In your Math Journal, please answer the following questions. Please use complete sentences and explain your reasoning.
10/28/13
Define RATE. Give 3 examples of rate. What is a UNIT RATE and how would you calculate it?
10/30/13
Explain the difference between AREA and PERIMETER. (Not just the way you calculate each but what each actually is).
11/1/13
How do you convert a percent to a fraction? A decimal to a fraction?
Convert the following to a fraction:
A: 65% B. 19.2 C. 0.24 D. 98.5% E. 32% F. 0.6
11/5/13
The playground is filled with bicycles and wagons. If there are 24 vehicles and 80 wheels altogether, how many bicycles are on the playground? How many wagons?
11/7/13
If a piglet weighs the same as two ducks, three piglets weigh the same as a young goat, and a young goat weighs the same as two terriers, then how many of each animal weighs the same as a terrier?
11/11/13
Using five 2s and any symbol or operation, create an expression that is equal to 5. Come up with at least 2 different possibilities.
11/13/13
Tennis is played on a rectangular surface that usually has two different courts drawn on it. Two players compete on a singles court and four players (two per team) compete on a doubles court. The singles court is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide. The doubles court has the same length, but is 9 feet wider. What is the perimeter of a singles court? what's the area? How wide is a doubles court? what is the perimeter of the doubles court? whats the area of the doubles court?
12/2/13
Josephina is making sack lunches. She has two kinds of sandwiches, three kinds of fruit, and two kinds of juice. If each sack lunch contains one kind of sandwich, one kind of fruit, and one kind of juice, how many different sack lunch combinations can Josephina make?
10/28/13
Define RATE. Give 3 examples of rate. What is a UNIT RATE and how would you calculate it?
10/30/13
Explain the difference between AREA and PERIMETER. (Not just the way you calculate each but what each actually is).
11/1/13
How do you convert a percent to a fraction? A decimal to a fraction?
Convert the following to a fraction:
A: 65% B. 19.2 C. 0.24 D. 98.5% E. 32% F. 0.6
11/5/13
The playground is filled with bicycles and wagons. If there are 24 vehicles and 80 wheels altogether, how many bicycles are on the playground? How many wagons?
11/7/13
If a piglet weighs the same as two ducks, three piglets weigh the same as a young goat, and a young goat weighs the same as two terriers, then how many of each animal weighs the same as a terrier?
11/11/13
Using five 2s and any symbol or operation, create an expression that is equal to 5. Come up with at least 2 different possibilities.
11/13/13
Tennis is played on a rectangular surface that usually has two different courts drawn on it. Two players compete on a singles court and four players (two per team) compete on a doubles court. The singles court is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide. The doubles court has the same length, but is 9 feet wider. What is the perimeter of a singles court? what's the area? How wide is a doubles court? what is the perimeter of the doubles court? whats the area of the doubles court?
12/2/13
Josephina is making sack lunches. She has two kinds of sandwiches, three kinds of fruit, and two kinds of juice. If each sack lunch contains one kind of sandwich, one kind of fruit, and one kind of juice, how many different sack lunch combinations can Josephina make?