Marvelous Math!

Watch the video and take the quiz with your partner. You are trying to earn 1200 points.

Listen to the song first. See if you can learn it! Then take the quiz and see if you know your stuff! Let Mrs. Rodgers know how you did.

Now that you have had time to measure in mm, cm, and m, take this quiz to prove what you have learned. Write your answer down, and then see if you are correct. If you miss a question, write the correct answer beside your original answer.

Students, here is your chance to show what you know!  Watch the video and then take the quiz.  When you are finished, tell Mrs. Rodgers how you did.

1.  If there is a bag with 5 red candies, 3 blue candies, 6 green candies, and 2 yellow candies, what fraction represents how many candies are blue?  green?

2.  If your eyes are closed, what are the chances you would pull out a red or green candy?

3.  If your baseball team has won 14 games and lost 6, what is the fraction that shows how many were won?  how many were lost?

4.  A deck of cards has 52 cards in all.  There are 4 suits and they all have 13 cards.  If you were to draw a card, what are the chances you would pick a heart?  What are the chances you would draw a face card (jack, queen, king, and ace)?

The posts for this blog are due Monday, April 7.  Solve each problem and include the number of the problem with your answer.

1.  There are 20 students in our class.  2/5 of the class want North Carolina to win the basketball championship, 1/4 want Kansas to win and the rest of the class is undecided.  How many students exactly are cheering for North Carolina, Kansas, or are undecided?

2.  If Miss T drinks 2/3 of 300 ml of water and Mrs. R drinks 3/5 of 500 ml of water, who drinks more water?

3.  Scientists tell us to sleep 3/8 of a day.  How many hours is that?

Good job! Most of you got it correct! Now, try these.  It is due by Monday, March 31.  We are working on perimeter and area, so see if you can solve these.

1.  A rancher is putting a fence around his horses’ pen.  It is a rectangle shape with the length being 25 feet and the width being 10 feet.  How much fencing does he need to buy?  How much room do the horses have to move around in?

2.  Reagan wants to hang a Hannah Montana poster up in her room.  She asked her mom to buy a frame, but her mom could not find the right size and decided to make one.  The poster is 18 inches high and 16 inches across.  How much wood do they need to buy to cover the outside of the poster?  How much room does Reagan need to save on her wall for the poster?

Since spring is around the corner, Mr. Rodgers went to buy flowers at Home Depot for the yard. Petunias cost $3.22 , Daisies were on sale for $2.99 each, and marigolds were $1.89.  His total, not counting tax, was $17.30.  How many of each flower did he purchase?

According to NORAD, Santa flies over 91,000 miles on his big night. How many miles per hour does he have to fly to travel that far in 24 hours?