How Many Cups of Water? Math Challenge

Your body is about 70 percent water.  A cup of water weighs about 1/2 a pound.  How many cups of water do you have in your body?

Football Field and Dollar Bills Math Challenge

An American dollar bill is 6 inches long.  An American football field is 360 feet.  How many dollar bills would you have to line up end to end to cross the entire field?

How many Soft Drinks Math Challenge

How many soft drinks are consumed per hour?

How many soft drinks per day?

How many soft drinks per week?  Write this number in scientific notation.

Software Use Math Challenge

Daily Infographic surveyed a group of design professionals and compiled the data above. Using this data, answer the following questions:



1. What percentage use Microsoft Word most often?



2. What percentage use Google Docs most often?




3. What fraction of design professionals use Evernote most often for note taking

Perimeter of a Horse Corral Math Challenge

A rancher built a corral for his horses with the dimensions listed above.  What was the perimeter?

Teens Don't Eat Enough Fruits and Vegetables!

According to a new study by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers, teens are not eating enough fruit and vegetables.


1. Read this article.

2. Convert all of the percentages into fractions and decimals - display in some easy to read format ( a chart or columns perhaps?)

Bonus:
1. How many students ate vegetables less than once per day?

Multiplication Arrays Math Challenge

Write two math sentences for the multiplication array above.  How many in all?

School Supply Fraction Math Challenge

Sports Fraction Math Challenge

Flower Math Challenge

A florist buys roses at $0.50 apiece and sells them for $1.00 apiece.  If there are no other expenses, how many roses must be sold in order to make a profit of $400?  How did you figure that out?

Cuckoo Bird Math Challenge

 

If a cuckoo clock cuckoos on the hour (the number of times for that hour) and on the half hour (once each half hour) how many cuckoos does it make each day?

Coin Challenge

How can 3 dimes and 9 pennies be placed in three rows with 23 cents in each row?

Pencil Math Challenge

An average pencil can write about 50,000 words.  How many words can 8 pencils write?  How many can 80 pencils write?

Fraction Math Challenge

Fun Math Challenge

If you continue the pattern that is shown on the chart below, under which letter would you find the number 100?  Explain how you solved the problem.

How Many Hundreds Math Challenge

If you had $1,000 in hundred dollar bills, how many bills would you have?

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Banana Math Challenge

The average American eats 26 pounds of bananas per year!  How many pounds of bananas would a family of 4 eat?

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Homeschool Math Challenge May 10

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Homeschool Math Challenge November 25

There are 4 turkeys left in the store's freezer. The prices on their tags read: $17.65, $18.53, $17.94, and $19.33. What is the average price of a turkey?

Send answers to kellys 3ps@sbcglobal.net

Good luck!

Kelly

Homeschool Math Challenge October 30

Parker bought seven bags of candy to give out to trick-or-treaters Halloween night. When it was all over, he had 14 pieces of candy left. If 84 trick-or-treaters each received a piece of candy from him, how many pieces of candy were in each bag?