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Ms. Molly

100

Jack scored 113 points during his first season playing basketball. Over the next season, he scored 188 points. How many total points did he score?

What is 301?

100

Andrew scored 908 points on a video game. Jada scored 543 points fewer than Andrew playing the same video game. How many points did Jada score? Show your work.

What is 365?

100

Jaylan is planting a garden. She plants 5 pumpkin seeds in each of 3 rows. If all of them grow, how many pumpkins can Jaylan expect to have? Show your work.

What is 15?

100

Grandma Jones baked 35 cookies. She gave each of her 5 grandchildren an equal numbers of cookies. How many cookies did each grandchild get? Show your work.

What is 7?

100

Where did Ms. Molly attend college?

University of Arizona

200

Harrison has 105 jelly beans. His sister has 255 jelly beans. How many jelly beans do they have all together?

What is about 360?

200

Marcia has $209.00 to spend on presents for her birthday. Christopher has $167.00 to spend on his presents for his birthday. How much more money does Marcia have to spend than Christopher?

What is $42?

200

Mr. Jones has 8 tables with 4 chairs at each table. How many seats will he have?

What is 32?

200

A teacher is passing out 24 cookies to her 6 students. How many cookies will each student get?

What is 4

200

How long has Ms. Molly been at West Point?

5 years

300

There are 2 books on the first shelf, 6 books on the second shelf, 12 books on the third shelf, and 20 books on the fourth shelf. How many books there in all? Show your work.

What is 40?

300

Zinna saved up $35. Zinna spent $8 on a pair of gloves, $9 on a winter hat, and $11 on a scarf. How much money does Zinna have left? Show your work.

What is 7?

300

Christy is building a rectangular vegetable garden. The width is 4 feet and the length is 8 feet. How many square feet is her garden?

What is 32 square feet?

300

Marilyn has 40 bananas that must be put away in boxes. If there are 8 boxes, how many bananas must go in each box?

What is 5?

300

How many sibling does Ms. Molly have?

6 brothers

400

Amy bought a bagel for $2.00 on her way to school each day for two weeks (Monday - Friday). She also purchased an orange juice for $1.50 on one morning and a banana for $.50 on three mornings. How much money did she spend over the course of the two weeks on breakfast?

What is $23.00?

400

Billy has to solve 110 Math problems. He solved 55 problems yesterday and 40 problems today. How many problems yet to solve? Show your work.

What is 15?

400

Maria has 8 dresses in her closet. Her friend said that she has five times that amount. If this is true, how many dresses do Maria and her friend have all together? Show your work.

What is 48 dresses?

400

Yvonne read 48 books last year. What is the average number of books that Yvonne read each month? Show your work.

What is 4?

400

What is Ms. Molly's favorite color?

Orange

500

A local bakery sold 3,711 chocolate-chip cookies, 1,402 lemon cookies, and 3,935 oatmeal cookies. How many cookies did the bakery sell in all? Show your work.

What is 9,048?

500

Jacob can spend two hours at the museum. He spends 45 minutes looking at paintings and then 50 minutes looking at pottery. How much time does he have left? Show your work.

What is 25 minutes?

500

Joe works at the local grocery store. He usually works 40 hours a week and gets paid $10 per hour. Sometimes, however, he is asked to work over 40 hours per week and he is paid overtime for the extra hours. He gets paid “time and a half” for overtime; that is, his regular rate of pay plus another half of his rate of pay. Last week, Joe worked 60 hours. How much did he earn? Show your work.

What is $700.00?

500

The science fair had 108 displays. There were twelve displays in each row. How many rows of displays were at the science fair? Show your work.

What is 9 rows?

500

How old is Ms. Molly?