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!