Dollar Words

We worked on finding dollar words in class. These are words that add up to exactly 1 dollar if A=1 cent, B=2 cents, C=3 cents, and so on. Click comment and add your dollar word and the numbers that each letter is worth that adds up to a dollar.

The 24 Game

3, 4, 7, 1

See if you can use the numbers above to make 24. You must use all 4 numbers, you can only use them once, and you can add, subtract, multiply, and/or divide. Click comment and tell us how you solved it! Hint: There is more than one solution, so if someone finds a correct solution, see if you can find a different one!

February-3 Children 5 Dollars!

In class today we worked on a problem: 3 children found 5 dollars. We had lots of questions about this problem, could they divide the money equally among themselves, if not, how could they get the most amount of money each (each person has to have the same amount) and how much would be left over? Figure this out on your own!! Parents you can guide, but don’t give away the farm. Use real money if you need to, elbow macaroni, draw pictures, or whatever will help you figure this out. Click comment to answer and explain how you solved:

October's Brain Teaser

Building Blocks
Question

Blocks

Color..................... Number of Blocks in Bag

Bag of Red Blocks ......407

Bag of Blue Blocks ......143

Bag of Green Blocks ....306

Bag of Yellow Blocks ....212

Ariel and Ling built a giant structure with plastic blocks.
They used 2 bags of the color with the most blocks in a bag.
They used 4 bags of the color with the fewest blocks in a bag.
They used 3 more bags of yellow blocks than bags of red blocks.
They used 3 bags of the remaining color.

How many blocks did they use in all?

September's Brain Teaser

Coin Catch

Mariah was cleaning out her purse and found a handful of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. She found 16 coins in all.

She had:
the same number of nickels as pennies.
$1.00 in quarters.
2 more dimes than quarters.

Use this information and the following U.S. coin values to answer the question below.
5 pennies = 5 cents, or 1 nickel
2 nickels = 10 cents, or 1 dime
5 nickels = 25 cents, or 1 quarter
4 quarters = 100 cents, or 1 dollar, written $1.00

How much money did she find in all?