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Seven girls blew some bubbles. Three girls each

blew 6 bubbles. Four girls each blew 3 bubbles. How many bubbles

did they blow in all?

Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information

Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

Mr. Walker hid 55 eggs. The children found 48 eggs.

How many eggs were not found?



Ms. Young made a cake for her class. They had their own holiday.

It was called "So Smart Second Graders Day."

She had 48 blue candy stars. She put some on the cake.

There were 17 stars left. How many did she put on the cake?



Hunter plays basketball for JHHS. During Friday's game, he made

eight baskets and eight free throws. A basket scores two points and a

free throw scores one point. How many points did Hunter

make in Friday's game?



Christopher had to pay tax on each of the items he bought.

He paid sixty-two cents tax on the lock, $6.90 tax on the wooden chest,

and $3.09 tax on the new toy. How much tax did Christopher pay altogether?



9 boys in a boy scout troop washed the same number of cars at the car wash.

They washed 63 altogether. How many cars did each scout wash?



Jill gave $7.38 to buy a book and received $2.45 cents back as change.how much did the book cost?



Albert and 3 friends had a total of 12 books. They put an equal number

of books onto 2 shelves. What was the total

number of books on each shelf?



The Mississippi river was 37 inches below normal at the end of January.

During February the river rose 9 inches.

How far below normal was the river at the end of February?



A taxi charges seventy-one cents for the 2 miles 15 cents for each

additional mile. Brad took a taxi for 7 miles. How much did Brad pay?



Alexis likes to chew bubble gum. Monday she bought three packages

of bubble gum for $1.41 each. She gave the clerk $5.

How much change should Alexis get?



Jo has a collection of coins in her pocket. She has nickels, dimes and pennies. If the total amount of money she has in her pocket is $.83 cents,

what coins could she have?



The sum of two numbers is 9. The difference of the same

two numbers is 1. What are the two numbers?



Bill has some quarters, 3 dollars, 6 dimes, and 5 pennies. If Bill

has $4.55 all together, how many quarters does Bill have?



The Simpsons' trip to Madagascar will last from May 23 to June 7.

How many days is this?



Alex is making a pattern. He has 10 red beads, 15 white beads and

12 blue beads. How can he string the beads so that

his pattern repeats at lest 4 times. You do not

have to use all the beads.



Greg measured an area of a square to be 16 ft. Albert measured one

side of the square to be 4 ft. What is the perimeter of this square?



Ashanti cut a ribbon into 6 yards. How many feet of

ribbon does she have?



Cortez wants to put fence around his vegetable garden. The garden is

a square. He measured on side and it is 6ft.

How much fencing will he need to go around the entire garden?



Mr. Moore made up a holiday. His holiday is "Tall as a Tower Day."

Mr. Moore is very tall. He is 6 ft 2 in. tall.

His best friend is 5 inches shorter than he is. How tall is Mr. Moore's

best friend?



Jasmine baked an apple pie for her family for dinner. She cut the pie

into eight pieces. Her father ate one-fourth of the pie,

her mother ate one-eighth of the pie, her older brother

ate three pieces of pie, and Jasmine ate the rest.

How many pieces of pie did Jasmine eat?



Stephanie needs at least 35 minutes to get ready for the Easter parade.

The parade begins at 3:00 p.m. What is the latest she can start

getting ready?



A diagram included seven hexagons, eleven circles, eight pentagons, twelve

squares, and six rays. How many polygons are in the diagram?



Amy's playhouse is exactly 7 feet by 8 feet. If Amy wants to put a carpet on the floor,

how much carpeting is needed



If a car can hold 4 people, how many cars are needed for 25 people?



The drama club would like to have fifty-four people see a play at the

same time. If they want to have 6 rows,

how many chairs should they put in each row?



Jane is flying from New York to San Francisco

with a stop in Chicago. The plane will land in Chicago at

1:23 p.m. and will take off for San Francisco at 3:06 p.m..

How much time will Jane be at Chicago?



Thomas needs 3 quarts of water for his aquarium. He only has a pint jar to

measure the water in. How many times will he need to fill the jar to get the 3 quarts?



Southside is collecting pennies for charity. The fourth grade used

Pringle cans. Each can holds 600 pennies.

The fourth grade collected 4 cans. Third grade is

using coke cans. Each can holds 250 pennies.

Third grade collect 9 cans?.Which grade collected the most money?



The diameter of a circle painted by Michael is 12 feet. What is the

length of its radius?



Alexandra made up a holiday. She called it

"Pink Popcorn Day." She made 6 cups of pink popcorn.

She put the same amount of popcorn in 3 bowls.

How many cups of popcorn were in each bowl



Monday Derrick found 23 seashells. On Tuesday he found

12 seashells. On Wednesday he found 37 seashells. He lost 15

seashells on Thursday, but found 32 more on Friday. How

many does he have now?



Raul is planting a garden. He has 4 rows of corn

and 6 rows of peas. Each row has 8 plants. How many

plants does he have in all?



Sanchez has finished 2/3 of his project.

Maria has finished 33% of her project and Nicholas has

finished .50 of his project. Who has finished the most?



Mr. Yang gets the newspaper everyday.

The paper cost fifty cents Monday-Saturday.

It cost a $1.50 on Sunday. How much money would his

newspaper cost for the month of May? (Hint: May has 31 days,

but only 4 of them are Sunday).



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