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Buy the Numbers
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many apartments can Tabitha number with the digits she purchased?
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Catching Up!
- Kristina Lasher
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Marika is catching up to her father's age. How can that be?
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Clock Work
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How did Maria and Sammy arrange their pencils on the clock face?
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Cool Cubes
- Heather Cool and Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Can Jackie really mark her cubes so that each sum from 1 to 36 is possible?
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Crossing the River with Ogres
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Find out how many times the boat must cross the river to get all the
gnomes and ogres to
the other side.
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Eating Grapes
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many grapes did Angela eat on Monday?
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Emmy's Action Figures
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. In how many different ways can Emmy arrange her Famous Mathematician
action figures?
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Fish in a Barrel
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Find out how many fish Jake, Herman and Luke each took home from their
fishing trip.
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Four Dates
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Anthony explores number patterns on a calendar.
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Growing Worms
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Find a pattern to predict the growth of worms made of triangles.
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I Like to Palindrive!
- Kristina Lasher
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many palindromic numbers will appear on Kristina's odometer in October, 2003?
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Imogene the Imp *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many people have to get on the Ferris Wheel before Imogene is at
the front of the
line?
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Just the Facts *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. It's not a good idea to guess in this game! Find out how many
multiplication facts Zach got
right.
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Lighting the Menorah
- Lillian Ray and Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 1. How many candles are used during Chanukah?
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Mini-Movie Theater Seating
- Chrissy Stewart (adapted)
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. How many rowdy kids can sit in the Mini-Movie Theater?
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Missing Pages
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Drew's math book is missing a page. What are the page numbers on the missing page?
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Monmouth Mountain Bikes
- Kristina Lasher
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 1. How many mountain bikes will have the highest level of safety testing?
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More Mowing Madness
- George Miller and Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Where should Matt and Georgette change places to evenly split their "Matt-mowing" work?
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Mr. Lincoln's Line *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Find out who's wearing glasses and carrying lunch boxes in Mr.
Lincoln's lunch line.
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Mystery Numbers
- CanSchoolNet - revised
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Fill in the missing numbers on an ancient scroll.
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Olympic Rings Repair
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help answer Jellybean's question about the Olympic rings.
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Order in the Court *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How many handshakes will take place when the Supreme Court meets?
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Pirate Treasure *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many trips will it take to get the pirates and their treasure back
to the ship?
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Pondering Palindromes
- Mary DeYoung & class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 1. Explore 4-digit palindromes and find something else they have in common.
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Set a Date
- Lisa Lavelle (with help from Judy Ann Brown)
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Explore an interesting detail about a given date, and find six more dates with the same quality.
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Shop 'Til You Drop *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Find out how much Jason spent on his first back-to-school shopping trip.
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Stained Glass Window
- Jackson First Year Algebra Class
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Elementary, difficulty level 5. Find the size of a stained glass window for my front door.
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Teresa's Tiles
- Kristina Lasher
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many square tiles does Teresa need to cover her bathroom floor?
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The Teddy Bears' Banquet *
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many bears can be seated at the banquet?
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Trapezoid Teatime
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Find out how many guests can sit at a row of trapezoid tables at the school volunteers' tea.
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Tricky Triangles
- Lisa Lavelle
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. Arrange six toothpicks to create special triangles.
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Video Trading
- Joyce Hoellein & Class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine the number of trades necessary for each of the 4-H members to see each of the video tapes.
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You Think Your Teacher is Tough!*
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Use Mr. Garcia's scoring system to find out how many problems Tyler
got correct on his test.
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Zoo Train
- Claire Mead
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many passengers boarded the zoo train?
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