News and Notes
November 17, 2008
Debby Kramb
Area 4 ALTs
Just for fun!
Thanksgiving/ Math Word Problems
Use the season to liven up your standards!
Mrs. Owens was making Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people. She had to make pumpkin pies. Each pie had 8 pieces. Everyone loved her pies so much that each person wanted 2 pieces! How many pies would Mrs. Owens have to make? Would she have any pie left over?
Draw a picture to help you figure out the problem. When you are finished, explain how you got your answer.
Answer ______Any leftovers? ______
I got my answer by
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President Lincoln did many great things and one of the greatest things he did was declare the last Thursday in November 1863 a day to give thanks. After that, it became an annual celebration, and next Thursday we'll celebrate Thanksgiving again. How many Thanksgivings have there been since President Lincoln's declaration?
( One thanksgiving per year 2007-1863=144, which means that 2008 Thanksgiving hasn’t occurred yet!)
Turkey Math
According to the National Turkey Federation:
In 2007, about 273 million turkeys were raised. We estimate that 45 million of those turkeys were eaten at Thanksgiving, 22 million at Christmas and 19 million at Easter.
1. Post this statistic at the math center.
2. Ask your kids to find the percentage of turkeys eaten for each holiday.
3. Then have them find out the average number of turkeys eaten per day for the rest of the year.
4. You can also challenge them to find the average number of turkey eaten per person based on the population being 273 million in 1999. They can estimate the pounds of turkey per person based on an average weight per turkey of 15 pounds.
5. Make sure they show all their work!
How Much for a Turkey?
The following problem is a bit of a classic:
Among Grandfather's papers a bill was found:
72 turkeys $_67.9_
The first and last digit of the number that obviously represented the total proice of those fowls are illegible and are replaced here by blanks. What are the two faded digits and what was the price of one turkey?
And others…
Mrs. Phillpott is a cook for the Thornberry family. She usually makes a 5 pound roast for dinner on Thursdays. She knows that it takes 2 1/2 hours to cook this roast. Her boss is having a dinner party and she needs to make more food. She decides that she needs 15 pounds of meat. The problem is that she only has one oven and it will not hold a roast bigger than 10 pounds. How could she solve this problem? Answer in paragraph form.
Sadie went to the store with a $10 bill. She spent $4.76. Give 6 possible ways she could get her change. She cannot use the same number of coins twice. (You cannot say 5 one dollar bills, 2 dimes, 4 pennies, and then a $5 bill 2 dimes and 4 pennies.) She must use each type of United States coin at least once.
A farmer grows 196 pounds of potatoes. He sells them to a grocer who divides them into 5 pound and 2 pound bags. If the grocer uses the same number of 5 pound and 2 pound bags, how many bags of each did he use?
Pumpkin Problems
1. Ronnie is getting ready for his annual pumpkin sale. He’s set up 30 rows of pumpkins with 125 pumpkins in each row. How can he figure out how many pumpkins that is?
a. Add 125 plus 30.
b. Subtract 30 from 125.
c. Multiply 125 by 30.
d. Divide 125 by 30.
2. Farmer Cheryl expects to sell 5,000 pumpkins at her sale. She is charging seven dollars per pumpkin. How can she figure out the total revenue (money taken in) from the sale?
a. Add five thousand dollars plus seven dollars.
b. Subtract seven dollars from five thousand dollars.
c. Multiply five thousand dollars by seven dollars.
d. Multiply five thousand by seven dollars.
3. Carla bought a pumpkin at the supermarket for $8.99 and sold it to Anthony for $10.99. What was her profit (money she came out ahead)?
a. $2.00
b. $19.98
c. She didn’t make any profit at all.
d. Some unknown amount over twenty dollars.
4. Which is a better price for three pumpkin pies?
a. Three pies for six dollars
b. Two dollars each
c. Buy two pies for three dollars each and get a third pie for free.
d. All of the above deals are the same.
5. Paula Pumpkin is heavier than Peter Pumpkin. Patrick Pumpkin weighs less than Peter Pumpkin. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
a. Paula Pumpkin weighs more than Patrick Pumpkin.
b. Peter Pumpkin weighs less than Paula Pumpkin.
c. Patrick Pumpkin weighs more than Paula Pumpkin.
6. Pretty Pammy Perry prepared twenty perfect pumpkin pies. She placed one half of them in a package and put the rest of them in her car. She drove the pies in her car to Pittsburgh. She sold half of those pies and ate the rest of them. How many pumpkin pies did pretty Pammy Perry eat?
7. Ryan had 74 pumpkin seeds. He put as many seeds as possible into eight bags, being careful to make sure that each bag had the same number of seeds. He could not put ______seeds into the bags.
8. There are 5,097 pumpkins in Gwen’s pumpkin patch. There are 7,000 pumpkins in Andy’s pumpkin patch. How can we figure out how many more pumpkins are in Andy’s pumpkin patch than in Gwen’s?
a. It’s impossible to calculate from the given information.
b. Add 5,097 and 7,000.
c. Multiply 5,097 by 7,000.
d. Subtract 5,097 from 7,000.
Turkey Terminator Computer game (fractions)
http://www.kidsnumbers.com/turkey-terminator-math-game.php
Turkey Bingo
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/bingo/numbers/onedigit/turkey/
Last but not least – a little logic?
Anthony is hosting Thanksgiving this year. He invited his family (Amanda, Hunter, Megan, Julia, Jose, Matthew, Alexis, and David) to his house. His grandfather, his aunt, his brother, his grandmother, his father, his sister, his mother, and his uncle all had a great time at his house!
Figure out how each person is related to Anthony and make a family tree.
2. / Matthew is Anthony's father.
3. / Hunter is Anthony's brother.
4. / Julia has no children.
5. / David is Matthew's father.
6. / Alexis is Matthew's sister.
7. / Hunter is Julia's brother.
8. / Megan is not Anthony's grandmother.