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Team #: _______________ 3rd grade Score: _____/ 5

Round 1

1. There are five sugar cookies and one chocolate chip cookie in a bag. If Brittany takes onecookie out of the bag without looking, it is _________ that she will get a chocolate chipcookie.

a) impossible

b) likely

c) unlikely

2. Thomas is between a rock and a hard place. His car gets 16 miles to the gallon. He has about5 gallons left in the tank. How much more gas does he need to drive the remaining 176 mileshome?

3. Choose the unit that should be used to measure the length of a gingerbread man (a little largerthan a cookie).

a) cm

b) m

c) km

4. Lauren has 2 liters of milk to pour into glasses. If each glass holds 250 milliliters of milk,how many glasses can she fill?

5.On Christmas Day Matthew and Alyssa made a snowman. The outside temperature on Christmasday must be:

a) 40 degrees Fahrenheitb) 10 degrees Celsiusc) 32 degrees Celsiusd) 32 degrees Fahrenheit

Circle all correct answers.


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Round 2

1. Rebecca is very short. She is only two and a half feet tall. Her brother is forty-four inchestall. Rebecca doesn't like being short. She would like to grow as tall as her brother. Howmany inches would she have to grow to be forty-four inches tall?

a) 1 foot 3 inchesb) One and a half footc) 14 inchesd) One and a quarter foot

2. Anthony built a snow fort. It took him 2 hours and 18 minutes to build it. He finished the fortat 12:03 p.m. What time did he start building the fort?

3. Natalie made peanut butter fudge to give to her teacher, her two aunts, her eight friends, andher grandmother. She wants to gift five pieces of fudge to each of her friends, six pieces toeach aunt, seven pieces to grandma, and 10 to the teacher. How many pieces of fudge willshe need?a) 59b) 69c) 49

4. Timothy Troll lived in a log. One winter day, it was cold and he couldnt make a fire. Hedecided that he was going to steal blankets from other people. He stole 5 blankets fromCameron, 4 from Shelby and five from Zachary. How many blankets does Timothy Trollhave now?

5. Sierra used 38 ft of border to make a rectangular bulletin board about Paul Revere. Thebulletin board is 12 ft long. What is the area of the board?a) 48 sq ftb) 84 sq ft

c) 144 sq ft



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Round 3

1. Kyle built a birdhouse. The front of the birdhouse is 4 inches wide and 6 inches high. Hecut a round door out of the front. The area of the door is 4.7 square inches What is thearea of the rest of the front of the birdhouse?

2. Sean's family strings popcorn and cranberries to put on their Christmas tree. They madesix strings of popcorn and four strings of cranberries. Each popcorn string was four feetlong and cranberry string was six feet long. How long were the strings all together?

3. Eddie Elf packs fruitcakes in boxes. He wraps each fruitcake in four square feet of redpaper. Then he puts five fruitcakes in each box.

How many fruitcakes can he wrap with 100 square feet of paper?a) 20b) 25c) 30d) 24

How many boxes will he fill with fruitcakes?a) 4b) 5c) 6

4. Mr. Allen built a deck on the back of his house. The deck was 12 feet long and 9 feetwide. What is the perimeter of the deck in yards?a) 42

b) 14

c) 16


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Round 4

1. Order the fractions from smallest to largest.

, , 2/8

2. Connie has 3 times as many nickels as dimes. If she has 40 in dimes. How much moneydoes she have altogether?

3. Ashley is twice as old as Carlos. Billy is 5 years younger than Ashley. The sum of the ages

of the three children is 25. How old is Carlos, in years?

4. If a frog can jump 3 feet, how many jumps are needed for the frog to cover a distance of10 yards?

5. Amy's brother is now 10 years old. Two years ago she was as old as he is now. How oldwill Amy be in 3 years?



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Round 5

1. Christine made chocolate chip cookies to give to her teacher, three uncles, five friends, andher grandmother. She wants to gift five cookies to each of her friends, six cookies to eachuncle, seven to grandma, and 10 to the teacher. If each cookie weighs 2 Oz, how manyounces of cookies will she need?

2. Mr. Johnsons dog gave birth to several puppies last summer. Total number of legs, eyes,and tails of the puppies added up to be 49. How many puppies Mr. Johnsons dog had?

Assume that all puppies were normal.

3. Bobbys mom cut pizza in eight equal pieces. She gave 1/8 of pizza to Bobbys little brotherJohnny, of pizza to his dad, 3/8 of pizza to his big brother Matt and rest to Bobby. Howmany slices were left for Bobby?

4. Matthew has a box for his rock collection. The box is filled with clear plastic cubes. Eachcube holds one rock. The box is six cubes long, four cubes high, and three cubes wide. Howmany rocks will fit in the box?a) 24b) 12c) 18d) 72

5. Bobby ran 1 mile in a track competion in 5 minutes. How far can he run in one hour?


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Round 6

1. One day Andy, Bobby, and Chris were playing together with marbles. Bobby noticed that hehad twice as many marbles as Andy but only half as many marbles as Chris. If all of theirmarbles when added together were 14, how many marbles each of them must have?

2. Matthews mom drops him to school every morning but he walks back to home from schoolevery afternoon. Matthews mom drives three blocks West and four blocks North to reach theschool in the morning from their home. On the way back from school, Matthew first walksEast, and then South to reach home. Matthew noticed that this makes a perfect rectangle.

How many blocks does Mathhew walk every afternoon?

3. Mr. Wilsons rectangular flowerbed measures 30 yards. Mr. Wilson noticed that he candivide the bed in two equal squares. How long is each side of the original rectangular flowerbed?

4. Samantha had $0.82 in quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. She has an equal number ofeach coin. How many nickels does she have?

5. If Christmas is on a Monday, what day will be new years eve ?


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Round 7

1. Manny went to carnival with his mom. Manny bought cotton candy, funnel cake, and ice cream for atotal $5.67. If he paid $2.49 for cotton candy, and $1.79 for funnel cake, how much did the ice

cream cost?

2. If Maxxs mom and dad work together, they can rake the whole yard in four hours. How long wouldit take for Maxxs dad to rake the yard by himself?

3. Monica and her brother Andrew love to read Harry Potter books. Andrew reads 20 pages in onehour. If Monica reads twice as fast as Andrew, how long would it take Monica to read the 400 pages

of the Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban?

4. Jennifer made cups of hot chocolate on National Hugging Day. Each cup held 150 ______ of hot

chocolate.a) meters

b) liters

c) milliliters

d) inches

5. Everyone in Morgan's class drew a picture of a dragon on the Chinese New Year. The teacher put allthe pictures on the bulletin board. Of the dragons, 1/6 were green, 1/4 were yellow, 1/3 were

brown, and 1/4 were purple. If there were 12 brown dragons on the bulletin board, how many

dragons did Morgan's class draw in total?


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Round 8

1. On National Compliment Day Timothy complimented 12 people. Of those people, 1/2 were in his

family, 1/3 were his neighbors, and the rest were his friends. How many friends did Timothy

compliment?

2. There are twenty five students in Miss Anderson's class. The students are making hats for the

kindergarten students to celebrate Hat Day. If they made 75 hats in all, how many hats each student

made?

3. Anna went to the store to buy gloves. She bought pink gloves with a red ribbon. Thegloves cost $6.35. She gave the clerk $10. How much change did Anna get back?

4. Mrs. Smiths sixth grade class has twelve students who chose to play violin, six cello, four base, and

three chose to play viola. Five of the students chose not to participate in the strings. What fraction of

students chose cello?

5. Mandy and Sandy are sisters. Sandy is three times as old as Mandy. If sum of their age is twenty, how

old is Mandy?


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Round 9

1. How many odd numbers are greater than 10 and less than 20?

2. Mr. Allens nephew Bradley and niece Brenda are twenty one years old together. Brenda is twice

as old as Bradley. How old is Bradley?

3. 8 more than 9 equals 10 more than___________?

4. The 3rd grade class had a fruitcake-tossing contest. The winner tossed the fruitcake 12 feet 4

inches. The second place ribbon went to Jamie. Jamie tossed his fruitcake 11 feet 11 inches. How

much longer was the winner's toss than Jamie's?

5. On National Do Nothing Day, Mrs. Lewis ordered three 12" pizzas for lunch. One pizza was cut

into 8 pieces. One was cut into 6 pieces. One was cut into 12 pieces. Which pizza had the largest

pieces?


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Round 10

1. Megan put red, white, and blue ribbons on name tags. Her class was having an Inauguration Day

party. When she finished, she had 10 ribbons left. Of the ribbons, 3/10 were red, 2/5 were blue,

and the rest were white. How many white ribbons were there?

2. Dylan has a cube with a different color on each side. It is part of his Knights and Dragons game. If

he rolls the cube and it has red, blue, or green up, he moves five spaces. If it has any other color

up, he moves two spaces. What is the probability he will move five spaces on his first roll?

3. Amanda went to the library. She wanted to read about Emperor Penguins. She spent 25 minutes

looking for just the right book, and then read for 41 minutes. Then she left the library at 12:16

p.m. At what time did Amanda start looking for her book?

4. Taylor collects stickers of marine animals. She had 42 extra stickers. She shared them equally

with 6 friends. How many stickers did each friend get?

5. Ms. Moore is making a stuffed penguin for her grandson's birthday. She paid $6.18 for the fabric,

$0.89 for the eyes, $0.44 for the thread, and $1.22 for the stuffing. She also paid $1.67 for a bow

to put on the penguin's neck. She could have bought a stuffed penguin from a store for $24. How

much did she save by making the penguin herself?


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Round 1 ANSWERS

1. C2. 63. A4. 85. D

Round 2 ANSWERS1. C2. 9:45 AM3. B 694. 145. B

Round 3 ANSWERS

1. 19.32. 483. B, B4. A

Round 4 ANSWERS

1. 2/8, ,

2. $1

3. 6

4. 105. 15

Round 5 ANSWERS1. 120 Oz2. 73. 2 slices4. 72 = 6 x 4 x 35. 12 miles


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Round 6 Answers

1. 2 (Andy) 4 (Bobby) 8 (Chris)2. 73. 5 yards and 10 yards.

4. 2

5. Sunday

Round 7 Answers

1. $1.392. 8 hours3. 10 hours4. milliliters5. 36

Round 8 ANSWERS

1. 22. 33. $3.654. 1/55. 5

Round 9 Answers

1. 52. 73. 74. 5

5. Pizza with 6 pieces has largest slices

Round 10 ANSWERS

1. 32. 1/23. 11:10 AM4. 75. $13.60

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