Thursday, July 26, 2012

Word problems

Parker has finished the fourth grade curriculum. I don't think I'm going to start with the 5th grade, but not sure yet.  Until I decide, I'm trying different stuff on each day. Today assignment was to write three world problems for me to solve using any kind of math including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, shapes, angles, area, perimeter, fractions, etc.

Here they are:

1. Eli was camping with he family. There are five people in her family. Each person is Ely's family (notice the switch to Y rather than I) had three smores each night.  Ely's family stayed for three nights.  What is the minimum number of marshmellows Eli's (And back to "I") family must bring?  (Assuming only one marshmellow per smores.)

2. Max was shoping and he was looking for oranges.  When he brough t them home he took them out and weighed them. The bag of oranges weighed 12 pounds and there were 6 oranges.  If max only bought oranges, how many ounces did he buy?

I like that he threw in the 6 oranges thing but it had no impact.


3.  He drew a right angel and then drew the angel mark on the outside of it (to indicate 270 degrees.)  Then he said what is the picture divided by 3. And he wanted the answer in two ways.





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