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4 2
Investigations
Math Trivia 1 3

Your body contains 8 pints of blood. About There are 300 mailboxes in the post office. They are
400 gallons of blood flow through your kidneys numbered consecutively from 1 to 300. Every fifth
each day. This blood travels about 61,320 mailbox must be opened with a key instead of using
miles in a year. The average person's heart beats a combination. Every sixth box has a window and
103,680 times a day. every eighth box is oversized. Which dormitory
mailboxes meet all three criteria - oversized, with a
window, and have a key lock? Explain how you
determined your answer.

(5.01)
Using Numbers in
Powerful Ways
With a partner and a set of two number
(1.03)
cubes, play a sum game. One person will
need to be ODD sums and the other
person needs to be EVEN sums.
Roll the cubes. Every time an even sum is Fraction Fun
rolled (example 2 and 4, the sum is 6) the
Sam Squirrel gathered half the nuts for
even person receives a point. With each winter in July, one fourth in August, one-eighth in
odd sum the odd person receives a point. September. In October he gathered the last 25 nuts.
The first person to reach 10 points wins the How many did he gather in all?
game. Play several times. Is this a fair
(1.02, 5.02)
game? What if you multiplied the numbers
on the cubes? Would you want to be even
or odd? Explain why.
+ 2 +
3 - = 1
4 For Further Study
About how many pints of blood flow
through your kidneys each week? By your next
birthday, about how many miles will your blood
have traveled? About how many yards would that
ODD EVEN be? About how many times has your heart beat in
the last year?

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 No Remainder Maze

9 16 25 57 38

70 15 28 54 18 32

21 10 81 22 27

78 16 96 50 20 42

51 14 26 10 21

32 45 72 16 56 33

35 38 27 14 9

Rules:
Rules: Players(two) start
Players start on at opposite
opposite ends ofends of the gameboard
the gameboard and moveand move
their markertheir markerscolor
(different according
for eachto
player) according to the roll of a die. On the first roll, the player may move to any
the roll of a number cube. On the first roll a player may move to any space in the first row.shaded space in the first
row that is evenly divisible by the number on the die. For all other turns, a player may move if he or she can
Subsequent moves
divide the number on to
thethe next no
die with row are possible
remainder only
into the nextifconnected
the number
circle.rolled will evenly divide the
number moved to. If no move is possible play goes to the next player.
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 Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 12,864 has how many hundreds?

2. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

He died fifty years later. In what year did he die?

3. How many minutes are in 2 hours 10 minutes?

4. Sara bought a pound of hamburger for $2.39 and a bag of potatoes

for $1.79. How much did she spend?

5. 18,116 - 304.6 = C C = ?

6. 24.6 - B = 18.2 B = ?

7. (1 x 1000) + (1 x 1)

8. Mr. Judd made 8 trips to New York City this year. It is a 1,016 mile
round trip flight. How many miles did he fly?

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
4
Solve this!
How far could you walk if you walked a million paces? Would it be
around the school a few times? Or could you walk to another town?
to another state? Which ones?

Find the average fifth grader’s pace and you are on your way. Have
each group of students work to find a strategy to answer these
questions.

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To the Teacher WEEK

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FRACTION FUN: Teachers may wish to use this problem to illustrate a
geometric solution. A rectangle can represent the nuts needed for the winter.

Half can be labeled July, one-quarter for August and half of that quarter (one-
eighth) labeled September. September
August
July

Now the remaining section labeled 25 allows the student to work backward to
arrive at the total: 200!
25

Directions to Students: Number your paper from

Mental Math 1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 73 - 23 ÷ 10 x 7
1. 128
2. 1/4 + 2/4 + 5
2. 1826
3. Write in mixed number and decimal form: 8/3
3. 130 minutes.
4. Is 4/7 closer to 1/2 or 1?
4. $ 4.18
5. Smallest multiple of 8 and 12
5. C = 17,811.4
6. Name of a 150o angle
6. B = 6.4
7. Millimeters in 2 meters
7. 1,001
8. Feet in 3 1/3 yards
8. 8,128 miles
9. 9 quarters, 2 nickels
10. 3 weeks after the 5th of the month

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Week Week
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4 2

Math Trivia
1 3
Investigations
Highest point on land is Mount Everest (29,028’ Here are some more alphanumerics?
above sea level); lowest point is the Dead Sea (water
level is 1,302’ below sea level). Highest navigable Each letter stands for a
lake is Lake Titicaca in Peru elevation (12,506’ different number. There are
Deepest ocean is Pacific (average depth 14,000 feet); four possible solutions.
largest continent is Asia (17,300,000 square miles). Make up a puzzle of your
Smallest continent is Australia (2,966,000 square own. One group of 5th
miles). S AVE graders made up the
+ MORE following. . .
MON EY
D U M B
Using Numbers in Can you figure out how to make
+ D U M B
Powerful Ways two wrongs equal a right?
S M A R T

Replace each symbol with the same digit WRONG

to solve these division problems. +WRONG
R I GHT
97
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6)A83
AB 3C3
B3 C3)7DD0 Fraction Fun
B2 69 One fourth of a betty equals three-fifths
1 5D of a getty. A half of a jetty is equal to two-thirds of a
D6 betty. List the betty, getty and jetty in order from
80 least to greatest.
69
A=? 11 ( 1.01c)

B=?
C=? + 2 +
3 - = 1
D=? 4 For Further Study
A box has 2 white marbles and 6 black
marbles. To be sure of getting a black marble, how
many marbles (without looking) will you have to
take out?
( 1.03) ( 1.03)

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 Geometry
I HAVE WHO HAS
Acute Angle an angle whose measure is greater than 0o and less than 90o
4 the number of angles in a rectangle
hemisphere half a sphere
60o the measure of any angle of an equilateral triangle

vertex the point that two or more rays, sides or edges have in common


360 the number of degrees in a circle
trapezoid a four-sided polygon with exactly one pair of parallel lines
90o the measure of a right angle
square a four-sided polygon that has four right angles and four sides
that are the same length

10 the number of sides a decagon has

ray part of a straight line with an end point
right triangle a triangle that has one right angle
protractor a tool used to measure angles
perpendicular lines 
two lines that intersect at right angles to each other

perimeter the sum of the lengths of the sides of a polygon
angle two rays having a common end point
circumference the distance around a circle
line segment two points on a line and all the points between them
obtuse angle an angle owhose degree measure is greater than 90o and less
than 180
octagon an eight-sided polygon
parallel lines two lines which lie in the same plane and do not intersect
plane a flat surface
equilateral triangle a triangle with 3 lines of symmetry
parallelogram a quadrilateral with its opposite sides parallel
isosceles triangle a triangle with one line of symmetry
pentagon a five sided polygon
congruent angles two angles having the same measure
degrees the unit for measuring angles
scalene triangle a triangle with no lines of symmetry
rectangle a parallelogram with 4 right angles Developed by Barbara Baker,
Hazelwood Elementary School
geometry the study of space and shapes

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 Keeping Skills Sharp
1. If it is now 12:17 p.m. What time was it 45 minutes ago?

2. What number is even, a divisor of 28, a multiple of 7, greater than 7

but less than 15?

3. Which has the greater difference: 3842 4003

-1065 -2197

4. Order from least to greatest: 8.99 89.3 8.39 89.9

5. What is 21.6 less than 30.05?

6. 1278 ÷ 60

7. 89,241 x 10 = n n=?

8. Amanda made punch for a party. She used one-fourth cup of

cranberry juice, five and three-fourths cups of orange juice, two and
a half cups of apple juice, and nine-fourths cups of water.
How many cups of punch did she have?

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
4
Solve this!
Kameron needs to read a book with 270 pages, If one-sixth of the pages are full of
pictures, how many pages should he read each day if he has to finish in nine days?

(1.03, 5.02)

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USING NUMBERS IN POWERFUL WAYS:
A = 5; B = 4; C = 2; D = 4

As an extra challenge,have students try this puzzle.

R6
7W)63RR
592
W6 R
WWW
2W

R = 8; W = 4

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

1/4 + 1/4 = 2/4 1/2
1/4 x 1/4 = 1/16

Directions to Students: Number your paper from

Mental Math 1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 52 + 5 ÷ 5 - 5 out. Each question will be repeated only once.

2. 7 + 3/8 + 5/8 1. 11:32 a.m.

3. Write in fraction form 61.92 2. 14
4. Round to nearest whole number: 8 5/9 3. 3842 - 1065
5. Definition of prime number 4. 8.39, 8.99, 89.3, 89.9
6. Sum of the interior angles in a square 5. 8.45
7. Kilometers in 1,500 meters 6. 21 r 18 or 21 18/60 or 21 3/10
8. Yards in one mile 7. 892,410
9. Months in 5 1/2 years 8. 10 3/4 cups
10. Which is longer, one mile or one kilometer?

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Week Week
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Investigations
4 2

Math Trivia 1 3

Interstate highways are numbered with blue signs Using the "Spots Before Your Eyes" sheet, figure
with red tops. North-South highways have odd out the number of dots without counting.
numbers with 1 or 2 digits, usually including a 5. Describe the process you used in your math
The lowest numbers are on the West Coast and journal and compare your answer with others.
increase as they move East. East-west highways
have even numbers with 1- or 2- digits. The
lowest numbers are in the South and increase as
they go North. Interstate highways with 3-digit
numbers are connectors or offshoots of main
routes..

Try to find several different strategies to use.

Which do you think is the best strategy?

Using Numbers in (1.03, 5.01)

Powerful Ways
.
Jack spent $8.00 on two rolls of films.
One roll cost $1.00 more than the other. Fraction Fun
How much did each roll of film cost? Take half of “this” and add one more, then
triple that and add on four. The result
you’ll get by adding “this” to 23.
What is “this”?
(1.03, 5.02)

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
4
For Further Study
Name three U. S. highways that run from coast to
coast. Name seven highways that run from border to
border.

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Some GAMES for the summer.

The dark counters need to 1 2 3

exchange places with the light
ones. They can move one space
horizontally, vertically, or 4 5 6
diagonally. Only one counter
can be in a space. What is the
fewest number of moves?
Challenge: Do not go outside
the boxes.

Design a gameboard that has each player move 12 spaces from the start to the
winning point. Add these directions to your board:
1. Players roll 2 number cubes simultaneously and make a fraction with the
numbers rolled. (Smaller number is numerator.)
2. Determine whose fraction is larger by getting a common denominator or
creating a model.
3. Player with larger fraction moves a space. In case of ties, both players
move 1 space.
4. Winner is the first to reach the end.

In this game black pieces change places with white

ones.

Rules:
•Pieces of the same color cannot jump each other.

•A piece moves one space or jumps one marker at

a time.

What is the fewest number of moves

required to change places with all six pieces?

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Directions: Find the total number of dots without counting.
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1. Find the area in 3 feet
square feet.
48 inches
2. Order these from least to greatest: 4.26 24.6 0.06 2.64

3. Brenda likes lasagna better then pizza. She likes Chinese food
better than lasagna. Of these foods, which is her favorite?

4. Which is a better buy? 3 pounds for $7.83 or 4 pounds for $9.76?

5. How may 30’s are in 600?

6. 500.4 less 29.85

7. Which is more? 0.607 or 0.67

8. May and Lori shared a babysitting job. May sat from 6:30 p.m. to
8:15 p.m. and Lori from 8:15 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Who sat longer
and how much longer?

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
4
Solve this!
Suppose your baby sister is born at 12
noon and you call two friends. In 10
minutes, they each call 2 friends to tell
the news. In 10 minutes, these friends
call 2 others each. This continues all
afternoon. How many people will know
by 4:00 p.m.?

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For Further Study :
Three highways run from coast to coast: I-10, I-80, I-90
Seven highways run from border to border: I-5, I-15, I-35, I-55, I-65, I-75, and I-95
Coast to coast would be west to east and border to border would be north to south

Using Numbers in Powerful Ways:

$3.50 and $4.50

12:00 -4:00 is 4 hours. There are 24 segments of 10 minutes in 4 hours. If the

students begin a chart, they should determine the pattern.

Example # of people to tell # of people told 2 21 = 2

1 2 22 = 4
2 4 2 2
23 = 8
4 8 24 = 16
2 2 2 2
8 16
16 32 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
etc.

Solve This: 16,777,216 people = 224

Fraction Fun: “this’ is 32! Happy Summer!!

Directions to Students: Number your paper from

Mental Math 1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 9 x 9 + 9 ÷ 9 - 9 + 1/9 1. 12 feet2
2. 1002 - 5 + 6 ÷ 9 2. 0.06, 2.64, 4.26, 24.6
3. Write in fraction and word form 28.003 3. Chinese
4. Estimate sum: 3.7 + 5.2 + 8.29 4. 4 for $ 9.76
5. Smallest multiple of 2, 6, and 9 5. 20
6. Number of lines of symmetry in a scalene triangle 6. 470.55
7. Centimeters in one kilometer 7. 0.67
8. Feet in one mile 8. Lori by 30 minutes
9. Days in 10 years
10. Which is longer, a mile or a kilometer?
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 Correlation of Week-by-Weeks with Grade 5 Objectives

Number and Measurement Geometry DataAnalysis Algebra

Operations & Probability

1st Quarter 1.01, 1.03 4.01

2nd Quarter 1.02, 1.03 2.02 3.01, 3.02, 3.04 5.01

3rd Quarter 1.02, 1.03 2.01 3.03 4.02, 4.03 5.02, 5.03

4th Quarter 1.03 3.04 4.03 5.01

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