Monday+Morning+Math

=2009-2010=

MMM September 14
· ** Kindergarten: Mrs. Hilt would like to know the missing number in this pattern: 12, 13, 14,, 16 ** (15) · ** Grade 1: Mrs. Hilt gave 2 pieces of candy to each student in the group. The group had a total of 9 students in it. How many pieces of candy did Mrs. Hilt give away? ** (18 pieces of candy) · ** Grade 2: Mrs. Hilt saw 21 snakes, 11 aligators, 36 frogs, and 57 bears. How many reptiles did Mrs. Hilt see? ** (68 reptiles) · ** Grade 3: Mrs. Hilt measured the distance from her desk to the water fountain. It was 30 feet. How many feet will Mrs. Hilt walk on her trips TO the fountain if she goes to the water fountain four times today? ** (120 feet) · ** Grade 4: Mrs. Hilt would like you to draw four different types of four-sided polygons. Label each one correctly. ** Possible answers: rectangle, square, rhombus, trapezoid · ** Grade 5: Mrs. Hilt scored 62 points in a basketball game. She shot no foul shots, but she did score some 3-pointers. What is the largest number of 3-pointers she could have made? ** She could have made 20 3-pointers. · ** Grade 6: Mrs. Hilt needs you to find the range, mean, and median for this set of numbers: ** 17, 22, 31, 19, 21 Range = 14 Mean = 22 Median = 21 17, 19, 21, 22, 31

** MMM September 21 ** Answer: Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Fish 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48 51 54
 * Kindergarten: ** Mrs. Hilt has 2 dogs. How many paws does she see on her dogs? (8 paws)
 * Grade 1: ** Mrs. Hilt ate 5 apples every hour. How many apples had she eaten at the end of 3 hours? (15 apples)
 * Grade 2: ** Mrs. Hilt had 36 balloons. Half of the balloons popped. How many balloons did she have left? (18 balloons)
 * Grade 3: ** Mrs. Hilt saw 144 bees in the hive. The next day she saw 3 times that many. How many bees did she see on the second day? (432 bees)
 * Grade 4: ** Mrs. Hilt ate 1 ½ personal pizzas every school day except Thursday (she wanted to save room for ice cream!) How many total pizzas did she eat that week? (6 pizzas)
 * Grade 5: ** Mrs. Hilt runs 3½ miles every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. How many miles will she run in a month in which there are 4 Mondays, 4 Wednesdays, and 4 Fridays? (42 miles)
 * Grade 6: ** Mrs. Hilt caught 12 fish on August 1st. On August 2nd she caught 15 fish, and on August 3rd she caught 18 fish. If this pattern continues, how many total fish for the month will she have caught by the end of the day August 15th?

Total fish = 495 fish

MMM September 28
Kindergarten: Mrs. Hilt saw 9 birds on the limb of a tree. Four of the birds flew off. How many were left on the tree limb? (5 birds)

Grade 1: Mrs. Hilt read 2 books per day. How many books did she read in one week? (14 books)

Grade 2: If Mrs. Hilt reads 4 books every day, how many books will she read in the month of September? (120 books)

Grade 3: Mrs. Hilt wants to know three different ways she can make $0.59 using only quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. (AWV)

Grade 4: Mrs. Hilt gave $0.50 to each fourth grader. If there are 69 fourth graders, how much money did Mrs. Hilt give away? ($34.50)

Grade 5: Mrs. Hilt sold 120 pencils for $0.35 each. If half of the cost is profit, how much profit did she make on the pencils? (She made $21.00 profit)

Grade 6: Mrs. Hilt will buy a new pair of shoes in 11 days. How many minutes must she wait before she can buy her new pair of shoes? (15,840 minutes)


 * MMM October 5 - Delicious Pizza Week (Week 4)**


 * Kindergarten: Mrs. Hilt bought a pizza that had 6 slices. One slice had pepperoni and one slice had mushrooms. The rest were plain. How many plain slices were on her pizza? (4 plain slices)


 * Grade 1: Mrs. Hilt bought 2 pizzas. Each pizza had 8 slices. How many total slices of pizza did she have? (16 slices)


 * Grade 2: Mrs. Hilt bought 3 pizzas for $8 each. What was the total amount she paid for the three pizzas? ($24)


 * Grade 3: Mrs. Hilt bought 4 pizzas. Each pizza cost $7.77. What was the total amount she paid for the four pizzas? ($31.08)


 * Grade 4: Mrs. Hilt bought 4 pizzas with 8 slices each. She and her friends ate 21 slices of the pizza. How many slices were left? (11 slices)


 * Grade 5: Mrs. Hilt had 4 pizzas. Each pizza had 8 slices. If Mrs. Hilt ate 50% of the pizza slices, how many slices were left? (16 slices)


 * Grade 6: Mrs. Hilt had 4 pizzas with 8 slices each. If she sold the pizza for $1.50 per slice, how much money would she make in all? ($48.00)

**MMM October 12, 2009 - Week 5**
Kindergarten: Mrs. Hilt won 3 stuffed cats, 5 stuffed dogs, and 1 stuffed bird at the carnival. How many total stuffed animals did she win? (9 animals)

Grade 1: Mrs. Hilt spent 25 cents on one caramel apple and 15 cents on one ice cream cone. How much more did the apple cost? (10 cents more)

Grade 2: Mrs. Hilt bought carnival tickets. The tickets cost $1 for 4 tickets. If Mrs. Hilt bought 12 tickets, how much did she pay? ($3.00)

Grade 3: Mrs. Hilt saw a rollercoaster. Seven students rode the rollercoaster every 5 minutes. How many students rode the rollercoaster in 15 minutes? (21 students)

Grade 4: Mrs. Hilt bought 3 hotdogs, 2 servings of nachos, and 4 pizzas. Each of the items cost $1.50. How much did she pay for all the food? ($13.50)

Grade 5: Mrs. Hilt learned that $1,348 worth of tickets were sold at the carnival. If tickets cost 4 for $1, how many tickets were sold? (5,392 tickets)

Grade 6: Mrs. Hilt noticed two rides were 32 feet apart. How many yards is that? Write your answer as a mixed number. (10 2/3 yards) 2008-2009