1. Math Daily Questions

2. In your Answer Document, use pictures, numbers or words to explain which student correctly added the decimals.

3. Courtney starts with 12 birdhouses. She makes three new birdhouses each week. How many birdhouses will she have after 12 weeks?

4. The middle school team scored three field goals worth three points each and two touchdowns worth six points each, including extra points. Write a numerical expression to find the team's score. Evaluate the expression.

5. Four marching band members are walking in line. Carlos is behind Guillermo. Abe is ahead of Guillermo. Rick is behind Carlos. What is the order of the four band members from front to back?

6. Two out of every 3 seats were taken. Out of 33 seats, how many were taken?

7. Elissa bought a pen for $1.55, an eraser for $0.84, a ruler for $1.55, and some paper clips for $0.87. How much did she spend in all?

8. A case of 12 toy rockets is $51.96. One rocket cost $4.61. What is the savings if you buy a case instead of 12 individual rockets?

9. Tracy takes a flight across the country. The flight is 5 hours long and covers 2,500 miles. How many miles per hour did the plane average?

10. Aaron saved $60 to buy airplane models for his collection. The cost of each model with tax included is $7. How many models can he buy?

11. How confident are you about passing the Math OAT? Why? • Do you think you have improved your math skills from last year? Support your answer. • What has been your favorite activity/topic/lesson/project we have done in math so far this year? Why did you like it? • There is 1 ½ months of school left. What would you like to do/cover (math related) the last few weeks of the school year?

12. Explain the difference between area, volume, perimeter and surface area. How do you find each of them?

13. Draw an acute, obtuse, and right angle. Label them with degrees

14. Reuben recorded the heights of 7 boys and 7 girls in his class in the table shown.  Calculate the range, the median and the mode for the height of the boys and for the height of the girls. Use the range, median, or mode to compare the heights of the boys and girls and tell which group you think is taller. Explain how you made your choice.

15. The table shows the weekly hits on Ronan’s Web site for the month of November. Compute the total number of hits in November

16. Pop Quiz On a piece of loose leaf paper complete page 33 (1-18) as a pop quiz. You may not ask neighbors for help. Stick in and close book when you are finished. Don’t turn in.

17. A cone and a cylinder are shown. Give one way that they are alike and one way that they are different.

18. One month Tony’s puppy grew ½ of an inch. The next month his puppy grew ¾ of an inch. How many inches did Tony’s puppy grow in two months?

19. Ruth’s garden has 6 rows of strawberry plants. There are 20 strawberry plants in each row.   How many strawberry plants are in Ruth’s garden? What is another way she could have planted them? www.darke.k12.oh.us/~leesa_folkerth

20. A figure is shown on the grid. What is the area and perimeter of the figure?

21. On a piece of loose leaf paper write your problem of the week: • Write the digits 0-7 in the row of boxes using these rules: • No side by side numbers can be put in the boxes beside each other • Pattern alternating number high and low (high low high low high low)

22. September 17, 2008 A sycamore tree grew 30 feet in 20 years (after it was planted). An American elm grew 1.6 feet each year over the same 20 years (after it was planted). If both trees were 5 ft tall when they were planted, which tree was taller at the end of twenty years?

23. Randy made this shape with toothpicks. What is the perimeter of the shape? Explain how you found the perimeter

24. Ms. Benitez’s class recorded the temperature for several mornings at 9:00 a.m. The temperatures the class recorded are shown. 63º,   63º,   62º,   64º,   66º,   63º,   60º What is the mean, median, mode and range of the data the class collected?

25. Joe is putting a low fence around all four sides of a rectangular flower bed. The flower bed is 4 feet wide and 6 feet long.   Each section of fencing is 2 feet long. How many sections of fencing will Joe need?

26. Alan will be gathering data about the temperature. Describe the steps Alan should use to gather and present the information

27. Identify 10 fractions about the people below.

28. The diagram shows how far it is from Anna’s home to her school, from her school to the library, and from the library to her home. Each school day, Anna rides her bike from her home to her school. After school, she rides to the library and then home. On Saturday, Anna rides her bike from home to the library and back home. She does not ride her bike on Sunday. Anna’s mother says that her daughter rides about 30 miles every week between her home, the school and the library. In your Answer Document , use estimation to determine whether Anna’s mother has made a reasonable estimate. Show or explain your work. (4 points)

29. Mr. Flora has six shirts and four pairs of pants. His shirts are red, green, white orange, pink and yellow. His pants are navy, gray black and tan. list all the different shirt and pants combinations that Mr. Flora can wear. (2 points)

30. Some fractions are less than one. Some fractions are equal to one. Some fractions are greater than one. Write a fraction that is equal to one. Use words, pictures or numbers to show or explain why your fraction is equal to one.

31. Ethan rakes leaves to earn money. He uses the information in the table shown to find how long he takes to rake lawns of different sizes. In your Answer Document , write a rule that tells how the amount of time Ethan needs to rake a lawn is related to the number of square feet in the lawn. One of Ethan’s neighbors has a 150-square-foot lawn. Use the table or your rule to state how long it will take Ethan to rake this lawn. Show or explain your work. Use the table or your rule to state what size lawn Ethan can rake in 65 minutes. Show or explain your work. (4 points)

32. The restaurant manager has 4 ½ quarts of ice cream left in the freezer. If it takes ¾ of a quart to make an ice cream pie, how many pies can he make? Include fractional parts of a pie if there is any leftover ice cream. Show your work

33. Anthony’s family plants 15 trees each weekend.

34. For a Grade! In your red math notebook answer the following questions in complete sentences What is the worst possible first move anyone could make when playing the factor game? Why? What is the best first move for you to make when playing the factor game? Why? Is this also a good move for you if your opponent makes this move? Why? What move would benefit you the most for your opponent to pick first? Why? If you were playing on a game board that went up to 48 what would be the best first move for you to make? Why? When you are finished leave your notebook open to the page you wrote on and have your name at the top of the page.

35. Raymond has these notebooks and pens in his backpack. List all the possible combinations of one notebook and one pen that Raymond could take from his backpack.

36. Mike surveys his class to find each student’s favorite dessert and records his data as shown.   Using your frequency table construct a bar graph with labels.

37. Amber made the input-output table shown. Which rule explains how to get the output number from the input number?

38. Justin keeps his toys in a box like the one shown. In your Answer Document, explain the difference between the volume and the surface area of the box. (2 points)

39. A survey at Albion Elementary School asked fifth graders to select their favorite kind of pizza. 42 percent chose cheese, 0.23 chose sausage, and 7/20 chose pepperoni. How would you list the favorite kinds of pizza from least to greatest number of responses?

40. Mrs. Garner’s classroom had 25 desks. They were arranged in 5 rows that each contained 5 desks. Write the fraction of the desks that are in Row 1. Write this fraction as a percent. Show or explain your work. Another classroom has between 15 and 22 desks with the same number of desks in each row. Row 1 has 25% of the desks in this classroom. Draw an arrangement of the desks in this classroom. How many desks are in Row 1? (4 points)

41. Answer the following questions on an index card. Must be turned in before you leave 1. Write a fraction and a decimal that represents the number of students wearing hats. • 2. John saw 6 cats and 9 dogs in the veterinarian’s waiting room. • What is the ratio of cats to dogs?

42. A rectangle is shown. In your Answer Document , find the area and the perimeter of the rectangle. Show your work. Label the area and the perimeter with the appropriate units. (2 points)

43. Make a line plot showing the number of letters in your classmates first names. Use your flip book if you forget what a line plot looks like.

44. Brainstorm with your table some questions you would like to collect data about from your classmates. You will share these aloud with the class.

45. Graphs • You will create two different graphs of the following: • Bar Graph - Line Plot • Double Bar Graph - Line Graph • Collect your data first before making the graph • Make sure you have all the necessary titles and it looks neat. • Use Markers (not pencil)

46. Brian can run 5 km in 18.4 minutes. If he keeps on running at the same speed, how far can he run in 23 minutes?

47. The table shows the number of cans of paint Joe used to paint benches. A parallelogram is shown on the grid. • Write an expression that represents the area of this parallelogram.

48. Jim created a table of the different types of music in his CD collection. He started to create the circle graph shown to represent these data. What type of music does the shaded section represent?

49. The height of a maple tree is recorded for each of 5 years in the table shown. Chris displays the data in the circle graph shown. Explain why Chris’ circle graph is not an appropriate way to display the data. Create an appropriate graph to display the data shown in the table. Be sure to give your graph a title, labels and a scale (if necessary). Explain why your graph is a better way to display the data.  (4 points)

50. On a piece of loose leaf paper list all the possible combinations for rolling two dice.