- The Chip Swap Game - Ethel Breuche
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 increase the number of chips, find the general formula.
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- The Christmas Gifts - Terry Trotter
Algebra, difficulty level 2. A grandfather doles out his annual Christmas gifts to his beloved grandchildren in a most unusual way - mathematical, of course.
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- Cicada Circus - Kristina Lasher and special thanks to John Cooley
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Use the table of information about periodical cicadas to figure out when
the next time is that there will be three years in a row without an
emergence.
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- Dad's Cookies - Diane Anderson's Teaching the Young Learner Class
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Figure out how many cookies Dad baked for the family before they ate them all!
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- The Farmer in the Dilemma - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help Farmer Mead spend exactly $100 buying exactly 100 sheep, cows and
horses.
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- Frog Farming - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Help Farmer Mead build a rectangular pen that holds the greatest
number of frogs.
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- Greta's Garden - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Find out how much money Greta made from each of her vegetables at the
Farmers's Market.
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- Jumping Rope - Leon Roland & class
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Just how long was the rope with which we started?
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- Lemonade Fun - Maria Fung and her students
Pre-algebra, difficulty level 2. How many cups of each size lemonade did Jose and Nick sell?
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- Let the Chips Fall . . . - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Use clues about sums to determine which digits are on the reverse sides of three
given chips.
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- The Mensa Toy Store - Terry Trotter
Algebra, difficulty level 2. The prices are strange in this store. Can you decipher them?
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- Nuts in a Bowl - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine how many nuts are in five bowls using the given clues.
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- Pumpkin Carving for Charity - Suzanne Alejandre
Pre-algebra, difficulty level 1. How much money did each of the six friends raise by carving pumpkins
to auction off at a
local charity event?
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- Sam and Teri Revisited - Terry Trotter
Algebra, difficulty level 3. A bank account deposit-withdrawal problem with a difference.
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- Sundaes - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many children had no topping on their ice cream?
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- Zelma's ZIP Code - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Find Zelma's Zip Code by ordering pairs of digits that are products of one-digit numbers.
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