CHRISTMAS WORD PROBLEMS

1. Pixie makes 80 snowballs. Her brother throws 17 of them. She splits the remainder of the snowballs into 9 groups. How many snowballs are in each group?

2. There are 5 candy canes that all have 5 stripes on them. One other candy cane has 7 stripes on it. How many stripes do all of the candy canes have altogether?

3. There are 7 Christmas trees in the house. There are 2 presents under each tree. Someone takes away 5 presents. How many presents are still in the house?

4. Four stockings have 5 gifts in them. There are also 25 gifts on the ground. How many more gifts are on the ground than in the stockings?

5. Layla and her friends were making snowballs to have a snowball fight. Layla made 28 snowballs. Her friends made some more. They made 73 snowballs in all. How many snowballs did her friends make?

6. Jim has 18 cookies. If Jim invites 5 friends over, how many cookies can each person have?

7. There are 83 penguins. Twenty-five penguins hatch from their eggs. Sixty-seven mother penguins come home additionally. How many penguins are there? A third of the penguins leave to find food. How many penguins are left?

WINTER WORD PROBLEMS

Complete the Following Word Problems:

1. Brenda built 2 snowmen each day for 2 weeks while visiting her aunt in Vermont last winter. How many snowmen did she build in those weeks?

2. Paul spent 35 hours this winter skiing. His girlfriend Nancy spent 23 hours skiing. How many more hours did Paul spend skiing than Nancy?

3. Tina wants to spend $500 on Christmas presents. Tina spent $108 at the mall Christmas shopping. She also spent $262 buying presents online. How much money did Tina spend so far? How much money does she have left?

4. Jesse has $416 to spend on 4 of his friends for Christmas. What is the greatest amount of money he can spend on each of his friend’s gifts?

5. Dennis has prepared 21 snowballs for a snowball fight with Conner. Conner has twice the amount of snowballs as Dennis. How many snowballs do the boys have all together?

SOLVE THE EQUATION

THANKSGIVING DINNER

You have $100 to plan your own Thanksgiving dinner for six people! You can buy whatever food you want to eat. Feel free to use the internet to come up with exact prices of food.

• What food are you going to have?

• How much money did you spend?

• Do you have any money leftover?

• Did you learn anything about the cost of food?

GRAPHING THANKSGIVING FOOD

Survey your family and friends and ask them what their favorite Thanksgiving food is. Include at least 5 types of food and 10 people (you can include yourself), and then create a graph to show your results. You can create any type of graph that you want (line, bar, pie).

NUMBER SCAVENGER HUNT

We are going to do a number scavenger hunt! Find items around your house with numbers on them (examples include ingredient labels, recipes, books, clocks, etc.) and make equations using the numbers you find. Try and do at least three addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.

BUILD A NUMBER

Build a number answering the questions using the following digits: 6 7 0 3 .

Build the largest number.

Build the smallest number.

Build a number between 60 and 70.

Build a number less than 6.

Build a different number less than 6.

Build a number that rounds to 70.

Build a number that rounds to 4.

Build a number between 600 and 700.

Build a number that is closest to 30.

Ex: Using the following digits: 1 2 3 4 .

Build the largest number. 4231

Build a number between 20 and 30. 24

Build the smallest number. .1

Build a number that rounds to 3. 3.2

FACTOR GAME

1) Find a partner to play this game with you.

2) Write the numbers 1-30 on a piece of paper.

3) Player 1 chooses a number and marks it (you can circle it, color it, cross it out). They will then find all of the possible factors that they can find. Player 2 will mark all the remaining factors that player 1 missed.

4) Each player receives the points for the number of factors they found. 5) Next, player 2 will choose a number, following the same steps but swapping who goes first and continue the pattern until all possible numbers have been completely factored.

6) If a player chooses a non-factorable number, they lose a point and their turn is skipped.

GRAPH THE WEATHER

Fill in the following chart using the weather each day. After you have filled in the chart, figure out a way to graph the temperatures. You can use any type of graph you want, as long as you have the information and the graphs are clearly labeled!

MONEY WORD CHALLENGE

Using the letters with dollar amounts below, find the answers to

the following questions:

A. $1

B. $2

C. $3

D. $4

E. $5

F. $6

G. $7

H. $8

I. $9

J. $10

K. $11

L. $12

M.$13

N. $14

O. $15

P. $16

Q. $17

R. $18

S. $19

T. $20

U. $21

V. $22

W.$23

X. $24

Y. $25

Z. $26

1) What is your name worth?

Example: Kelsey(11+5+12+19+5+25) = $77

2) What is the worth of the longest word you can think of?

Example: Veterinarian(22+5+20+5+18+9+14+1+18+9+1+14)= $136

3) What is the word of the highest number you can come up with and how

much is it worth?

4) What is the word with the smallest amount of worth?

CREATIVE WORD PROBLEMS

For this week’s math assignment, create your own word problems for the following equations and then solve them:

Miss. Kelsey’s Example: Stitch has 21 cookies and Lilo is making him share with her and one other friend. How many cookies will each of them get?

1. 5 x 12 2. 21 / 3 3. 64 / 8 4. 9 x 7 5. 0.5 x 24

PAPER CUP ENGINEERING

Create a cup that can hold as much water as possible for at least 10 seconds

from just one sheet of paper.