Math

March 16th- March 27th

Concepts: 2N has been working on place value and the plan was to continue working on place value through
the month of March. Strategies have mostly been taught. Next week we were going to talk about open
number line and one other strategy and then it was going to be a full week of CGI.

The strategies we have covered are:

The strategy I was going to teach Friday and focus on early next week was Open Number Line. It is a pretty
straightforward strategy. Subtract, your base number is on the right and you are skip counting backwards
(10’s, 5’s, 1’s, 20’s, etc). Add, your base number is on the left and you are skip counting forwards (10’s, 5’s,
1’s, 20’s, etc). This strategy is great for missing addends or subtrahends. (85- __= 23 or 85+__= 123).

Possible Ideas to do at home:

 Pick a few story problems to do per day using a variety of strategies.
 Pick some rote 2 digit and 3 digit problems to solve using a variety of strategies.
 Play Automaticity War (use index cards, write 2 digit equations (addition or subtraction). Similar to
war, players get a pile and they play one card at a time. When they flip it over, they have to say the
sum/difference. The card with the greatest amount gets the cards… it is exactly like War, but it is an
equation, not just a single number).
 Play Race to Zero or Race to 100 (make a HTO chart on paper, roll dice to add or subtract).
 Create story problems by rolling a dice to come up with the numbers and creating a narrative.
 Story Problem Bank
Try and pick a variety so students are used to hearing the different types of problems.
Fraction
 4 children share 2 sandwiches so that everyone gets exactly the same amount. How much sandwich
can each child have?
 Three children want to share 4 sandwiches so that they each get the same amount.
 Four children want to share 7 brownies so that each person gets the same amount? How much
brownie will each child get?
 Three children want to share 2 small pizzas so that everyone gets exactly the same amount. How much
pizza will each child get?
 Chris and Jason shared 13 mini chocolate chip cookies so that they each got the same amount. How
many cookies did each person get?
 Four children want to share 10 brownies so that each child gets the same amount. How much should
each child get?
 4 children want to share 13 waffles so that each child gets the same amount. How many waffles will
each child get?
 Three children want to share 1 rectangular pan pizza so they each get the same amount. How much
should each child get? Six children want to share 1 rectangular pan pizza. How much should each child
get?
 Eight children want to share 12 sub sandwiches so that each child gets the same amount. How much
sandwich should each child get?

Comparison Problems
 Christian has 39 pennies. Simon has 96 more pennies than Christian. How many pennies does Simon
have?
 Destiny has 74 marbles. Naomi has 97 more marbles than Destiny. How many marbles does Naomi
have?
 Kim and Kelly had a sit-up contest. Kim did 81 sit-ups and Kelly did 37 sit-ups. How many more sit-ups
did Kim do than Kelly?
 Fatima and her little sister compared their sticker collections. Fatima had 146 stickers and her little
sister had 27 stickers. How many more stickers did Fatima have than her little sister?
 Raquel jumped a rope 77 times in a row. This was 49 times more than Faith jumped. How many times
did Faith jump in a row?
 Jemima has 94 beads in her hair. She has 29 more beads in her hair than Aleesha. How many beads
does Aleesha have in her hair?
 My mailbox is 88 steps from my front door. Cara's mailbox is 93 more steps from her front door than
mine. Cara's mailbox is how many steps from her front door?
 Each week Bridget earns $65 working at a music store and $168 working at a restaurant. Her brother
earns $75 per week delivering newspapers. How much more money does Bridget earn per week than
her brother?
 Ryan collected 198 cans for the recycling drive, and Cara collected 186 cans. Victor collected 92 cans,
and Gina collected 106 cans. How many more cans did Ryan and Cara collect than Victor and Gina?
 Leo has 6 bags of apples with 8 apples in each bag. Tori has 7 bags of apples with 7 apples in each bag.
Who has more apples, and how many more does that person have?

Subtraction/Addition
 Susana is collecting blankets for an orphanage. She has collected 87 blankets so far. How many more
blankets does she need to collect to have 238 altogether?
  The Mets started batting practice with some baseballs. They hit 89 homeruns over the fence. Now they
have 172 baseballs left. How many baseballs did they have at the start of batting practice?
 Last month, Gina collected 143 pennies. This month, she collected 369 pennies. How many pennies has
Gina collected?
 Tyler mows lawns to earn money. The first week this month he earned $125. The second week he
earned $220. The third week he earned $159. The fourth week he earned $87. How much did Tyler
earn this month?
 Libby had 187 pages in her notebook. For math class, she used 59 pages. For science class, she used 36
pages. How many pages does she have left in her notebook?
 Leo had 205 basketball cards. He sold 68 cards to his friend, and gave 33 cards to his sister. How many
basketball cards does he have left?
 Joshua has a bag of 10 Skittles. Each Skittle is either red or green. What could he have in his bag? What
are all the ways to answer this question?
 Collette has 11 books on her shelf. Each book is either fiction or nonfiction. What books could Collette
have on her shelf?
 Denzel hopped on one foot down the track. He switched feet and hopped 44 feet farther. He switched
feet again and hopped another 59 feet. Altogether he hopped 182 feet down the track. How many feet
did he hop at first?
 On the first of February, Snowbird Ski Resort had 265 inches of snow on the ground. Some of the snow
melted in February; 46 inches melted in March. At the end of March, there were 67 inches of snow on
the ground. How many inches of snow melted in February?
 The grocer paid $482 for a delivery or oranges, carrots, and milk. The payment included $111 for the
oranges, $96 for the carrots, and the rest for the milk. How much did the grocer pay for the milk?
 Philip had 162 marbles. He gave 25 red ones and 22 blue ones to his sister. How many marbles does
Philip have left?
 Lily earned $136 during January and $215 during February. Then she bought some clothes. Now she
has $273 left. How much money did Lily spend on the clothes?
 Tyler worked 4 hours washing windows and was paid $15 per hour. He spent some of the money he
earned on a movie and snacks. Now he has $17 left. How much money did he spend?
 Ricardo has 3 pet mice. He keeps them in 3 cages that are connected so the mice can go back and forth
between the cages. One cage is big, one is medium, and one is small. What are all the ways the 3 mice
can be in the 3 cages?

Multiplication/Division (Students should practice the representation of what division and multiplication look
like… ie. Repeated addition/subtraction).
 Mom bought 5 boxes of popsicles with 15 popsicles in each box. How many popsicles did Mom buy?
 Tickets for the school magic show cost $14 each. We have collected $102 from ticket sales. How many
tickets have been sold?
 Donuts are boxed in dozens (12 donuts in each box). The baker made 120 donuts, but burned 24 of
them and could not sell them. How many boxes of donuts are available to sell?
 Ari bought 8 cans of dog food. Each can contained 17 ounces of dog food. How many ounces of dog
food did Ari buy?
 Kindergarten drank 9 packs of juice boxes for a total of 108 juice boxes. How many juice boxes were in
each pack?
 The zookeeper has 6 cups of frog food. His frogs eat 1/2 cup of food per day. How many days will this
food feed the frogs?
  Each of the baseball teams in the city league has 23 players. If there are a total of 328 players in the
league, how many baseball teams are there?
 Each hair bow needs 1/4 yard of ribbon to make it. How many hair bows can I make with 1 yard of
ribbon?
 Each cherry pie needs one fourth of a cup of sugar. How many cherry pies can you make if you have
three fourths of a cup of sugar?
 If each student needs 1/3 of a stick of clay to do an art project, and there are 4 sticks of clay, how many
students can do the art project?

Additional Advanced Problems

 Francesca earns $3 an hour babysitting. How many hours will she need to babysit to have the $42 she
needs to buy her school uniform this year?
 The auditorium has 72 seats. There are six rows of seats with the same number of seats in each row.
How many seats are in each row?
 Federico received a truck load of Christmas trees to sell. The first week, he sold 259 trees. The next
week, he sold 317 trees. Now he has 108 trees left to sell. How many trees did Federico have at first?
 Zarai was going on a trip with her family that was 551 miles. They had driven for a few hours when
Zarai saw a sign that said there were 207 miles left. How many miles had they driven so far?
 Ms. Edwards bought eight dozen muffins for a school fun run. She also bought eight muffins for her
family to eat. How many muffins did she buy?
 Franklin's book has 176 pages. If he can read 16 pages each day, how many days will it take him to read
the book?
 There are 10 oranges to share among six children for snack. If they each get the same amount of
orange, how much will each child get? If they had 20 oranges to share, how much would each child
get?
 Three best friends collected aluminum cans for the recycling drive. Malik collected 163 cans, Samuel
collected 224 cans, and Jayden collected 696 cans. How many cans did they collect altogether?