Week 8 - #2

This is the last blog post before the Christmas break. See you back on January 9th!!

Referring to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", how many presents did "my true love" give to his or her love?

To get you started...

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...a partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...two turle doves...

Good luck!

Happy Holidays from the students and teachers from Room 5 at George Fitton School in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada!

Week 8 - #1

It is time to do your Christmas shopping and you have saved up all year. You saved $2 in January, $4 in February, $8 in March, and $16 in April. How much money do you have to spend?

Week 7 - #2

Hannah, a hurdler, slept 8 hours 30 minutes on Monday night.

She slept 7 hours on both Tuesday and Friday night.

She slept 6 hours 20 minutes on Wednesday night.

She got up at 6:30 am on Thursday.

How much sleep did she get in the 3 nights before Thursday's meet?

Week 7 - #1

The Riddler has left a clue for Batman to follow at the scene of each crime. These are the clues that Batman has found:

(1) There is a 1 in the thousands place.

(2) The digit in the tens place is 9 times the digit in the thousands place.

(3) Multiply the digit in the thousands place by 2.

(4) The digit in the ones place is a hand without a thumb.

(5) The digit in the hundreds is 2 less than the number in the tens.

Solve the riddle to find the number and help Batman stop the Riddler.

Week 6 - #3

Using only + signs, make this statement accurate:

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = 99

Week 6 - #2

During summer vacation, Parker is planning to take his fourteen cousins to a water park near his house. The entrance fee for the park is $24.00. How much will it cost for all of them to get into the water park?

In Manitoba, patrons of the water park must pay 5% PST and 7% GST. How much PST and GST will Parker and his cousins pay?

Week 6 - #1

Ethel made a list of all the whole numbers between 1 to 100. How many times
did she write the number 2?

Week 5 - #3

In the first year of production a play sells 1572 tickets, in its second year it sells 1753 tickets, in its third year it sells 152 less than in its second year. How many tickets are sold in 3 years?

Survey Results

The correct answer to the survey question that has been up for a while is 6.

For example, using digits 1,2, and 3, they can be arranged in the following ways:

123

132

213

231

312

321

Thanks for voting!

Week 5 - #2

Drew gave Kendra half of his pogs. Kendra gave Nash half of the pogs
she received from Drew. Nash kept 8 of those pogs and gave the remaining 10
to Rose. How many pogs did Drew give Kendra?

Week 5 - #1

If you saved $2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1, $6.00 on March 1, $8.00 on April 1, and so on, how much money would you save in one year?

Week 4 - #3

Buck Pierce completed 60% of his 140 passes last season. This season, he attempted twice as many passes and completed 70% of the passes this season. How many passes did he complete?

Week 4 - #2

How many even numbers between 300 and 400 have the number 3 in them?

Week 4

This is week 4 of our challenge and we are looking for your help! The Grade 6 students of Room 5 at George Fitton School couldn't solve the problem from week 3 without help. Can you help them solve it by sharing your answer and strategy?!

The problem for week 4 is...

In a Magic Square, all the columns, rows, and diagonals add up to the same sum. Can you find the value of C in the square below?

60	70	B
A	50	D
C	E	40

Week 3

What number goes in the blank in this series?

_____, 50, 51, 53, 56

This is a long one!

Cam asked Jordan for his phone number. Jordan loves math so much that he gave Cam a riddle for each digit.

1. Multiply me by 2 and add 4. Divide that by 8, then add 3 to get 5.
2. Add 4 to me and multiply by 3. Subtract 2 then add 7 to get 32.
3. Subtract 3 from me and divide by 2. Now add 5, then multiply by 3 to get 24.
4. Add 7 to me and multiply by 2. Now subtract 4, then divide by 3 to get 4.
5. Multiply me by 3 and add 9. Now divide by 6, then add 3 to get 8.
6. Subtract 2 from me and divide by 5. Now add 6, then multiply by 2 and you get 14.
7. Divide me by 2, then add 11. Now multiply by 3, then subtract 27 and you get 18.

What is Jordan's phone number? What was the trick to answering this question?

Week 2 - Problem #3

Sidney Crosby is thinking of two numbers. Their greatest common factor is 6. Their least common multiple is 36. One of the numbers is 12. What is the other number?

Here We Go Again...

Thanks to all of our visitors! We love checking every day to see how many people have viewed our blog. Please feel free to post a comment even after the answer has been posted. If you tried to comment but weren't able to, I have made some changes that should now allow you to comment. Here is the second problem for this week:

Jenny bought 7 t-shirts, one for each of her seven brothers, for $9.95 each.
The cashier charged her an additional $13.07 in sales tax. She left the store
with a measely $7.28. How much money did Jenny start with?

The First Problem

This is the first problem/challenge. Work together with your class and then when you have the answer, comment on this post and include the following:

• The answer.
• If applicable, the strategies you used to arrive at the answer.
  

Uncle Henry was driving to Halifax when he spotted a big green gorilla on the side of the road. He screeched to a stop, jumped out of his car. He saw the outline of a number on the gorilla. He couldn't quite see the number, but he knew it was a 4 digit number. And:

1) He remembered seeing a number 1.

2) In the hundred's place he remembers the number is 3 times the number in the thousand's place.

3) He said the number in the one's place is 4 times the number in the ten's place.

4) Finally he said the number 2 is sitting in the thousand's place.

What is the number?

Let The Games Begin!

Hello all!

I am a grade 6 teacher in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. I am creating this blog to bring together grade 6 classes across the province, country, and maybe even world!

Every few days, my class and I will post a math challenge. We will race to see who can get the answer first! Don't worry, Grade 6BG won't know the answer when we post the questions! :)

The answer post should include the answer and the strategies used to arrive at the answer. Post a challenge back to make it more interesting! If you don't want to post your challenge, email it to me and I will post it for you! Comment on the problem post to share your answer!

We will start the challenge on November 1st, 2011!