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Elementary
- Anderson's Pumpkin Patch
- Teaching the Young Learner Group and Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How many students are there in Ms. Juncos's fourth grade
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- The Big Balloon Blowup
- Leon Roland & class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help Ulrike and Lars determine the number of balloons in each
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- Birthday Beach Bash
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help determine how many balloons were needed for party favors at the end of this
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- Birthday Pictures
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Join Ms. Juncos's fourth-grade team in a comparison of seasons of
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- Holiday Shopping and Surfing
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Help Charlene calculate the change she'll have left for holiday card supplies after she completes her online
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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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- Ms. Newton's Secret
- Jeanne Fitzgerald
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Can you discover the secret of Ms. Newton's
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- Presidential Timepieces
- Mary DeYoung & class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Develop a sense of time by exploring presidential
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- Seasonal Probability
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Calculate the probability that your birthday falls in a particular season of the
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- Special Stars
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Calculate the number of pipe cleaners Leah used to create a Star of David
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- The Twelve Percents of Christmas
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Calculate the percentages of the total gifts received on each of the twelve days of
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- The Twelve What of Christmas??
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Have fun with mathematics definitions in this play on a famous holiday
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- Middle School
- Cats, Dogs, and Kids Everywhere You Look
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 2. A Logic problem: Patty's dog and Oscar's cat are both namesakes of the owner of the cat named Oscar...Who owns the
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- Happy New Year!
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 4. A puzzle for the new year: how is the grid designed?
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- Happy Thanksgiving
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. A logic puzzle to solve the age-old question, "Who will wash the dishes?"
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- A Holiday Gift for Grandmother Brown
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Determine the cost of the dishwasher and the contribution from each of five children.
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- The Math Club Holiday Party
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 2. The Math Club is having a holiday party. If the presents are opened in 5 minute intervals starting at 1:00 p.m. the
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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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- Pi Day Treats
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Help Mrs. Granville and Mrs. Germain plan a Pi Day
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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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- Rampaging Reindeer
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. How many different ways can Santa's reindeer be
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- Santa's Little Helpers
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Help Santa to solve the puzzle created by the clever elves.
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- Shine On Harvest Moon
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Find the area of the largest circle that can be cut from a nine-inch by twelve-inch sheet of paper.
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- Trick-or-Treat Route
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 4. Which of the many possible routes should the Anderson children take on their Halloween trek?
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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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- Wilda's Swamp Water
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Measure 8 quibits of swamp water using only 6-quibit and 10-quibit
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- Algebra
- Approval Method of Voting
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. In the country of Algpoweria, eligible voters can cast their votes for two candidates. Based on the clues given, find
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- The Chip Swap Game
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 4. The object of this game is to swap the positions of the different colored chips. Count the number of moves and, as you
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- The Christmas Gifts
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. A grandfather doles out his annual Christmas gifts to his beloved grandchildren in a most unusual way - mathematical, of
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- Grandpa Jones' Age
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Little George asks how old his grandpa is, and needs your help to find out the
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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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- Home-Made Valentine Card
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Reuben expresses his affection for his girlfriend by making his own Valentine's Day card, described
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- Mr. Green's Birthday
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Mr. Green has a birthday but will not tell his age directly. Can you figure out his age based on the
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- My Bag of Marbles
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Find the probability of drawing a blue marble after additional marbles have been placed in a
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- The Straggler Shakes Hands
- Melissa Kennedy, Susan Rose, Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. There were one hundred forty-one handshakes in all. How many people did the straggler know? This puzzle involves a
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- To Grandmother's House We Go
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 4. Red Riding Hood goes to visit Grandmother for the holidays at the same time that Grandmother heads out to visit Red.
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- Trick-or-Treat Box
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Harvey and his classmates make trick-or-treat boxes in math class and use a special formula to find the
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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
- Discrete Math
- Delivering Toys for the Holidays
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 4. Using two different algorithms, find the distance traveled in creating a Hamilton
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- The Fourth of July Parade
- Ethel Breuche
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. After the parade, the people on the float I was on shook hands with each other. The Mayor came over and shook
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- Happy Birthday to You, & You, & You...
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. What is the probability that in a room of 30 people, at least two people will share the same
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- Vinnie Valentine's Mix-Up
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. What is the probability of getting exactly 10 out of 20 valentines to the correct
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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
- Be My Valentine
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Find the areas of two heart-shaped
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- An Eggstra Special Problem
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the area of a cross-section of an egg given some dimensions of the
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- Five Golden Rings
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 5. Based on the given information, find the volume of five golden
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- A Holiday Card
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the ratio of the red area to the green area as the number of squares approaches
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- Kite Construction
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Given some information about the dimensions of a kite, find its
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- Squares Inside Squares
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the sum of the perimeters of three nesting squares. Imagine that the process of nesting squares continues
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