Last week Noah suggested that we post the answers. Here are last Wednesday’s answers: Ginger had 104 stickers Laird had 72 Pokemon cards Oliver read 610 pages and Stella had 45 tennis balls.
Here are some new problems for you to solve. Solve them as efficiently as you can. Leave your work and your answers in a comment when you do.
Marianna went trick-or-treating. She went to 24 houses. At each house she got 3 pieces of candy. How many pieces of candy to Marianna get when she went trick-or-treating?
Nick was drawing a castle. He was drawing the bricks on the towers. The towers were 17 bricks tall and 5 bricks wide. How many bricks did Nick draw on one tower? There there four towers on the castle. How many bricks did Nick draw altogether on the castle towers?
Tim was practicing for the soccer tournament. He practiced shooting on goal 15 times for 6 days in a row. How many times did he take a shot on goal altogether?
Ronan was making a design in art by writing his name over and over in a pattern. When he was done he had filled the paper. Ronan had written his name 32 times. How many individual letters had Ronan written on his paper?
Happy Mathing!
Oliver solved all the math problems. Here are his answers.
For Nick’s castle problem: He multiplied 17×5=85..using the distributive property in math. (10×5 = 50 and 7×5=35, then add together and get 85) Then, take the 85 and multiply by 4, which equaled 340!
For Tim’s problem: he multiplied 15×6 = 90..also using the distributive property again.
For Ronan’s problem: it was a bit more challenging. Oliver ha to think about the question being asked. We talked about it and he realized that he had to take the 5 letters in Ronan’s name and multiply by 32…which was 32×5=160.
Oliver,
Thank you for working to solve all the problems and sharing your work with your mom and with us. It is great to know that you are using all that we are learning in the classroom on your own. I hope you feel proud of yourself for working through each of the challenges both the math part and the reading to understand part. Your effort shows!
Mrs. Eaves