Here's your sign, Third Grade!

 

Can you place + and - signs between the following numerals to make the equation true? You can only use a total of 3 symbols and you cannot rearrange the numerals.

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100

 

Ok, third graders...can you figure out my challenge?  You must really think hard!  Use your strategies and show me your class is full of Smarty Pants!

Hit a Homerun...Fourth Grade!

What's round, hard and sold for $3 million dollars?

 



 

Mark McGwire became baseball's home run king in 1998 with 70 home runs.  His 70th home run ball sold for slightly more than $3 million dollars in 1999.  Babe Ruth, an earlier home run king, hit 60 in 1927.  His home run ball was donated to the Hall of Fame.  Suppose that Ruth's ball was valued at $3000 in 1927 and, like many good investments, doubled it value every seven years.  Would you rather have the value or Ruth's ball or McGwire's ball?

Tell me, fourth grade...can you hit a home run and solve my challenge?  Show me how you solved this problem and that your class is full of WPE Smarty Pants!


Look out...we have some fourth graders who can hit a homerun in math!

Digging for the Right Answer in Kindergarten

A Pilgrim child was digging for clams one day.   On her first try she found 3 clams.  Then she found 2 more on her second try, and on her third try she found 1 more clam.

How many clams did she find altogether?

Make a plan...draw a picture to help you solve this problem.

 

Solve the problem...

 

Check your work...does this answer make sense?

 

Share your answer with Mrs. Edwards!

Look at what Mrs. Glass's class shared with me...AWESOME job, Kindergarten!

 

 

 

 

 

Third Grade on Parade...

Ok, third grade...it's time for your challenge...don't let me down!  Can you show me how many Smarty Pants we have in Third Grade? 

 

It’s time for the annual school fall parade. The third grade decides to march in a special formation this year. One person walks in the first row, two people walk in the second row and three people walk in the third row. This pattern continues on and on.

 

• If the whole third grade marches in 10 full rows, how many students are in the third grade?

 

• Use numbers, words, tables and/or pictures to explain how you know your answer is correct.

 

 Check out some of the ways our third graders solved this problem...


Draw it out...



Addition...

 Line plot...

 

Make a table...

Buckets of Smartness from Second Grade!

Farmer Gilbert milks his cows early in the morning. One morning, he milked four of his cows. He got 3 buckets of milk from each cow.

•  Draw Farmer Gilbert's four cows.  Draw the 3 buckets of milk beside each cow.
• How many groups of 3 buckets of milk do you see? _______.
• There are _____ buckets of milk altogether.

Want to see some 2nd graders using the Sock Puppets app to answer the challenge...thanks Mrs. Doss for sharing.

Check out the video Mrs. Doss's class made using the Videolicious app to answer the challenge.  CLICK HERE! 

Thanks, Mrs. Hale for sharing your class answer!

Packing the Right Answer, Fourth Grade

19.8 lbs.

18.05 lbs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



19.5 lbs.

19.35 lbs.




18.9 lbs.

       













Here's your challenge fourth grade...you're going to really have to do some thinking to solve my problem!

Elena, Joe, Owen, Samantha, and Grant have weighed their backpacks.

• Elena's backpack weighs the most.
• Owen's backpack weighs 0.45 lb less than Joe's backpack.
• Samantha's lunch weighs 1.5 lb. With that lunch out of the backpack, the backpack weighs 16.55 lb.
• Grant's backpack weighs more than Owen's.

How much does each person's backpack weigh?

 

 

Counting On You, First Grade

First Grade...If you think your class is a bunch of smarty pants, answer my question.  Turn your class answer into Mrs. Edwards and I will let you know if you are correct.  Good luck, first grade!

Mrs. Edwards is counting books in the library. She has just counted the 17th book. What numbers will Mrs. Edwards say for the next 5 books?  Write these numbers down.

17, _________, ___________, ___________, __________, ___________

Look at Mrs. Thompson's Smarty Pants!  They emailed me a picture of their answer...way to go!