Showing posts with label 7th grade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 7th grade. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

6th - 8th grade

Last year the Vikings had a 12-4 record. The Twins play 162 games per season. If they have the same winning percentage as the Vikings, how many games will they win?

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

5th - 12th grade

Continue the pattern
1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 100, 101, ...

6th - 8th grade

Megan's summer job pays either minimum wage ($7.25 per hour) or 20% commission on what she sells. If megan works for 8 hours and sells $450 worth of stuff, should she be paid minimum wage or commission?

Bonus: If she takes the commission, what is the equivalent hourly rate?

Double Bonus: If she takes the hourly wage what is the equivalent percent commission?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

5th - 8th grade

Bill has 7 students in his basketball team. Only 5 can play at once. How many different groups of 5 students can have on the court at a time?

Hint: it's easier to think of the reverse of this questions - how many different groups of 2 students can sit on the bench.

Monday, August 10, 2009

7th - 10th grade

An iphone screen is 3.5" measured diagonally at a ratio of 3:2. Jennie's TV is 31.5" measured diagonally and at a ratio of 16:9. How many iphone screens would it take to make a picture the size of Jennie's TV?

5th - 7th grade

Road Trip Math:

Peter is going on a road trip with two friends. The total length of the trip is 368 miles each way. Gas costs $2.49 per gallon, and Peter's car gets 31 mpg. How much should each friend give Peter for gas money?

4th - 12th grade

Count the rectangles.

5th - 7th grade

Mathnasium has a "perfect page day" whenever a student correctly guesses the roll of a 6 sided die. There is one chance per day. If Mathnasium is open 5 days per week, on average how many perfect page days will there be per year?

5th - 7th grade

Nate and Peter had a counting contest. Whoever could count past 100 first won. They each counted a number every 2 seconds. Nate counted by 5s, Peter counted by prime numbers. Who won, and by how many seconds did he win?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

4th - 8th grade

7 █ =2 █ + 7Δ

Find values for █ and Δ

4th - 8th grade

█ + █ + █ + █ + Δ = Δ + Δ + Δ + Δ

Find values for █ and Δ

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

4th - 8th grade

█ + █ + █ + Δ = Δ + Δ + Δ

Find values for █ and Δ

4th - 6th grade

Write 10 division facts that equal 7

4th - 7th grade

Pick any number
Double it
Add 16
Cut it in half
Subtract your original number.


Did you get 8?

6th - 10th grade

Vani Dug a hole 3 feet deep, 2 feet wide, and 4 feet long. How much dirt is in her hole?

3rd - 7th grade

Which weighs more, a pound of pencils or a pound of erasers?

4th - 10th grade

Christina has two jars of marbles. The red jar has 100 red marbles. The blue jar has 100 blue marbles. Christina takes 20 marbles from the red jar and stirs them into the blue jar. Then she takes 20 marbles from the blue jar and stirs them into the red jar. Which jar has the most marbles of the opposite color?

5th - 9th grade

n*n = 4

What are the two solutions for n?

5th - 9th grade

n*n = n+n

What two numbers could n be?

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

4th - 7th grade

Peter's seeds say to start planting indoors 6-8 weeks before average last frost date. Peter went online and found that the average last frost date is April 29. When should he plant his seeds indoors?