Mental Math
What is the *magic* word that will tell you you need to estimate in a question?
What is about?
True or False: Ms. Farkas has gone skydiving in Hawaii.
What is true?
The first step of distributive property is to break the number up into its __________ form.
What is expanded?
What was Ms. Farkas' favorite sport to play when she was younger?
What is softball?
There are seven 4th grade classrooms that hold 24 students each. Write an equation that represents this problem, then solve.
What is 7 x 24 = x ? and What is 168 students?
What is Ms. Farkas' least favorite type of ice cream?
What is mint chocolate chip?
I bought an 6-roll package of toilet paper. Each roll has 98 papers.
Which is the best estimate for the total number of toilet papers I bought?
What is 600 toilet papers?
How could you use distributive property (breaking apart) to find 4 x 387? Write the equation.
What is (4 x 300) + (4 x 80) + (4 x 7)?
A hotel has 6 floors. If there are 115 room on each floor, how many total rooms are there in the hotel? Solve using partial products.
What is 690 floors?
What is Ms. Farkas' favorite color?
What is maroon?
What is Ms. Farkas' favorite food?
What is... everything... BUT... tacos?
Ms. Farkas ate 1,280 tacos in one week. About how many tacos did she eat in 8 weeks?
Draw an array that represents the equation 246 x 3.
What is 6 hundreds, 12 tens, 18 ones in total?
What are the partial products for 8 x 618?
What is 64 + 80 + 4,800?
The 4th grade teachers spend $2,542 a year for textbooks. How much do the teachers spend in 5 years?
What is $12,710?
Mrs. Graziano bakes brownies in batches of 10 and batches of 50. If she bakes 6 batches of 50 brownies,
how many brownies does she bake?
What is 300 brownies?
Ms. Quinby ate 5,089 bowls of mac and cheese in one year. How many did she eat in 4 years? Explain, in words, how you can check to see if your answer is reasonable.
In one year, she ate about 5,000 bowls of mac and cheese. So in 4 years, she ate about 20,000 bowls. 20,356 is close to 20,000, so my answer is reasonable.
What are two of Ms. Farkas' favorite things to learn about that she thinks are SO cool?
What is either dreams, the brain, or evolution?
What state did Ms. Farkas go to college in?
Hint: it was one of the New England Colonies!
What is Connecticut?
What is Ms. Farkas' favorite Halloween movie OR favorite Halloween song?
What is Halloweentown?
OR
What is The Monster Mash?
A bakery has 3 different kinds of muffins. The following numbers are the amount of muffins that can fit in one box to sell.
Chocolate Chip = 100, Blueberry = 200, Apple = 300
Answer the following questions:
4 boxes of Blueberry = __________ muffins
2 boxes of ________ = 600 muffins
7 boxes of Chocolate Chip = _______ muffins
4 boxes of Blueberry = 800 muffins
2 boxes of Apple = 600 muffins
7 boxes of Chocolate Chip = 700 muffins
Extra Credit: What bone was it?
What is true? What is her finger?
Draw an array that represents the problem 3 x 1,321. What are the partial products?
3 thousands, 9 hundreds, 6 tens, 3 ones.
3,000 + 900 + 60 + 3
True or False: Ms. Farkas was blind in her left eye when she was younger
What is true?
What is 53,804,952?