Math challenge- I didn't always look like this, but here are some clues to how I used to appear: My head had 4 right angles, 4 equal sides, and 2 pairs of parallel sides. My eyes were both quadrilaterals , each having 4 equal sides but no right angles. Each eye also had 2 pairs of parallel sides. My shapely nose was a quadrilateral with 4 right angles and 2 pairs of parallel sides. Before my lip job, my mouth was a polygon that had 2 pairs of parallel sides and no right angles. I had 3 strands of hair that were all parallel to each other but perpendicular to the top of my head, and an arrow ran right through my hair forming 12 right hairy angles. The arrow's point was an equilateral triangle that was all sparkly. I didn't have any ears back then because sound had not been invented yet.
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Ex. 7 and 8, pages 136-139
Math Challenge- Think of the numbers on the clock in the classroom. Can you recreate them so they are made of only parallel and perpendicular lines? Also, think of the hands on a clock when it is 12:15. Are they perpendicular? Be careful with this one. The hour hand also moves. Are there any times when the hands on the clock are perpendicular? Can you create a shape that has an equal number of acute and obtuse angles? For example, can you draw a polygon that has two acute and two obtuse angles? How about three and three? How about equal acute and right angles? How about equal acute, obtuse, and right angles? What about angles greater than 180 degrees?
True or false- a rhombus can have 4 right angles and a rhombus can have no right angles. Explain.
Ex. 2, pages 121-122 in workbook
Math challenge: Mr. K was recently seen walking down the street in his magic dance tutu, practicing dance moves that are nearly impossible to duplicate. He turned 45 degrees clockwise and then made a 3/4-turn counterclockwise. He was then facing South. Where was he facing before he made the turns? Ex. 8, page 82, and Ex. 9 page 85
Math challenge-A recent outbreak of puddingheaditis was reported to have occurred in Mr. K's math class, no doubt spread by Mr. K himself who is rumored to have brains made up of a rare tapioca pudding. Sadly, 1/4 of the students have come down with chocolate puddingbrainitis, 7/12 are suffering from vanilla puddingbrainitis, and the remaining 4 students have swirly puddingbrainitis which is incurable. How many students are in the class? Mystery talk! share with your parents the math mystery you had to solve today.
Math challenge problem: As many of you know, Mr. K is a world renowned ribbon collector because there are few things in this world cooler than a ribbon. String is cool, too, but ribbons are just incredible. So naturally, Mr. K has a ribbon bag called Bag P (Most 48 year old math teachers have some kind of ribbon bag.), and inside are 36 ribbons! Hard to believe, but hold on. 2/3 of the ribbons in Bag P are....(suspense building)....RED! Now don't pass out from excitement, but Mr. K also has another bag of ribbons called...Bag Q, and it has 60 ribbons (Now you know why he is world-renowned.)! Hold on now because 5/12 of the ribbons in Bag Q are...RED! So which bag has more red ribbons, and how much more than the other bag? Mr. Kramer bakes a cake and gives some to two of his 4th graders. To Fred, he gives 2/5 of the cake, and to Lisa he gives 1/10 more than he gave to Fred. What fraction of the cake remained?
You find 108 magical golden tutus that when worn by you cause your math teacher to do all your homework. However, each tutu can only be worn once and then it turns into Richard Simmons. But still, they're pretty cool. You decide to keep 2/3 of the 108 tutus and you want to give your friend 4/9 of the 108 tutus. What's the problem?
Make corrections to the problems you solved today and get the assignment signed.
Challenge problem: Mr. Kramer has a beautiful nose hair that's 1 foot long. He's in the Hunger Games battling bad guys. He throws 7/12 of his nose hair at the bad guys. The he throws another piece of the nose hair that's 1/3 shorter than the 7/12 piece. How much of his nose hair did he throw at the bad guys altogether? Try to put your answer in simplest form. Equivalent fractions- workbook Exercise 1 on pages 67-68.
Challenge problem- Mrs. Jees ordered a cake for the family. She ate 1/8 of it and her two sons ate 1/4 of it. What fraction of the cake was left? If there were 5 other people in the family, could they evenly split what was left? What if there were 10 other people in the family- could they evenly split what was left? Who would you prefer to have as your math teacher- Kronos, Macbeth, or King Richard III?
Solve these problems using mental math. Try to do them in your head quickly by looking for shortcuts. Show/explain how you solved them.
348+55-48= 2072-998-997= 563+456-99-256= Workbook pages 65-66, #'s 16, 17, 18
Math challenge- Lady Gaga sells her hamburgers for $3 each in the morning. The price drops to $2.50 each in the afternoon. On Sunday, Lady Gaga made $120.00 in the morning. In the afternoon she sold twice as many burgers. How much did she make on Sunday? Mork and Zork each bought the same laser blaster. In addition, Mork bought a brain disintegrator and Zork bought a skull neutralizer. The brain disintegrator cost $60.00. Find the cost of the skull neutralizer if Zork spent $1,810.00 and Mork spent $1,840.00.
Mark and Paul collected a total of 952 stickers. Mark collected 3 times as many stickers as Paul. Jason collected half as many stickers as Paul. How many stickers did each person collect?
Tripods have 3 legs; bipods have 2 legs. Some bipods and tripods have 15 legs altogether. What are the possible numbers of bipods and tripods?
1. Get assessment signed and return.
2. Finish multiplication clock and check for accuracy. Math challenge: Four pears and 7 mangoes cost $47.00. Each pear costs $2 less than a mango. What is the cost of 3 mangoes? Ex. 5 in workbook, 1-4, pages 49-50
Math challenge: the sum of two numbers is 1,200. Their difference is 214. What are the two numbers? Puzzle math sheet- please do the first four problems. Cutting them out and pasting the pieces on is optional. Please do not solve the whole problem. We'll finish the rest in class.
Math Challenge- Mr. Collette has 438 shrunken heads. If an evil math wizard had another 379 more shrunken heads, the wizard would have twice as many heads as Mr. Collette. How many heads does the EMW have? Using your spooky menu, write your own simple word problem. It could involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division. Be sure to include a solution to your problem.
Simple example: I buy two drinks. One costs $3.75 and the other costs $4.98. I f I have $10.00 and want to buy another drink for $2.85, do I have enough money? If not, how much more do I need? If yes, how much money do I have left over? Challenge problem- A turkey who recently toured with Snoop Dog on his most recent tour is thinking about two numbers because that's what hip hop turkeys do. The sum of those two numbers is 1,544 and the difference between the two numbers is 152, and the turkey wears lots of bling bling. What are the two numbers? Finish your menu. Tomorrow we will use the menus to place orders and create word problems. They might be gross. Tonight's math challenge message- TRY IT! Even if you think it's too difficult, make an attempt. The worst thing that happens is I call Fred the Dungeon Master and you get sent to the stretch rack. Big deal. Challenge- Joe has $960.00. If Rick had another $240.00, he would have twice as much money as Joe. How much money does Joe have less than Rick? The wording of this problem brought to you by the Evil Math Wizard. Homework- Exercise 2 in workbook, pages 42-43, #1 a-f, and #3 a-f.
Math Challenge- Mrs. Dowson saved $2,192.00 in two years. She saved $88.00 every month for the first 14 months. She saved an equal amount of money for the remaining months. How much did she save in each of the remaining months? My doctor gave me 10 pills and told me to take one every half an hour. How many hours will the pills last? workbook page 33 all
Challenge problem- In my castle there are 205 bats. If each bat laid 3 eggs, and I sold each egg for $.80, how much money would I make? Careful, the accent may cause brain damage. |
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