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Elementary
- Across Wisconsin
- Jo Wenzler
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine how long it will take this athletic math teacher to bike across Wisconsin (requires a little map
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- A Barrel of Fun
- Lisa Lavelle
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. How much apple juice did the man
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- Bunches of Basil
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine the maximum number of basil plants I will have after I finish thinning the
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- Garden Fresh Fruit
- Shrawan Khanna's Ninth Grade Class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Help the poor farmer predict his revenue (if he can sell all his
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- Hot Dog Day!
- Jeffrey Mo
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine how many large hot dogs have been ordered for this special
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- How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Team 7 Red Math Students -- Highland Middle School
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Help the HMS students find out how many ways they can arrange their schoolyard
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- Irish Specials
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Calculate the final bill for our St. Patrick's Day dinner last
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- Jellybean Fractions
- Lisa Lavelle
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Elementary, difficulty level 2. Determine good and bad choices in playing the Jellybean Fractions
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- Jellybean Rectangles
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Have fun figuring out strategy in the Jellybean Rectangle
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- Lucky Lettuce Land
- Kainoa Trotter, et al.
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help Farmer Lucky fence his lettuce
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- Lunch Bunch Budgets
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine the number of children needed for the lunch bunch budget to
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- The Mad Hatter's Gone!
- Leanne Gater
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Explore a coordinate plane and help the Cheshire Cat find his favorite cheese.
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- McPrincipal's Night at McDee's
- Antonietta D.
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Just how much did the teachers from Mathematics Elementary School sell (and earn) in their charity
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- Mean Jellybeans
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Take a look at averages with Mr. Cal Q. Later and his
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- Peanut Butter and Jelly
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many sandwiches can we make before using up a package of bread and jars of jelly and peanut butter at the
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- Raisin Nut Cookies
- Marsha May
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Sarah needs to convert her cookie recipe for her
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- Sacagawea Cheerios
- Stephen Maurer
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine how many Sacagawea coins the government will give away during this Cheerios
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- Super Deal Salsa
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine how much money was saved by buying salsa in
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- Middle School
- Accuracy Please
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Considering precision, accuracy, and appropriateness in finding the volume of a
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- Buying Cola
- Leon Roland & class
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Where should Chuck shop to get the most cola? Is this the best
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- Counting Chicken Wings
- Annie Fetter, Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Figure out how many wings are in the Biggest Bucket O'
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- Fall Festival Frolic
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. How many different types of candy are needed to make at least 50 different treat
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- He Ate It All!
- Mr. Marthinsen's Geometry Class
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. The professor ate an entire pizza in 28 minutes. Figure out the size of the pizza.
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- Join Us for a Quarter-pound Burger
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Work with fractions and percents to help plan this
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- Luscious Lemonade
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. The label on the lemon concentrate says that I need to mix 2 cups of concentrate with 3 cups of water. How
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- Math Club Lollipop Profits
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. The Math Club plans to sell lollipops. Help them to calculate their profit.
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- Milk Madness
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 4. Help Georgina find out how much milk is left using the number pattern she describes.
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- Mr. Carmel's Party Plan
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Help Mr. Carmel's class earn an ice cream party by counting the number of possible sundaes.
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- Pi Day - Let's Eat Cake!
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. In honor of Pi Day we will be comparing the volumes of slices taken from round and rectangular cakes.
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- Pizza Pie
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Use the given information to decide how many slices of the small pizza would be equal to or greater than 3 slices
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- Pouring the Punch
- Neil Bress
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. The Refreshments Committee needs to pour exactly four liters of eggnog using only three-liter and five-liter
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- Sailing Around the World
- Leon Roland & class
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Determine the amounts of the supplies that Giuseppi Linguini will need to sail around the
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- Valley Springs Snow Cream
- Kelly Crisp
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Compare the volume of a sphere, cone, and cylinder using ice
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- Who Brought the Candy Corn?
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 3. Five children dressed in different costumes arrived for a Halloween party riding bicycles. Who drinks Root Beer?
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- Algebra
- A 2-for-1 Lunch
- Marsha Hurwitz
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two boys had lunch on a two-for-one coupon, plus taxes and tips. What was their percent of savings on the transaction?
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- The Custom of Customs
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two wine merchants enter Paris with their merchandise. They need to pay custom duties. Each pays with francs and with
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- The Great Doughnut Caper
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. After a number of doughnuts have been switched in their respective boxes, you are to discover the original state of
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- Gumballs Galore!
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two famous characters from literature go on a gumball shopping
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- Halloween Night
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. One hundred candy kisses were being distributed, one at a time, to five goblins at my door. The phone rang, and when I
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- Lettuce for Sale
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Using a linear equation, determine the number of heads of lettuce sold on
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- Milly Miffin's Muffins
- J. A. H. Hunter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Milly Miffin et al. are muffin makers extraordinaires, and they make muffins mathematically, too. The question is, how
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- Partners in Pizza
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Three friends share the cost of a pizza. How much does each
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- Peanuts and Cashews
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Find the proper mixture of nuts that have a certain price rate to be sold in the nut
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- Porky Pig's Popcorn Diet
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 4. Porky is put on a special diet plan so that he can enjoy his favorite snack:
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- The Price of Pollo
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Use a linear equation model to predict a future price of fried
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- Shanell's Holiday Treats
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. Given some data about purchasing fancy nuts for cooking, find the total cost of buying one pound of each
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- The Three Jelly Bean Jars
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Three brothers buy jelly beans. The jelly beans are in jars that are three different sizes. How many jelly beans does
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- Valentine Candy
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. A vendor who sells Valentine candy boxes wants to raise the price. For every twenty-five-cent increase he loses two
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- Geometry
- Making Pie Crust
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 3. How would you change the recipe for a 9-inch pie crust to make an 11-inch pie
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- More Pie, Anyone?
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. How big a pie pan would you need if you made twice as much dough as you would need for a 9-inch
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- Which Pizza?
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Which is a better deal - a 16" diameter pizza for $11 or a 10" diameter pizza for $7?
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- Discrete Math
- Cooking Dinner
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Using graphs and critical paths, find the amount of time it takes to make
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- The Doughnut Dilemma
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. How many ways can you choose three doughnuts from six different types of doughnuts?
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- Homework and Candy
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. Use the Hamilton method to apportion candy among three
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- Will It Be Pumpkin Pie?
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 4. Based on voting coalitions and power indices, who has more power in deciding what will be served for
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- Trigonometry/Calculus
- Another Problematic Pizza
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the area of a triangular piece of
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- Cutting the Cookie
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Where should you cut a circular cookie so its area is in a ratio of 1:2
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- Doughnut Dilemma
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Which doughnut shop makes a doughnut with a greater
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- My Hot Chocolate is Too Hot!
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Use Newton's Law of Cooling to determine how long it will take for your hot chocolate to
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- Pie Puzzler
- Paul Robinson
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Where should a pie wedge be cut to divide it into two pieces having the same
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- A Problematic Pizza
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the area of a specific region of a circle based on given information.
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- Time to Make the Doughnuts
- David Turner
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Find the radius of a doughnut with center at (0, 10) and a volume of 3158 cubic
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