Show Your Work. Explain With Pictures, Words, or Numbers.: Input Output
Show Your Work. Explain With Pictures, Words, or Numbers.: Input Output
Show Your Work. Explain With Pictures, Words, or Numbers.: Input Output
2 25
6 57
4 41
7 ??
9 ??
3 ??
If n is the input number, then the output is found
by multiplying n by 8 and adding 9: 8n + 9.
Card 1 Set C
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Michael parks his car from 11:30 a.m. to words, or numbers.
4:45 p.m. in the “Stay-U-Pay” parking lot.
How much will he owe the parking attendant
if he pays the least expensive rate?
STAY-U-PAY
First Hour $0.75
Each Additional Hour $0.60
Daily Rate (Over 6 Hours) $3.00
Card 2 Set C
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The president of the county PTA organization makes
copies of membership lists for all of the elementary
words, or numbers.
schools. Sometimes she may need only a few copies but
at other times she needs thousands of copies.
Card 3 Set C
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Tyrone was born 62 months before words, or numbers.
Michael. Alba was born 11 months after
Michael, in March 1981. What are the
birth months and years for the three
friends?
Card 4 Set C
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Describe how to fold this "map" so that the words, or numbers.
numbered sections lie on top of each other
in order from 1 to 8.
3 4 2 7
6 5 1 8
Card 5 Set C
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At BizBiz Pizza the token machine takes words, or numbers.
one-dollar and five-dollar bills. The owner
of Biz Biz knows that kids will want to
come back if they have tokens left over.
Card 6 Set C
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Find the sum. words, or numbers.
23 + 25 + 27 + 23 + 25 + 27 +
23 + 25 + 27 + 23 + 25 + 27 +
23 + 25 + 27 + 23 + 25 + 27
Card 7 Set C
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Ten people met at a party. They all words, or numbers.
exchanged handshakes. How many
handshakes were exchanged?
A B C D E F
Card 10 Set C
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What is the area of each black and white words, or numbers.
piece if the whole square measures 20 cm on
each side? Explain how you got your answer.
Card 11 Set C
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The cost of making money varies from words, or numbers.
coin to coin:
Pennies 0.8 cents each
Nickels 2.9 cents each
Dimes 1.7 cents each
Quarters 3.7 cents each
Half dollars 7.8 cents each
What is the cost of making $5.00 worth of
each coin?
Card 13 Set C
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Which is correct more of the time: a watch words, or numbers.
that doesn’t work at all, or a watch that
loses one minute each hour?
Card 14 Set C
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Color this square so that one-half is green, words, or numbers.
one-third is yellow and and the rest is brown.
Each triangle should be just one color.
Make any
pattern you
like.
How much
of the square
is brown?
Card 15 Set C
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What information about the people in this words, or numbers.
room would fit these graphs? Title and
label the graphs.
Card 16 Set C
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The answer is A and C. What is the words, or numbers.
question? Write a question with a different
answer.
A
.
B
.
C
.
D
.
E
.
Card 17 Set C
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Eight one-inch cubes are put together to make words, or numbers.
a “T”. If the complete figure is painted blue,
how many cubes have exactly four blue faces?
Card 18 Set C
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The first term of an arithmetic sequence is words, or numbers.
4 and the 10th term is 58. List the first 10
terms of the sequence. What if the first
term is 9 and the 10th term is 90? What
would the sequence be?
Card 19 Set C
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If the first day of a certain month is words, or numbers.
Thursday, what day of the week is the 21st
day of the same month? On what day of
the month will the 17th day be? If the first
day of a new year falls on a Monday, what
day of the week will February 14 fall on?
Card 20 Set C
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A lizard is 100 feet away from the tree he words, or numbers.
wanted to climb. At the end of the first
minute he has traveled half of the distance to
the tree. At the end of the second minute he
has traveled half of the remaining distance.
At the end of the third minute he has traveled
half of that remaining distance.
Card 21 Set C
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Crack the code: words, or numbers.
If • =2 and
• • = 72
• = =
Card 22 Set C
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If you continue this pattern: words, or numbers.
ababbabbbabbbb. . .
what will be the 100th letter?
Card 23 Set C
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words, or numbers.
What is the greatest number of 4-inch by
6-inch rectangular pieces of glass, for
inserting into picture frames, that can be
cut from a rectangular sheet of glass that
measures 2 feet by 4 feet?
Card 24 Set C
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A book has 600 pages which are numbered words, or numbers.
1, 2, 3 and so on. How many times does
the digit 5 appear in the page numbers?
Card 25 Set C
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words, or numbers.
There are 16 toothpicks in this design.
Remove four toothpicks so that only four
congruent triangles remain.
Card 26 Set C
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Debra bought five pieces of gold chain with words, or numbers.
four links in each piece to make a necklace
If a jeweler charges $3 to open a link and
$4 to close a link what should she ask the
jeweler to do in order to pay the smallest
amount to make her necklace?
Card 27 Set C
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30 = 1, 31 = 3, 32 = 9, 33 = 27, 34 = 81, ... words, or numbers.
Card 28 Set C
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George bought a Christmas tree to put in his words, or numbers.
living room. He paid $50 for the tree. After he
took it home, he realized it was too tall and sold
it to his neighor for $60. His neighbor put
lights on the tree and then decided the tree was
too wide for the room. George looked at the
tree again and offered to buy the tree back for
$70. George cut two feet off the bottom of the
tree and when he stood it up, he was no longer
pleased with the tree. He sold it for $80 to
another neighbor. What was George’s financial
outcome from this venture?
Card 29 Set C
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A 3 x 3 x 5 cm rectangular prism is painted words, or numbers.
orange on all sides. Draw the figure.
Card 30 Set C
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Bob’s Bicycle Shop assembled some words, or numbers.
tricycles and go-carts. The total number of
tricycles and go-carts was 30 and Bob used
103 wheels in all. How many go-carts did
Bob make?
Card 31 Set C
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Working alone, Johnny can build a model words, or numbers.
airplane in two hours. It takes Sherry three
hours to complete a similar model. How long
would it take Johnny and Sherry working
together to complete an airplane?
Card 32 Set C
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Bill and Rosa have only nickels and dimes. words, or numbers.
Rosa has 75 cents and Bill has 90 cents. Each
has the same number of coins and Bill has the
same number of dimes as Rosa has nickels.
How many nickels does Rosa have?
Card 33 Set C
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While writing the date 6/15/90 words, or numbers.
(June 15, 1990), James noticed that the
month (6) times the day (15) equalled the
year (90).
Card 34 Set C
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Find a shortcut for computing the sum : words, or numbers.
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17 = ??
Explain your shortcut and how you could
use this same shortcut to find the sum of
all the odd numbers from 45 to 99.
Card 35 Set C
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What is missing in this pattern? words, or numbers.
2 4 6 10
, , ,…
5 10 15 25
Explain how you got your answer.
5 6 7 8 9
Card 36 Set C
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How many people must be gathered together words, or numbers.
to be certain that two people of the group
have birthdays that fall in the same month?
Why?
Card 37 Set C
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How old will you be, in days, on words, or numbers.
January 1, 2002?
Card 38 Set C
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Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Scott words, or numbers.
Williams, Brad Daugherty and Sam Perkins
all played basketball at UNC-Chapel Hill. If
they play in a one-on-one tournament, how
many games would have to be played for
every player to play the others once?
Card 39 Set C
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Draw a rectangle whose perimeter words, or numbers.
(in linear units) is greater than its area
(in square units). Label the rectangle.
Card 40 Set C
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Laura’s favorite clothes are five sweaters, words, or numbers.
four skirts, three jackets, two pairs of shoes
and one belt. How many ways can Laura
wear her favorite clothes without repeating
the exact outfit?
Card 41 Set C
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Emily's dad pays her for picking strawberries. words, or numbers.
Each hour she works he increases her pay.
The first hour she earns two cents, the second
hour four cents, the third hour eight cents,
and so on, doubling the amount each hour.
How much money will she earn if she works
six hours? How much money will she earn
after ten hours? How many hours will she
need to work to earn at least $5.00?
Card 42 Set C
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Rick, Maria, and Bob have less than 20 words, or numbers.
tickets for rides at the fair. Rick has more
tickets than Maria, and Maria has more than
Bob.
Card 43 Set C
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The average of 5 numbers is 28. What words, or numbers.
would the 6th number have to be to bring the
average up to 30?
Card 44 Set C
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On a math test, students score 10 points for words, or numbers.
every correct answer. One point is deducted
for each incorrect answer. If your score is 45,
what could your answers (right and wrong)
have been?
Card 45 Set C
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The Jones family took a 600 mile trip to the words, or numbers.
mountains last spring and averaged 50 miles
per hour on the trip. On the return trip they
averaged 55 miles per hour. What was the
average speed for the entire trip? What
information do you need to have to solve
other problems like this? Explain your
answers.
Card 46 Set C
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Find all the numbers that divide 100 with a words, or numbers.
remainder of 4. What is the largest two-digit
divisor that can divide 100 and still have a
remainder of 4?
Card 47 Set C
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Can anyone ever make the claim words, or numbers.
“I was X years old in the year X2 ?"
Explain.
Card 48 Set C
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One section of a book contains six pages. words, or numbers.
The sum of all the page numbers in the
section is 525. What are the page numbers?
Card 49 Set C
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A camping club took a ten-day camping words, or numbers.
trip in the mountains. Twelve people
signed up for the trip. The club members
purchased supplies for the 12 hikers with
the understanding that supplies would be
divided equally among the twelve on a
daily basis. On the morning the hike was
to begin, three additional people joined
the group but no new provisions were
purchased. How long will the supplies
last if all 15 hikers receive equal daily
supplies? Explain your reasoning.
Card 50 Set C
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words, or numbers.
Place the
numbers 0 - 5
in the boxes so
there are no
lines connecting
consecutive
numbers.
Card 51 Set C
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Joey’s little sister must take four steps for words, or numbers.
every three steps Joey takes. Suppose one
step of Joey’s covers one foot. How many
feet would his little sister cover when she
has taken 12 steps?
Card 52 Set C
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At The Pizza Emporium, pizzas are sold by words, or numbers.
the slice or by the entire pizza. They are
trying to decide how to price their 14"
pepperoni pizza. How would you complete
the chart? Justify your answer.
Card 53 Set C
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Which 3-digit numbers, whose digits are words, or numbers.
6, 7, and 8, are evenly divisible by 8?
Card 54 Set C
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The page numbers of a book are numbered words, or numbers.
consecutively 1 to 300. How many page
numbers meet these conditions:
Card 55 Set C
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The club house is a rectangle that is 25' by words, or numbers.
40' in size. The officers voted to put a 6-foot
sidewalk all around the building, leaving a
2-foot space for plants between the building
and the sidewalk.
Card 56 Set C
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Assume that the sides of triangles are words, or numbers.
limited to whole-number measures.
How many different triangles have a
perimeter of 12? What kinds of triangles
are they? Explain how you
determined this.
Card 57 Set C
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The boundary of a skating rink is formed by words, or numbers.
a 200-foot square and two semi-circles.
What is the area of the skating rink?
What is its perimeter?
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200 feet
Card 58 Set C
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The cube below was made by putting together 27 small
cubes. The large cube was then dropped into a bucket of words, or numbers.
blue paint. The cube was removed from the paint and
allowed to dry. After the paint dried, the large cube was
taken apart.
Card 59 Set C
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A. Using exactly 50 coins, words, or numbers.
how can you make
change for a dollar bill?
Card 60 Set C
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If the enrollment of a school is 400, will words, or numbers.
there always be at least two students in the
school whose birthdays fall on the same day
of the year? Why or why not?
Card 61 Set C
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Week # Letters Total
This Week Letters words, or numbers.
1 8 8
2 8 16
3 8 ?
4 8 ?
What would this table look like for the first
eight weeks?
Card 63 Set C
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words, or numbers.
Card 64 Set C