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Plant Growth
Beth’s plant is inches tall. Judy’s plant is twice as tall. How tall is Judy’s plant? Draw your solution.
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Shoes
There are 15 pairs of shoes in Lebron’s closet. Two-Thirds of the pairs are basketball shoes. How many pairs of basketball shoes does Lebron have?
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Leftover Pizza
Shelley and her sister found of a pizza in the refrigerator. Shelley’s sister told Shelley that she wanted of the remaining pizza. If Shelley gives her sister what she wants, how much pizza will Shelley have left?
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Explain how you solved the problem.
Cookies for Cinco de Mayo
Mr. Perez bought 4 dozen cookies for his Spanish class’ Cinco de Mayo
celebration. The students only ate of the cookies, so Mr. Perez put the remaining
cookies in the teachers’ lounge. When he returned after school, of the cookies he had left in the teachers’ lounge were gone. What part of the cookies Mr. Perez bought was left uneaten after school?
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Explain how you solved the problem.
Challenge: How many cookies did the students eat? How many cookies disappeared from the teacher’s lounge? How many cookies were left uneaten? Justify your answers.
Poodle Skirts
Mrs. Townsend is making poodle skirts for the 50s rock-and-roll show. She purchased 12 yards of fabric. If each skirt requires yards of fabric, how many skirts can she make?
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Explain how you solved this problem.
Rope It Off
How many 9-inch pieces of rope can be cut from 1 yards of rope?
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Orange Juice
Marita has 2 gallons of orange juice concentrate. It takes gallon to make a pitcher of orange juice. How many pitchers can she make?
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May be copied for classroom use. © 2008 by Joy Bronston Schackow and Susan O’Connell from Introduction to Problem Solving: Grades 6–8 (Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH).