March
- "Problem of the Week"
From Sandy Lake, Manitoba
Sandy Lake Grade Three
1. There are 8 boxes of crayons. Each box contains 8 crayons.
How many crayons in all?
If each box of crayons costs $3.00 how much money do you
need to buy 8 boxes?
Sandy Lake - Kindergarten & Grade One
1. There are 5 children playing outside.
How many legs altogether?
x
Sandy Lake Grade Two
1. A pizza is cut into 8 slices. There are 4 children. How many
slices can each child have?
Kindergarten and Grade One
1. There were 7 birds in the tree and 2 birds on the ground.
How many birds in all?
click on the chick for answer
________________________________________________________
Grade Two
1. Jane is 7 years old. Kate is 4 years old. How much older is
Jane than Kate?
________________________________________________________
Grade Three
1. There were 2 bikes and 4 cars in the parking lot.
How many wheels in all?
From Riles Racers, Sope Creek School, Marietta, GA
Use the following data to graph how many teeth were lost by first graders in these schools in February.
Marietta GA, USA 8
Piedmont, CA, USA 14
Spring Lake, NJ, USA 6
Cornwell, Ontario, CA 2
Syracuse, NE, USA 5
Humble, TX, USA 3
How many teeth were lost in all?
Which class lost the greatest number of teeth?
Which class lost the fewest number of teeth?
Which two schools lost a total equal to Piedmont's lost teeth?
Which two classes lost a total of teeth equal to Syracuse's lost teeth?
Show two ways to equal the number of teeth lost by Marietta's class.
How many more teeth did Piedmont lose than Marietta?
If the Tooth Fairy left a dime for each lost tooth, how much money did she leave altogether?
Sandy Lake
Kindergarten and Grade One
1. Jane had 10 cents.
She bought candies for 5 cents.
How much money does Jane have now?
________________________________________________________
Grade Two
1. Kate had 20 cents.
She spent a dime and a nickel.
How much money does she have left?
________________________________________________________
Grade Three
1. A lady had $150.00. She decided to go shopping.
She bought a blouse for $80.00 and a pair of pants for $39.95.
How much money did the lady have after she finished shopping?
Sope Creek First Grade
Marietta, GA
It has rained 3 of the last 8 days.
How many days have not been rainy?
If it rains twice as many days in the next 8 days,
how many days will it rain?
Today our temperature got 13 degrees lower
than it usually does on March 26th. If it is
35 degrees, what is the temperature usually?
All participants will email a math problem along with the answers on the Monday of each week in March. The questions and answers will be posted on this web page.
Send problems to ssheeshka@rrsd.mb.ca
Please put your community's name and "problem" in the subject line.
Problems submitted previously are listed below.
Gr. 1 - 3 Sheeshka
Sandy Lake, Manitoba
Canada
Grade One Math Problem
There were 10 squirrels in a tree.
4 of them were brown.
How many were gray?
_____________________________________________________________
Grade Two Math Problem
Alison has 3 nickels.
Glenn has 1 dime and 7 pennies.
Who has more money and how much
more?
______________________________________________________________
Grade Three Math Problem
Sam has 71cents.
He has 1 dime, 1 nickel, and 6
pennies.
The rest of his money is quarters.
How many quarters does Sam have?
Grade 3 Stacy
Sioux Rapids, Indiana
Grade Three Math Problem from Sioux Central
Amanda has 1 dollar,
10 pennies,
1 nickel, and 1 quarter.
If she
wants to buy a toy
car for $2.00,
how much more money
does she need?
Grade
2 / 3 Turner
Rapid
City, Manitoba
Grade 2:
David has a dozen erasers.
He gave 4 erasers to
his friend Steven.
How many erasers
does he have left?
Grade 3: Billy's friends all live on the same side of the street as he does. He went to pick up his
friends for a soccer game.
He went down the hill 4 houses to pick up Larry.
Larry's house is the first house on the street.
He went back up the hill 7 houses to pick up Susy. He went down 3 houses again to Tammy's
house and back up 14 houses to Lindsey's.
Lindsey's house is at the end of the block.
How many houses are on Billy's street?
Gr. 2 Lawson
Tanner's Crossing School
Minnedosa, Manitoba1. Stephanie has 10 stickers. Her mom gives her 8 more. Stephanie gives her brother 7 of them. How many stickers does Stephanie have now?
2. Danny has a dollar. He buys a toy car for 58 cents and a pencil for 11 cents. How much is his change?
3. Jaycelyn has ten barbies. She sells seven Barbie's in a yard sale. She gets three Barbie's at a birthday . How many Barbie's does she
have now?4.Joe has 20 stickers. He gives 8 to Tom. His mom gives him 14 more stickers. Then he gives his friend Chris 2. How many stickers does
Joe have left?5. Jessie has 101 marbles. She finds 20 marbles on the floor. Her sister steals 22. Jessie loses 56 and then finds 10. How many
marbles does she have now?6.Amy has 16 cents. She wants to buy a model car for 50 cents. How much more money does Amy need?
7. There are 12 deer in the park. Two got scared by a truck and ran off. Two more were scared off by some hunters. Along came 9 more
deer to the park. How many deer are in the park now?8. Mitchell has 10 pets. He goes to buy 9 more at the pet store. He gives away five of the pets to a friend. How many pets does he have
left?