Name: Teacher: Lesson 22
Name: Teacher:
Lesson 22
Mike needs to do laundry this evening. To wash one load of laundry it costs Mike $2.25 in quarters and to dry one load it costs him $1.00 in quarters. He needs to make sure he has enough quarters to do all of his laundry.
What other information does Mike need?
How would he use that information to figure out how many quarters he will need to do his laundry? Use words, numbers, and/or pictures in your answer.
Steve received a score of a 91% on his last math test. He has taken 5 tests before this one and has one more test to take. He needs a final average of a 90% in order to get an A in the class.
Along a straight path from Raleighville to Urbantown the Jones family passes through Sierra and Timeless. The distance from Raleighville to Urbantown is 85 miles. From Raleighville to Timeless is 20 miles, and from Raleighville to Sierra is 48 miles.
How far is it from Sierra to Urbantown? Explain your solution using words, numbers, and/or pictures. Write your explanation in the box below.
Lesson 23
The electrician, plumber, and grocer in a small town are Ruiz, Johnson, and Lee. Lee lives next door to the plumber. The electrician is Lee's daughter. Ruiz and the plumber were on the school debating team back in high school.
Leon, Mitch, Ray, Julio, and Ben have started baseball practice. Their positions include first base, second base, third base, pitcher, and catcher. Look at the following clues:
While working on her family tree, Bonnie mixed up some of the names. From what she knows, however, she is sure she can put them back in the correct order. Mack, Pearl, Eugene, Jack, Maxine, Nancy, and Judy are Bonnie's cousin, aunt, uncle, mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather.
Explain in detail how you found your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures.
Five girls were walking to the park. They were all wearing blouses of different colors. Akiko, Betty, Clara, Dana, and Eve wore blouses that were red, green, glue, white and yellow. Clara doesn't own a green blouse. Dana hates the colors green and yellow. Betty's blouse was either red or blue. Akiko's blouse was neither green nor white. Clara walked between the girl with the yellow blouse and the girl with the blue blouse. Dana's blouse was red.
Explain in detail how you found your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures. Write your explanation of how you solved this problem in the box below.
Lesson 24, 25, and 26
Briefly explain the following problem solving strategies:
Guess and Check
Draw a Picture
Act it Out or Use Objects
Make and Use an Organized List, Table, Chart or Graph
Look for a Pattern
Use Logical Reasoning
Work Backward
Solve a Simpler or a Similar Problem
It was time for the Fourth of July parade. Marty was helping to put helium in the balloons. When he was finished he had inflated 1147 balloons. There were 255 more white balloons than red ones. There were 116 fewer blue balloons than white ones.
Marta made out the order for Jaguar Jeans. She ordered 7 pairs of jeans for every jacket, 1 shirt for every 2 pairs of jeans, 3 sweaters for every jacket, 2 pairs of shoes for each 3 sweaters, and 1 belt for every 3 jackets. Marta ordered 36 jackets so she thinks she has ordered 606 items all together.
Prove and explain in detail why you think she is right or wrong using words, numbers, and/or pictures.Write your explanation and proof of your answer in the box below.
The fierce army of ants marches forth to battle. The general makes up the whole first row. Two colonels make up the second row. Three lieutenant colonels form the third row. Four majors make up the fourth row. Five soldiers form the fifth row, and so on, row after row.
Albert, Bernard, Gina, Denise, and Elroy had all made it to the finals of the Chili Championship Cook-off. Their recipes were all top secret concoctions, some passed down from generation to generation. Three of their recipes called for ground beef, and two called for stew meat. Three of them used hot peppers and two used mild peppers. Bernard and Elroy used the same kind of peppers. Denise and Gina used the same kind of meat. Albert and Bernard didn't use the same kind of meat in their chili. Gina and Albert used different kinds of peppers.
Fran was demonstrating her specialty on KRTB, Fruit-Bat Soup for a crowd. First she threw in her prime ingredient, giant fruit bats. Then she added 6 times as many pounds of frog legs as chicken wings. She added 2/9 as many pounds of chicken wings as potatoes, 1 1/2 as many pounds of potatoes as carrots, and 6 times as many pounds of carrots as mudflat mushrooms. The mudflat mushrooms were 3/128 of the total ingredients, which amounted to 6 pounds.
The nine directors of the Whacky Widget Corporation always open their annual board meetings with a special ceremony in which each director shakes hands with each of the other directors.
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