-400) 

100

Eric has a red pencil, an orange pencil, and a brown pencil. He also has a baseball eraser, a basketball eraser and a football eraser. How many different combinations of pencils and erasers can Eric make?

9  (-300) 

100

An airplane is flying towards a radar dish. Its distance from the dish (s) decreases at a rate of 400 miles per hour when s = 10 miles. How fast is the plane going?

500 mph (500) 

100

“Some people are worth melting for”

Olaf, Frozen (100)

200

Alex wants to find out how much his baseball collection is worth. By checking some internet resources, he finds that two cards are worth  $25.50 each, and his other card is worth $15.75. How much are these three cards worth altogether?

66.75 (-200) 

200

How many bones does a shark have?


Zero   (700) 

200

In the open sentence 3r = 33, the letter r represents -

variable  (1000) 

200

7 * 6

42  (-800) 

200

“You’re mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret, all the best people are”

 – Alice, Alice in Wonderland  (+300)

300

Cynthia needs 2 cups of sugar according to her recipe. She has 1/8 cup from the one container and ¾ cup from the second container. How much more does she need?

1 1/8    (+200) 

300

This triangle has an angle measuring 90°.  What type of triangle is this?

right  (600)

300

Dorothy ate 4 times the number of cookies her brother Ben ate. Ben ate 3 cookies. Which number sentence can be used to find out the number of cookies Dorothy ate?

4 * 3 = 12  (900)

300

What is your name?

   (-200) 

300

“Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free?”

Belle, Beauty and the Beast (-300)

400

Using the order of operations, which calculation should be done first to simplify this expression?

31 + 17 × (10 + 26) ÷ 3

10 + 26   (-500) 

400

What is 476.367 rounded to the nearest whole number?

476  (-700) 

400

How many eyes does a honey bee have?

Five (400) 

400

A rock is dropped into the center of a circular pond. The ripple moved outward at 4 m/s. How fast does the area change, with respect to time, when the ripple is 3m from the center?  Assume pi is 22/7.

288/7 m/s2 ( -900) 

400

“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten”

 Lilo, Lilo & Stitch (+500)

500

Debbie has made a cake and frosted the top and all sides but not the bottom of the cake. She cuts the cake into 9 pieces. How many pieces are frosted on only three sides?

4  (+100) 

500

A 16 oz box of pasta costs $1.20 and a 32 oz box of pasta costs $1.80. What is the unit cost for a 16 oz box of pasta?

$.075 per oz (-1000)

500

The cost for 50 bananas at the Sam’s grocery store is $10. If Sara wants to purchase only one banana, how much will it cost?

20 cents (800) 

500

6 * 3

18 ( 400)

500

“I don’t want to survive. I want to live”

Captain, WALL-E  ( -200)