- Anjelica's Very Odd Magic Sweater - Cynthia Lanius, Suzanne Alejandre
Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Find the shortcut Angelica's mother might have used to calculate the
number of dimes.
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- Baseball Cards - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How many cards does each of the three boys have in his baseball card collection?
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- Birthday Line Up - Claire Mead, Stephen Weimar
Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. How old will Seth be when his mother is five times Seth's age?
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- 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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- Counting Cats and Dogs - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How many students in Lin's school have both a dog and a cat?
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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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- Emmy's Action Figures - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. In how many different ways can Emmy arrange her Famous Mathematician
action figures?
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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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- Lotsa Popcorn! - Annie Fetter
Geometry, difficulty level 1. Can the World's Largest Popcorn Ball really be 50,000 times bigger than a
normal one? Wow!
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- Math Club Field Trip - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many people returned from the Math Club field trip in Miss Noether's van?
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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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- Shopping at the School Store - Claire Mead
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How much does a pencil cost at the school store? How much does an eraser cost?
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- Sketchley Names That Negative - Suzanne Alejandre, Steve Risberg
Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Use five given negative numbers to form an expression that equals the
target number.
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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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