Mathematics Questions for STEMazing NumbeRace (Grades 4-6)

Section 1: Number & Number Sense (20 Questions)

1. What is the greatest common factor (GCF) of 48 and 72?
o Answer: 24. Find all factors of each number, then identify the largest one they share.

2. Write 5/8 as a decimal.

o Answer: 0.625. Divide 5 by 8 to convert the fraction to a decimal.

3. What is the least common multiple (LCM) of 6 and 8?

o Answer: 24. List multiples of 6 and 8 and find the smallest one they share.

4. If 6 is subtracted from 3 times a number, the result is 18. What is the number?
o Answer: 8. Solve the equation 3x−6=183x - 6 = 18.

5. Which of these numbers is prime? (23, 27, 35)

o Answer: 23. A prime number has only two factors: 1 and itself.

6. Round 45.678 to the nearest whole number.

o Answer: 46. Look at the tenths place to round.

7. What is 75% of 200?

o Answer: 150. Multiply 200 by 0.75.

8. Write 0.07 as a fraction in simplest form.

o Answer: 7/100. Write as a fraction and simplify.

9. The sum of two numbers is 84, and one number is 36. What is the other number?
o Answer: 48. Subtract 36 from 84.

10.Arrange the numbers 0.8, 3/4, and 85% in ascending order.

 Answer: 3/4, 0.8, 85%. Convert all to decimals.
11.If you double a number and subtract 10, the result is 34. What is the number?
 Answer: 22. Solve 2x−10=342x - 10 = 34.
 12.What is the value of 535^3?
 Answer: 125. Multiply 5 by itself three times.
13.Simplify: 36/48.
 Answer: 3/4. Divide numerator and denominator by their GCF, 12.
14.What is the smallest 4-digit number divisible by 9?
 Answer: 1008. Find the smallest number greater than or equal to 1000 that is divisible by 9.
15.Write 1.25 as a mixed number.
 Answer: 1 1/4. Separate the whole number and fractional parts.
16.Find the sum: 7/10 + 3/5.
 Answer: 13/10 or 1 3/10. Convert to a common denominator and add.
17.What is the reciprocal of 3/4?
 Answer: 4/3. Flip the numerator and denominator.
18.Which is larger: 2/3 or 3/5?
 Answer: 2/3. Convert to common denominators to compare.
19.A number multiplied by 7 is 84. What is the number?
 Answer: 12. Divide 84 by 7.
20.What is the difference between 56 and the product of 6 and 8?
 Answer: 8. Compute 6×8=486 × 8 = 48 and subtract from 56.

Section 2: Measurement and Geometry (30 Questions)

1. Find the area of a rectangle with a length of 12 cm and a width of 8 cm.
o Answer: 96 cm². Multiply length by width.

2. What is the perimeter of a square with a side length of 7 m?

o Answer: 28 m. Multiply the side length by 4.

3. Convert 5.4 km to meters.

o Answer: 5400 m. Multiply by 1000.
 4. A triangle has sides measuring 6 cm, 8 cm, and 10 cm. Is it a right triangle?
o Answer: Yes. Check a2+b2=c2a^2 + b^2 = c^2: (6^2 + 8^2 = 10^2.

5. What is the volume of a cube with a side length of 4 cm?

o Answer: 64 cm³. Use the formula (s^3.

(Additional questions will involve creating scaled grids, solving for unknowns in shapes, identifying geometric transformations, and real-world
measurement challenges.)

Section 3: Data and Probability (30 Questions)

1. What is the mode of the data set: 4, 5, 5, 7, 8?
o Answer: 5. It appears most frequently.

2. If a coin is flipped twice, what is the probability of getting two heads?

o Answer: 1/4. Multiply probabilities: (1/2 × 1/2.

3. A survey shows 15 students prefer chocolate, 10 prefer vanilla, and 5 prefer strawberry. What fraction of students prefer
vanilla?
o Answer: 1/3. Divide 10 by 30 (total).
1. Number and Number Sense 8. Question: A parallelogram has a base of 10 cm and a height of 6
1. Question: Find the least common multiple of 12 and 18. cm. Find its area.

2. Question: What is the sum of all even numbers from 1 to 50? 9. Question: How many faces does a cube have?

3. Question: Write 0.75 as a fraction in simplest form. 10. Question: A cone has a height of 9 cm and a radius of 3 cm.
Calculate its volume using π≈3.14\pi \approx 3.14π≈3.14.
4. Question: Compare 78\frac{7}{8}87 and 0.8750.8750.875. Which
is larger? 3. Data and Probability
1. Question: A coin is flipped three times. What is the probability of
5. Question: What is the prime factorization of 84? getting exactly two heads?

6. Question: If 15x=6015x = 6015x=60, find xxx. 2. Question: What is the mode of the data set: 4, 5, 5, 6, 7?

7. Question: What is the square root of 144? 3. Question: Find the median of the data set: 8, 12, 15, 17, 20.

8. Question: If 20% of a number is 25, what is the number? 4. Question: A die is rolled once. What is the probability of rolling a
number greater than 4?
9. Question: Identify the digit in the tens place of 9876.
5. Question: A student scored 70, 85, 90, and 95 on four tests. Find
10. Question: Solve for yyy in 3y−4=113y - 4 = 113y−4=11. the mean score.

2. Measurement and Geometry 6. Question: If a bag contains 3 red, 4 blue, and 5 green marbles,
1. Question: Find the perimeter of a rectangle with dimensions 8 cm what is the probability of picking a blue marble?
by 5 cm.
7. Question: Interpret this data: The bar graph shows 20 students
2. Question: A triangle has sides 7 cm, 8 cm, and 9 cm. What is its prefer apples, 15 prefer oranges, and 10 prefer bananas. What
perimeter? percentage prefer oranges?

3. Question: What is the area of a circle with a radius of 7 cm? Use 8. Question: A spinner has 4 equal sections (red, blue, green, yellow).
π≈3.14\pi \approx 3.14π≈3.14. What is the probability of landing on green?

4. Question: A square has an area of 64 cm². What is the length of 9. Question: Find the range of this data set: 5, 10, 15, 20.
one side?
10. Question: If the probability of rain tomorrow is 70%, what is the
5. Question: If the volume of a rectangular prism is 120 cm³ and its probability it will not rain?
base area is 10 cm², find its height.
4. Mathematical Problem Solving
6. Question: Convert 5 kilometers to meters. 1. Question: Solve: 5x+3=185x + 3 = 185x+3=18.

7. Question: Identify the type of angle that measures 120°. 2. Question: A train travels 60 km in 2 hours. What is its average
speed?
 3. Question: If 8 workers can complete a task in 5 days, how many 7. Question: A relay race has 4 team members. If each runs 200
days will it take 4 workers to complete the same task? meters, what is the total distance?

4. Question: A shop sells 3 pencils for $1. How many pencils can you 8. Question: A group of 6 friends orders a pizza for $18. How much
buy with $5? does each friend pay?

5. Question: The cost of a meal is $45. If there’s a 10% discount, how 9. Question: Two teams are building a model. Team A uses 30 blocks,
much do you pay? and Team B uses 25. What is the total number of blocks used?

6. Question: A rectangle's area is 56 m², and its width is 7 m. What is 10. Question: A group fundraiser earns $500. If each of the 10
its length? members gets an equal share, how much does each get?

7. Question: How much will a 20% tip be on a bill of $75? 6. Critical Thinking and Strategic Planning
1. Question: If a puzzle takes 10 minutes to solve and there are 6
8. Question: A car uses 8 liters of fuel to travel 100 km. How much puzzles, how can you organize a team of 3 to complete all puzzles
fuel is needed for 250 km? in the shortest time?

9. Question: Simplify: 2x+3x−4+72x + 3x - 4 + 72x+3x−4+7. 2. Question: You have 2 liters of water and need 3 liters for a recipe.
How can you measure exactly 3 liters using a 5-liter and a 2-liter
10. Question: The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 3:4. If there are 28 container?
students, how many are boys?
3. Question: You are organizing a competition where 12 teams
5. Collaboration and Communication compete in pairs. How many matches will be held in the first round?
1. Question: In a group project, if one member completes 40% of the
task and another completes 35%, how much is left for the others? 4. Question: A path splits into 3 directions. If each direction has 2
sub-paths, how many possible routes exist?
2. Question: Team A and Team B are solving a puzzle. If Team A
solves 3 puzzles in 15 minutes, how many puzzles can Team B solve 5. Question: If a store sells apples in bags of 5, how many bags are
if they work twice as fast? needed for 23 apples?

3. Question: A team of 4 members splits $200 equally. How much 6. Question: A 20-question test requires 1 minute per question. How
does each member get? should you divide time for the hardest 5 questions?

4. Question: During a debate, one team provides 5 arguments, and 7. Question: Two runners are 60 meters apart. If Runner A runs at 5
the opposing team provides 3. How many total arguments were m/s and Runner B at 4 m/s, how long until they meet?
presented?
8. Question: A cake recipe calls for 3 eggs. If you only have 2 eggs,
5. Question: If a group presentation lasts 30 minutes and there are 5 how can you adjust the recipe?
members, how many minutes should each member speak?
9. Question: A family has $500 for groceries and spends $150 each
6. Question: A group plans to paint a wall. If one person takes 6 week. How many weeks until they run out of money?
hours, how long will it take 3 people working together at the same
rate? 10. Question: You have a mix of 5 red and 3 blue marbles. What is the
chance of drawing two red marbles in a row without replacement?
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