In Seattle, it snowed 1.75 inches on Monday and 2.3 inches on Tuesday.
How many inches of snow had fallen after the two days?
4.05 inches
There were 16,297.035 pounds of candy canes sold last year in December.
What is the place value of the 5 in the number above?
thousandths
The littlest elf is still in school and needs help remembering some of his math.
When finding the least common denominator for fractions, do you need to find the greatest common factor of the denominators or the least common multiple?
LCM
1 ¼ cups
Your cookie recipe calls for ½ cup of chocolate chips and ¾ cup of M&Ms. How many cups of candy do you need in all?
1 ¼ cups
Toys cannot be shipped with fraction weights. Convert the weight of this toy car to a decimal so it can be delivered!
4/5 pounds
0.8 pounds
To bake your favorite holiday candy cookies, you need 2.5 cups of M&Ms, 1.75 cups of chocolate chips, 0.8 cups of Reeces Pieces, and 3.64 cups of Hershey Kisses. How many cups of candy do you need in all?
8.69 cups
Two snowmen were made in the same yard. The first snowman was 4.33 feet tall, and the second snowman was 4.303 feet tall. Which snowman is taller?
First Snowman
The reindeer are trying to determine the least common multiple of 6 and 9.
Prancer thinks it’s 3
Dancer thinks it’s 54
and Dasher thinks it’s 18
Who is correct?
Dasher - 18
Toy trains take 1 ¾ hours to make.
Baby dolls take 1 5/6 hours to make.
Which takes the longest to make?
Baby dolls
Convert the following fractions to decimals, then order them from least to greatest.
2/3 , 5/6 , 1/4 , 2/5
0.25, 0.33, 0.4, 0.83
Two of the elves are having trouble with their math homework. They can’t decide on the correct answer to this problem.
14.12 – 4.7
Elf A thinks the answer is 13.65
Elf B thinks the answer is 9.42
Who is correct?
Elf B
Elf A weighs 35.5 pounds
Elf B weighs 35.05 pounds
Elf C weighs 35.505 pounds
Put their weights in order from least to greatest.
35.05, 35.5, 35.505
Help! Rudolph is about to take his math test – Santa wants to make sure his mind is sharp before the big trip! He’s needs help on just one problem. What is the greatest common factor among 18 and 72?
18
Of all the things on Sally’s wish list –
¼ are clothes
2/3 are toys
The rest are video games.
What fraction of the things on her wish list are video games?
1/12
The North Pole made 4/5 as many wagons this year than last year.
What is 7/5 written as a decimal?
0.8
Frosty the Snowman accidentally put too many marshmallows in his hot chocolate. He used 10.3 ounces of marshmallows and took 1.25 ounces out. How many ounces of marshmallows did he leave in his hot chocolate?
9.05 ounces
Dasher and Dancer are having an argument. Dasher thinks that FOUR AND FOUR-THOUSANDTHS is greater than FOUR AND FOUR HUNDREDTHS. Dancer thinks it’s the other way around. Who is right?
Dancer!
4.04 > 4.004
Frosty seems to think that LCM stands for “Love Cookies & Milk.”
Silly Frosty! What does LCM really stand for?
Common
Johnny Elf lives 1 ½ miles from the North Pole.
Jacob Elf lives 2 ¾ miles from the North Pole.
How much further does Jacob Elf live from the North Pole than Johnny Elf does?
1 ¼ miles
Convert 21/5 to a decimal.
4.2
The snowfall totals for a small town in South Dakota are recorded below.
Day 1 – 1.73 inches
Day 2 – 3.045 inches
Day 3 – 9.6 inches
Day 4 – 11.2 inches
What is the difference between the greatest amount of snow and the least amount of snow?
9.47 inches
You need to mail a bunch of gifts, yet you can only afford to mail the smallest one right now. The weights of your gifts are:
14.14, 14.41, 14.4, 14.04, 14.44 (pounds)Which one can you mail?
14.04 pounds
You need to divide up a batch of 36 cookies and a batch of 45 cookies into an equal number of groups. You decide to find the GCF to determine what would give you the greatest number of groups.
What would the GCF be?
9
A fruit cake recipe calls for 5/6 cups of apples, ¾ cup of oranges, ½ cup of pears, and 2/3 cup of cherries.
How many cups of fruit are needed in all?
2 ¾ cups
A few elves are having an argument over a math problem.
One elf thinks that 4/2 = 0.5 while another elf thinks that 4/2 = 2.0
Which is correct?
4/2 = 2.0