Author: Elisabeth

Pontiac Middle School

Daily Math Journal

Name: _________________________________

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
25

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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Crackers contain 12 calories each and cookies contain 52 calories each. If you eat 5 crackers and 2 cookies, how many calories have you consumed in all?
You bought 8 DVDs for $22 each and 4 DVDs for $13 each. What is the average price you paid for each movie?
You want to start a necklace making business. You spend $0.68 on string for each necklace and $0.25 on beads for each necklace. You sell your necklaces for $2.00 each. If you sell 30 necklaces, how much profit will you make?

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Number Detective
The secret number has three digits.
To find the digit in the hundreds place subtract nineteen from twenty one.
The digit in the ones place is zero, two, three, or eight.
The secret number is an odd number.
How many sides does a hexagon have?
That’s the digit in the tens place.
What is the secret number? _______________

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Brighton is 15 kilometers due east of Kingsburg and 13 kilometers due west of Hamilton. How many kilometers apart are Kingsburg and Hamilton? (hint: draw a picture)
You draw a rectangle that is 8 inches wide. It is 3 times a s long as it is wide. What is the area of the rectangle.
In science class the students need to measure a plant’s growth over time. The first week, the plant was 3.04 cm tall. It tripled in size the second week, and then grew another 1.9 cm the third week. How tall was the plant after 3 weeks?

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Calculator Fun
Riddle: What is the only thing that gets larger the more you take away?
Answer: twenty five thousand minus sixty eight minus nine hundred fifty two minus eight thousand nine hundred fifty six minus 11 thousand three hundred twenty.
Write the problem you should put into the calculator:
Write the answer to the problem in numbers:
Write the answer to the riddle in words:

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Monique bought a shirt for $22.80 during a 30% off sale. How much does the shirt cost when it is not on sale?
You have a triangular-shaped pennant hanging on your wall. The base of the pennant is 18 inches. The height is 1 foot. How much wall space does your pennant take up?
Mortimer Moose lives in the Great North Woods where there is lots of snow. Last year, 140 inches of snow fell. The year before, there were 167 inches. Three years ago, 131 inches of snow fell. What is the average amount of snowfall for the last 3 years?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
36

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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Mortimer Moose makes money by shoveling his neighbors’ driveways. Each neighbor pays him $12 for shoveling the snow. Mortimer earned $84 today. How many driveways did he shovel?
Mortimer keeps track of the daily snowfall on his calendar. On Sunday, 5 inches of snow fell. On Monday, 8 additional inches fell. Tuesday brought 6 inches. Wednesday had no snowfall. 13 inches of snow fell on Thursday and 9 inches fell on Friday. 17 inches of snow fell on Saturday. How much snow fell in all during those 7 days.
58.75 inches of snow fell in January. 46.5 inches of snow fell in February. Help Mortimer figure out how much more snow fell in January than in February.

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Number Detective
The secret number has four digits.
The digit in the tens place and the hundreds place are the same.
To find the digit in the ones place, subtract fifty three from sixty two.
How many sides does a triangle have? That’s the digit in the hundreds place.
The number in the thousands place is forty nine less than fifty three.
What is the secret number? _______________

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Ice fishing is Mortimer’s favorite sport. He cannot safely walk on the ice until it is 2 feet thick. When he measured the ice this morning, it was 20.5 inches thick. How much thicker must the ice get to let him fish safely?
When Mortimer went ice fishing yesterday, he caught 22 fish. Today he caught half as many. How many fish did he catch today?
In 1 hour of ice fishing, Mortimer caught 6 fish. If he continues catching fish at this rate, how many fish will he catch in 4 hours?

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Calculator Fun
Riddle: Picture these U.S. coins: a nickel, a penny, and a dime. Ellie’s parents have three children. One is Nick and another is Penny. Who is the third?
Answer: five hundredths divided by one hundredth divided by one tenth times
three times two hundred eleven plus one hundred twenty three.
Write the problem you should put into the calculator:
Write the answer to the problem in numbers:
Write the answer to the riddle in words:

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For every fish that Mortimer caught, 5 fish didn’t bite the worm on his hook. If he caught 17 fish, how many fish got away?
When chopping down trees, Mortimer’s axe gets dull. It usually needs sharpening after 2 hours of chopping. If he chops trees for 10 hours, how many times will he have to stop to sharpen his axe?
After chopping the logs, Mortimer must stack them. He makes pyramids of logs in which each row has 1 less log than the row below it. If the bottom row has 6 logs and the top row has 1 log, how many logs will be in the pyramid?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
191

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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When Mortimer builds a fire, he knows that 6 average size logs burn for 1 hour. How many logs will he need to keep the fire burning for 16 hours?
Some friends have challenged Mortimer to a snowball fight. The fight will start in 10 minutes. Mortimer must make as many snowballs as possible in that time. Working feverishly, he made 65 snowballs in 2 minutes. If he can keep up that pace, how many snowballs will he have when the fight begins?
Mitchell, Maggie, and Michelle were in the snowball fight with Mortimer. They formed 2 teams: Maggie and Mitchell against Michelle and Mortimer. Michelle and Mortimer had 1/2 as many snowballs in their arsenal as the other team. If Mitchell and Maggie had 820 snowballs, how many did Michelle and Mortimer have?

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Number Detective
The secret number has one comma.
There are two digits to the left of the comma.
he digit in the thousands place is the sum of two and three.
There is more than one zero in the secret number.
How many minutes in a quarter of an hour? If you know this, you know the first two digits.
The last three digits are all the same.
What is the secret number? _______________

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Mitchell had very good aim. He was able to hit Mortimer with 2 snowballs out of every 3 snowballs he threw. If he threw 90 snowballs at Mortimer, how many hit him?
Maggie’s aim was not as good as Mitchell’s. Only 1/4 of her snowballs hit their mark. If 70 of her snowballs hit the other team, how many snowballs did she throw in all?
After the snowball fight, Mortimer and his 3 friends went inside to warm up with some hot chocolate. Each mug will hold 10 ounces of liquid. How much milk will Mortimer need to warm up so that everyone can have a mug full of hot chocolate?

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Calculator Fun
Riddle: Bill subtracted numbers for twenty minutes, Bess multiplied them, and Leslie added them?
Who was more exhausted when they finished? Add nine plus fifty seven plus eight hundred sixty eight plus seven thousand nine hundred twenty plus ninety three thousand two hundred eight plus two hundred fifteen thousand four hundred seventy five.
Write the problem with numbers:
Write the answer with numbers:
Write the answer with words:
2. Who got the most work done in twenty minutes? Multiply three tenths times two times two and six tenths times twenty times seven and one tenth times twenty five.
Write the problem with numbers:
Write the answer with numbers:
Write the answer with words:

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Mitchell, Maggie, and Mortimer like mini-marshmallows in their hot chocolate. Michelle does not like marshmallow. Mortimer had 2 dozen mini-marshmallows. If the marshmallows were shared equally, how many did each friend get?
Michelle likes chocolate chips in her hot chocolate. Maggie and Mortimer had never had chocolate chips in their cocoa, but thought it sounded good. Mitchell doesn’t like chocolate chips in his cocoa. Mortimer measure 3/4 cup of chocolate chips. If the 3 of them share equally, how much will each friend get?
Mortimer doesn’t want the milk for the hot chocolate to boil. Milk boils at 214°F. He will stop heating the milk when it is 30°F cooler than its boiling point. At what temperature will Mortimer stop heating the milk?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
93

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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Subtract four from the number of days in a year. Now add 2.
2. Begin with the greatest number on a clock and multiply it by two.
3. Suppose each of the blind mice who ran up the clock (3) had been one of triplets. If every sibling had run up the clock, how many mice would have run up the clock?
4. Remove six from the number of inches in a foot and reattach four of them. What is the final total number of inches?
5. How many sides are there on five triangles?

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Number Detective
Each digit of the secret number is odd.
The value of the digit in the tens place is seventy.
The digit in the hundreds place means the same as the prefix tri-
There are more than two digits in the secret number, but less than four.
In the ones place you’ll find the largest digit possible.
What is the secret number? _______________

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Add six to the number of days in the month of July. Subtract a day. How many days are there now?
2. If the Big Bad Wolf had been face with ten times as many little pigs as the story tells (3), how many little pigs would he have been dealing with?
3. How many weeks are in a period of two years?
4. Add the number of fingers on both hands and the number of toes on both feet. Subtract seven. What is your final answer?
5. If a genie rose out of a bottle on a puff of smoke and granted you eight more hours in any day of your choice, how many hours would be in your chosen day?

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Calculator Fun
Write the number of the month your birthday is in: (July = 07)
Write the day of your birthday: (the seventh = 07)
Write the month and day together as one number:
Multiply the number by two:
Add five:
Multiply the answer by fifty:
Subtract two hundred and fifty:
What are the first four digits of your answer?
Do they look familiar? Why or why not?

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How many minutes are there in three and a half hours?
2. Add an unlucky number (13) to the number of eggs in a dozen.
3. Start with the number of feet in six yards and then subtract a foot. What’s the total number of feet?
4. If the average person sleeps eight hours a day, then how many hours a day is the average person awake?
5. Remove the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) from the alphabet. How many letters are left?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
156

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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How many puppies are there if they have a total of twenty feet?
2. Most USA schools are in session one hundred and eighty days of the year. How many days have students with perfect attendance been in school when they graduate from eighth grade. (hint: don’t forget kindergarten)
3. How many months are there in four years?
4. Count the number of tires on six cars. Now remove three tires. How many are left?
5. How many seconds does it take to boil a three-minute egg?

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Number Detective
The secret number contains these digits: one, nine, nine, two.
The secret number is less than nine thousand.
The secret number is greater than two thousand.
The smallest digit is in the ones place.
Right after the comma, you’ll find a pair of upside-down sixes.
What is the secret number?

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Start with one hundred pennies. Add fifteen more. Subtract twenty-five. How many pennies are there now?
2. Forty-eight hours is how many days?
3. If you baked two and a half dozen cupcakes for a friend’s birthday party, how many cupcakes did you bake?
4. How many quarters would you need for a total of twelve dollars and fifty cents?
5. If one is missing, how many wheels are there on six tricycles?

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Calculator Fun
Choose a number one through nine. Write it on the line: __________
Multiply your number by three. Write the answer here: __________
Write your first number three times: __________ You now have a three digit number.
Divide your answer in number two by the number in number one. Write your answer here: ________________
Try the four steps again with a new number. What answer do you get? ____________
What happens if you do it a third time with another number? ___________
Are you starting to see a pattern? What is it?

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Add the number of sides on six squares to the number of angles in four triangles.
2. Suppose you have managed to collect one thousand and fifty-two dimes. How much money do you have?
3. What number is ten less than the number of weeks in a year?
4. How many signers would be on stage if a quartet, a trio, a duo, and a solo artist decided to perform together?
5. Imagine your teacher tells you there will be one and a half hours of homework a night for the next four nights. How many hours of homework will you have?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
69

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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The area of our largest state, Alaska, is 615,230 square miles. The area of our smallest state, Rhode Island, is 1,231 square miles. How much larger is Alaska than Rhode Island?
There were 696,115 living in New York City in 1850. there were 7,195,842 more people living there in 1950. How many people lived in New York City in 1950?
In 1850 the city of San Francisco had a population of about 35,000 people. The city had about 10 times that many people living there in 1900. About how many people lived in San Francisco in 1900?

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Number Detective
The secret number has three digits.
Two digits are even. The other is odd.
How many tentacles (arms) does an octopus have? That’s the digit in the tens place.
I found a nickel and four pennies on the ground. I better pick them up. I think it’s a clue to the first digit.
The digit in the ones place is not four, six, or eight.
The secret number is not nine hundred eighty two.
What is the secret number?

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The city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, had a population of 4,282 in 1850 and 45,115 in 1900. The city of Montgomery, Alabama, had a population of 8,728 in 1850 and 30,346 in 1900. Which city’s population increased more between 1850 and 1900? Explain your answer.
The number of people in the United States who are 85 and older has increased over the years. Use the chart to answer the following questions.
By how much has the population increased each decade?
Between which two time periods was there the smallest increase in population? The largest increase?
Predict the population in the year 2000.

Year	Number of People 85 and Older
1950	577,000
1960	929,000
1970	1,409,000
1980	2,240,000
1990	3,021,000

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Calculator Fun
Choose any number one through nine. Write it on this line: ________
Multiply that number by one hundred twenty three million four hundred fifty six thousand seven hundred eighty nine (123456789). Write the answer here: ___________________
Multiply the answer by nine. Write the answer here: _______________
Try the process again with a new number.
Write your number here: __________
Write your final answer here:
Try it again with a third number.
Write the number here: __________
Write your final answer here:
Do you see a pattern? What is it?

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Hoover Dam is a magnificent structure standing 724 feet tall. Comparing the dam to the stories in a skyscraper is one way to visualize how tall the dam is. Each story in a typical skyscraper is 12 feet tall. How many skyscraper stories is Hoover Dam?
Hoover Fam has 17 generators. If each generator produces 117 megawatts of electricity, how many megawatts in all dot eh generators produce?
Hoover Dam weighs about six million, six hundred thousand tons. Write this number.

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
92

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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Almost 30,000 people visit Hoover Dam each day. About how many people visit the dam each week?
The table below shows lakes created by dams. Lake Mead contains 28,255,000 acre-feet of water. Figure out how much smaller the other lakes are compared to Lake Mead.

Dam	Lake	Size of Lake in Acre-Feet	Smaller than Lake Mead by:
Glen Canyon	Powell	27,000,000
Oahe	Oahe	19,300,000
Garrison	Sakakawea	18,500,000
Fort Peck	Fort Peck	15,400,000
Grand Coulee	F.D. / Roosevelt	9,562,000
Libby	Koocanusa	5,809,000

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Number Detective
The secret number has more than four digits, but less than six.
There’s a five in the ones place.
Every other digit is less than five.
Before the comma, you’ll see a number equal to a dozen.
In the hundreds place you’ll see a digit that is one more than two.
The digits one through five are each used once in the secret number.
What is the secret number?

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Four friends: Zaida, Diana, Jalitza, and Jazmin, are going to a fun park. They want to ride the go-carts. The price to ride the go-carts is $2.15 for 5 minutes, $4.00 for 10 minutes, or $6.75 for 15 minutes. Which price is the best deal? Explain why.
The four friends want to know how many miles they drove on the go-cart track. The track is 3/4 of a mile long. Each person went around the track 12 times. How many miles did each person drive? How many miles in all did the four friends drive?
The four friends want to play video games. Together they have a total of $8 to spend. Each game costs 25¢. How many games will each person be able to play?

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Calculator Fun
Choose a number between one and ten. Write it here: ____________
Double your number and write the answer here: _______________
Add two to the answer: _________________
Divide the answer by two: __________________
Subtract the original number from the answer in step four: ___________
Try the process again with a new number. What number will you use? _____ What is your answer? _______________
Try the process again with a new number. What number will you use? _____ What is your answer? _____________
Do you see a pattern? What is it?

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Diana’s video game score was 524 points. Jazmin’s score was half as much as Diana’s. Jalitza’s score was twice as much as Diana’s. Zaida’s score was three time’s as much as Jazmin’s. What scores did Jazmin, Jalitza, and Zaida have?
Jalitza played a ball toss game. The table shows where each ball landed. Add up Jalitza’s score.

25
50
75
100

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
18

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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In 1994 The Rolling Stones rock band received $121.2 million for their North American concert tour. In 1998 Elton John received $46.2 million for his concert tour. How much more money did The Rolling Stones receive than Elton John?
In 1991, 333.3 million music compact discs were shopped in the United States. There were twice as many discs shipped in 1994 and 3 times as many in 1999. How many discs were shipped in 1994 and 1999?
In 1990 there were 442.2 million music cassettes shipped in the United States. Half as many cassettes were shipped in 1996 and 1/3 as many in 1998. About how many cassettes were shipped in 1996 and 1998?

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Number Detective
Twenty nine thousand two hundred and six. That’s the secret number...but the digits aren’t in the right order.
One of the twos should be in the thousands place.
The other two is in the hundreds place.
The number is greater than seventy thousand.
Now what are the last two digits? Let’s just say that it’s the number of years in six decades.
What is the secret number?

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In 1999 there were more country music radio stations in the United States than any other type. Classical music had the fewest with 38 stations. If there were about 60 times as many country music stations as classical stations, about how many country stations were there?
The Stone Water Connection, a local rock band in Greeley, Colorado, began selling a CD of their latest concert. Each disc cost $3.75 to make and sold for $9.00/ Complete this chart to show the total number of CDs and how much profit the band made over a 4-week period.

Week	# of CDs	Profit for week
1	23
2	17
3	10
4	16
TOTAL

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Calculator Fun
Choose a number between one and nine. Write it here: _____________
Multiply your number by nine. Write the answer: ________________
Multiply your number by twelve million, three hundred forty five thousand, six hundred seventy nine:
A. Write the problem here:
B. Write the answer here:
Try the process again with a new number.
Write your number: ____________
Write your answer: ____________
Do you see a pattern? What is it?

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During an earth science unit, Mr. Vann demonstrated the extreme amount of pressure needed to fold the earth’s crust. He had each student fold a whole newspaper in half, as many times as possible. By the seventh fold, the newspaper couldn’t be folded any more. How many layers of newspaper were there after the seventh fold?
The Richter Scale is used to measure the strength of earthquakes. The higher the number is on the scale, the stronger the earthquake. Put these earthquakes in order from low to high on the Richter Scale.
The greatest recorded depth of the Antarctic ice sheet was recorded at 15,400 feet. A mile is 5,280 feet. Estimate how many miles thick the ice is.

Order 1-5	Year	City	Strength
	1985	Michoacan	8.1
	1906	San Francisco	7.7
	1923	Yokohama	8.3
	1994	Northridge	6.8
	1995	Kobe	6.9

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
20

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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The average annual precipitation in Reno, Nevada, is 7.53 inches. The average for Honolulu, Hawaii, is 14.49 inches more than Reno. What is the average annual precipitation in Honolulu?
This chart shows the Fujita Scale that is used to measure damaging winds. Use the chart to answer the following questions.
What Fujita Scale number would be given to a 245 mph wind?
What Fujita Scale number would be given to a 99 mph wind?
What type of damage would be done by a 214 mph wind?

Scale	Wind Speed	Damage
0	40-72	Light
1	73-112	Moderate
2	113-157	Considerable
3	158-206	Severe
4	207-260	Devastating
5	261-318	Incredible

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Number Detective
Lucky sevens. There’s a pair of them in the secret number.
Unlucky thirteen is in the number also.
The secret number has only four digits.
Are you thinking that the secret number is one thousand three hundred and seventy seven? If so, you are incorrect.
Don’t guess seven thousand seven hundred and thirteen either because that would also be wrong.
What is the secret number?

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The whale shark can be as much as 50 feet long. The cigar shark is rarely more than 8 inches in length as an adult. How many cigar sharks would you need to put head to tail to match the length of a 50-foot whale shark?
Sharks lose teeth all the time. Each lost tooth, however, is quickly replaced. If a shark replaces an average of 4 teeth a week, how many teeth will be replaced in a year?
The blue shark can swim at a speed of 40 miles per hour. If the shark swam at this speed for 15 minutes, how far would it swim? How long would it take the shark to travel 90 miles?

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Calculator Fun
Choose a whole number. Write it here:
2. If your number is even, divide it by two. If it is odd, divide it by three:
3.Keep dividing by two or three over and over. Write your answers here:
A. ______ B. _______ C. _______ D._______ E. ______ F. _______ G. ______ H. ______
4. Try it again with a new number. What is the number? _________
A. ______ B. _______ C. _______ D._______ E. ______ F. _______ G. ______ H. ______
5. Do you notice a pattern? What is it?

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People all around the world eat shark steaks. Shark steaks can cost as much as $15 a pound. How much would a 3 1/4 pound shark steak cost?
The record weights of different types of sharks that have been caught off the New England cost are shown below. Complete the chart below.

Shark	Weight in Pounds	How much more does the shark weight than a student who weights 60 pounds?	About how many 60 pound fifth graders would equal the weight of each shark?
Mako	1,115 lbs
Thresher	767 lbs
Porbeagle	507 lbs
Blue	454 lbs

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
11

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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A group of friends were throwing a football. Jesus threw the ball 22.4 meters, Michael threw the ball 22.4 meters, Gerardo threw it 27.3 meters, Raul threw it 23.8 meters, and Josue threw it 30 meters. How much father did Josue throw the football than each of his friends?
A group of friends collected food for their town’s food bank. Elaine collected 7.9 pounds, Diana collected 12.2 pounds, Angelica collected 8.3 pounds, Jazmin collected 6.9 pounds, and Ercilia collected 13.3 pounds. How many pounds of food did they collect in all?
Ercilia has 15 baseball cards. Jonatan has 3 times as many cards as Ercilia. Paulo has 2 times as many as Ercilia. Jalitza has 4 times as many as Ercilia. Julian has 7 times as many as Ercilia. How many cards does each person have?

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Number Detective
There’s a comma after the first two digits of the secret number.
Here’s a hint: twelve times seven equals eighty four.
The secret number is even. In fact, all but one digit is even.
If you add two hundred sixteen to the secret number, you’ll have thirteen thousand.
If you subtract seven hundred eighty four from the secret number you get twelve thousand.
What is the secret number?

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A group of 5 friends put their money together, hoping that they could all go to the movies. This is how much they gave: $7.25, $5.50, $8.10, $3.25, $6.90. If a movie ticket costs $6.00, will they have enough money? Explain why or why not.
Six friends sat around a table to work on a science project. They left an empty chair for Raul who had gone to gather supplies. Use the clues to find out where each person sat.
Jalitza is seated between Michael and Zaida.
Diana is at the end of the table.
Michael is seated near Diana’s left hand.
Angelica is next to the empty chair.
Elaine is seated near Angelica’s left hand.

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Calculator Fun
Choose a three digit number and write it here: _______________
2. Write the number two times in a row: __________ You now have a six digit number.
3. Divide your six digit number by eleven. ___________
4. Divide your answer by thirteen. ___________
5. Divide your answer by the three digit number in step one. _____________
Try the process again with a new number. Number: ______ Answer: _____
Do you see a pattern? What is it?

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Miss Bowman demonstrated how greenhouses help plants grow faster. She placed a glass jar over a patch of grass. A week later, the grass inside the jar was 15 millimeters longer than the grass growing outside of the jar. If the grass outside of the jar was 55 millimeters long, how long was the grass inside the jar?
Miss Bowman’s students collected data on wildflower plants found on 5 square meters of prairie land. Jabin found 17 gumweed, 33 black-eyed Susans, 27 common ilkweed, 42 prairie rose, and 29 Indian paintbrush. How many more prairie rose and black-eyed Susans combined were there than common milkweed and gumweed combined?
Miss Bowman’s class started an earthworm farm with 7 worms. If at the end of each week there were twice as many worms as the week before, how many worms would there be after 4 weeks? After 8 weeks?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
609

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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Miss Bowman’s class is learning about spiders. A single spider egg sac can hold as many as 3,000 eggs. If you found 7 sacs, how many eggs could there be in all? In 12 egg sacs?
Miss Bowman’s class demonstrated how walking increases a person’s heart rate. They made this line graph to show Jonatan’s heart rate. Use the graph to answer the questions.
After 1 minute, what was Jonatan’s heart rate?
After 5 minutes, what was Jonatan’s hear rate?
Jonatan’s hear rate stayed the same between which 2 minutes of walking?
Between which 2 minutes of walking did Jonatan’s heart rate increase the most?

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Number Detective
The secret number is a whole number with seven digits.
The digit in the millions place, thousands place, and hundreds place are all the same.
To find the digit in the ten thousands place, find the product of two times two times two.
The digit in the hundred thousands place is equal to the quotient of fifty and ten.
The digit in the hundreds place is an even number that is less than six and greater than two.
What is the secret number?

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Through 1999 the lowest recorded temperature in Hawaii was 12 degrees. The highest recorded temperature was 100 degrees. Hwo much warmer was the highest temperature than the lowest temperature?
If snow is falling at a rate of 1/4 inch every 30 minutes, how much snow will fall in 4 1/2 hours?
Lima, Peru, receives an average of only 0.2 inch of rain a year. How many years of rain must fall in Lima to match the annual rainfall of 14.6 inches in Athens, Greece?

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Calculator Fun
Choose a four digit number and write it here: _______________
Write your number two times in a row: ____________ You now have an eight digit number.
Divide your number by one hundred thirty seven: ________________
Divide your number by the number you wrote in step one: ______________
Try the process again: Number: __________ Answer: _____________
Try it a third time: Number: __________ Answer: ______
Do you see a pattern? What is it?

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If the daytime high temperature was 76 degrees above zero and then dropped 40 degrees that night, what would be the temperature then?
Gerardo started a sidewalk snow-removal business. It takes him 20 minutes to clear each inch of snow that falls on an average sidewalk. Complete the chart below to show how long each snow-removal job will take. Change the time to hours and minutes whenever possible.

Snow in Inches	Time to Remove
2
2.5
5
6.25
10

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
189

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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In 1829, the Rocket, a steam locomotive, had a top speed of 29 mph. Today, the French train TGV can travel at a speed of up to 238 mph. How much faster is the TGV than the Rocket?
The Japanese Bullet train takes only 3 hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka, a distance of 321 miles. What is the average speed of the train during this trip?
The four longest railway tunnels in the world are Seikan, in Japan, 33.5 miles; Simplon No. 1 and 2, in Switzerland and Italy, 12 miles; the English Channel Tunnel, 31 miles; and Dai-shimizu, in Japan, 14 miles. What is the difference in length between the longest and the shortest of these tunnels?

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Number Detective
The secret number is a fraction.
The denominator is equal to the number of sides on an octagon.
The secret number is greater than one-half, but less than one.
The numerator is an odd number.
To find the numerator, divide fifty six by eight.
What is the secret number?

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A train is traveling from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Denver, Colorado, 480 miles away. The train travels 60 miles an hour. The train will make one 30 minute stop to pick up passengers. If the train leaves the station at 8 a.m., at what time will it arrive in Denver?
This chart shows the railroad distances from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to different cities in the United States. Use the chart to answer the following questions.
Which city is the closest to Albuquerque?
Which city is the farthest from Albuquerque?
How many fewer miles are there when traveling from Albuquerque to Denver, than from Albuquerque to Miami?
How many more miles are there when traveling from Albuquerque to Buffalo, than from Albuquerque to Tucson?

City	Distance in Miles
Amarillo, Texas	374
Baltimore, Maryland	2,102
Buffalo, New York	1,862
Cheyenne, Wyoming	583
Denver, Colorado	480
Fargo, North Dakota	1,605
Kansas City, Missouri	887
Los Angeles, California	889
Miami, Florida	2,185
Omaha, Nebraska	1,015
Salt Lake City, Utah	985
Tucson, Arizona	585

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Calculator Fun
Choose a four digit number that has different digits in each place (not 1111, 2222): _________________________
Arrange the numbers from least to greatest: _______________________
Arrange the numbers from greatest to least: _______________________
Subtract the smaller number from the larger number: _______________
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 with the answer: __________________
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 with the answer: __________________
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 with the answer: ____________
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 with the answer: ____________
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 with the answer: ____________
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 with the answer: ____________
Do you see a pattern? What is it?

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In 1980, 82% of all households in the United States had a color television set. In 1998, 99% of all households in the United States had a color television set. What percent did not have a color television set in 1980? What percent did not have a color television set in 1998?
In 1977, 17% of all United States households had cable television. In 1998, 67% had cable television. How much did the percentage of households that had cable increase from 1977 to 1998? How many years were in this study?
If a person watches 35 hours of television each week, how many hours of television would that person watch in a year? Challenge: how many days would that be?

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
74

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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In 1999, children aged 6 to 11 watched television an average of 10 1/2 hours a week. If those same children spent 30 minutes each night, Monday through Thursday, working on homework, how much time was spent on homework each week? How much more time was spent watching television?
Complete the chart to show how much time you usually spend watching TV and doing homework in a week. When it is completed, answer the following questions.
Did you watch television for more or less than 10.5 hours a week? How much more or less?
Did you work on homework more or less than 2.5 hours a week? How much more or less?

Day	Watch TV	Homework
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

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Number Detective
The secret number has two digits.
It is a decimal number that is less than two but greater than one.
If you found the secret number to the nearest whole number, you’ll get two.
The secret number is not equal to one and a half.
The digit in the tenths place is an odd number.
The digit in the tenths place is not nine.
What is the secret number?

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Zaida was reading about elephants. She learned that African elephants can be 13 feet tall at the shoulders and weigh 15,400 pounds. How much taller and heavier is an African elephant that a student who is 4 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 72 pounds?
Jazmin learned that an Asian elephant can live an average of 40 years. How many times longer is that compared to a guinea pig’s 4 years? A domestic rabbit’s 5 years? A giraffe’s 10 years? A baboon’s 20 years?
Ercilia learned that elephants in the wild can eat 165 to 330 pounds of plants each day. How many pounds of food is that in a week?

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Calculator Fun
Subtract sixty eight from one hundred nineteen. Turn the calculator upside-down. What word do you see?
Multiply nine hundred twenty six by four. Turn the calculator upside-down. What word do you see?
Add four tenths and two tenths. Turn the calculator upside-down. What word do you see?
Divide six thousand ninety by two. Turn the calculator upside-down. What word do you see?

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Diana learned that kangaroos can jump about 16 feet. During the 1996 Summer Olympics, Chioma Ajunwa from Nigeria received the gold medal for reaching 23 feet, 4.5 inches in the long jump. How much farther did Chioma Ajunwa jump than a kangaroo?
Angelica is learning about cheetahs. She discovered that a cheetah’s top running speed is 70 miles per hour. She wanted to compare this to other animals. This chart shows the top speeds of cheetahs and other animals in the world. Use the chart to answer the following questions.
Which animal or animals have a top speed that is more than three times as fast as a black mamba snake?
About how many times faster is a cheetah than a chicken?
If these animals were in a race, which animal would finish first? Fifth? Last?

Animal	Top Speed mph
Black mamba snake	20
Cheetah	70
Chicken	9
Greyhound dog	39
Lion	50
Pronghorn antelope	61
Warthog	30
Zebra	40

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The factors are….

Square the number (n2)

Cube it! (n3)

The number is odd or even

Substitute the number in this expression:
2n * 10 + n =

Write the number in expanded form:
Write the number using words:

Today’s number of the day is…..
423

List the first five multiples of the number:

Factor Trivia Challenge
If the sum (+) of the factors is greater than the number it is called “abundant”.
If the sum of the factors is less than the number it is called “deficient”.
If the sum of the factors equals the number it is called “perfect”.
Which one is today’s number?

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Each square of Paolo’s quilt has 4 triangles. His quilt has 9 squares across the width and 9 squares across the length of the quilt. How many triangles are in the quilt?
Josue’s quilt measures 72 inches by 80 inches. There are 9 squares across the width and 10 squares across the length of his quilt. What are the dimensions of each square?
Julian is making a quilt. Each square of the quilt is 10 inches by 10 inches. There are 8 squares across the length and 8 squares across the width of the quilt. What is the length and width of the quilt in feet and inches? What is the perimeter?

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Number Detective
The secret number is a mixed number.
How many faces does a cube have? That’s the whole number part of the secret number.
One part of the secret number may be considered unlucky.
Add the number of sides on a quadrilateral to the number of angles on a triangle. That’s your numerator.
Find the difference between six hundred sixty and six hundred forty seven. That’ll be your denominator.
What is the secret number?

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Michael’s quilt has 8 squares across the length and the width. If each square of the quilt cost $2.25, how much did the whole quilt cost?
Ms. Banas’ art class is having a show to display the quilts made this year. Use the clues below to determine the quilt made by each student. Write “Yes” in the box for the quilt each person made.
A woman did not make the Crazy Quilt.
Diana patterned her quilt after bouquets from her garden.
Michael’s interest in astronomy influenced his design.
Jalitza’s quilt used patriotic colors.
Zaida used a compass to make sure her shapes were accurate.

	5-Star	Flower	Crazy Quilt	Circles in Circles	Red, White, Blue	Swirly
Paolo
Jalitza
Zaida
Angelica
Michael
Diana