Math review & Power Point!
*Her Power Point is almost done and then we'll work on posting it to the site.
Sophie's been hard at work….here is her Math Review, which I am still reviewing for her but here it is—try it out for yourself:
Math Review selected from Guinness World Records Math, Grade 4 & 5
- If one polar bear weighs 880 pounds and another weighs 1,320 pounds, what is their mean (average) weight?
- Write 37.5 as a fraction.
- If a person's arm span is 5 1/3 feet, how much longer is the span of Lurch's horn (7 feet)? Write your answer in feet and in inches.
- What is the value of the 5 in 15,000?
- If squid were selling for $9.75 per pound and you needed 3 pounds, how much money would you spend?
- The frog's 3 jumps totaled 33 feet, 10 inches. If the frog jumped twice as far, how many feet and inches would it have jumped?
- On one particular day, a group of hummingbirds ate the following amounts of food: 1.5 grams, 2 grams, 1.75 grams, 1.5 grams, 1.25 grams, and 1.8 grams. Find the mode of the data.
- Suppose Midge, the world's smallest police dog, has a dog house at the station for when she is off duty. If her dog house measures 3 feet by 4 feet, what is the total area of Midge's dog house?
- The Tyrannosaurus rex corprolite weighed 15 pounds. Which item would most likely weight the same?
A. a dictionary B. a pair of shoes C. 2 gallon jugs of water D. a car
- If Mount Stromboli erupted every hour, how many hours did it erupt during the period of March 2010 to June 2010?
- If one day on Venus equals 243.16 Earth days, about how many Earth months does it equal? Round the answer to the nearest whole month.
- How many yardsticks standing end to end would be needed to measure Olympia , the world's tallest snowman (122 feet, 1 inch) height?
- About 95 percent of Yellowstone National Park lies in Wyoming . How much of the park's 3,470 square miles lie outside of Wyoming ?
A. 3,296.5 square miles B. 347 miles C. 173.5 miles D. 86.75 miles
- Yellowstone National Park consists of more than 3,470 square miles. Square miles indicate which measurement?
A. perimeter B. length C. area D. volume
15. A cabbage most closely resembles which three-dimensional shape?
A. circle B. cylinder C. sphere D. prism
16. If the World's Heaviest Hailstones averaged 2.2 pounds each, approximately how many hailstones would total 74 pounds?
17. The maze has 16, 830 feet of tree-lined passages. Write the number in expanded form.
18. Complete the following expanded form that describes the length in feet of the world's Longest Tightrope Crossed (11,368 feet and 1,32 inches).
11,368= 10,000 + ___________________ + __________ + 60 + ________
19. If 1 canned soft drink cost 40 cents, how much would all the cans Evans balanced on his head (429) cost in all?
20. Which number is closest to 33 seconds?
A. ¼ minute B. ½ minute C. 1 minute
21. Arrange the following numbers in order from the least to the greatest.
128, 089 16,209 33,826 25,408
22. What is 375.07 written as a mixed number?
23. Suppose you have 50 dollar, 20 dollar, 10 dollar, 5 dollar, and 1 dollar bills. What is the least number of bills you could use to pay for the world's Most Expensive Hamburger ($186.00)?
24. Is 33.2 inches greater than or less than 3 feet? How many inches greater or less than 3 feet is it?
25. If the world's Largest Pizza Base Spun in 2 minutes (33.2 inch diameter and 17.6 ounces of dough) were cut into 4 equal pieces, how many ounces of dough would make up each piece?
26. Suppose a braid was made from the hair of 130 people and each person's hair was about the same length as the hair that was used to break the record in 1998 (65 people's hair braided for a braid 123 feet) how long would the braid be?
27. Is the distance of 12.7 miles closer to 12 miles or 13 miles? Draw a number line to show your thinking.
28. Shri Shri Baba Shr Jr.'s beard dreadlock is 6 feet long. That is equal to __________ yards.
29. How many quarters are in $200,000 dollars?
30. What is the greatest common factor of 21 and 24?
31. The average height of a 5th grader is 4 feet 8 inches tall. How much more would a 5th grader have to grow to reach the height of the world's Tallest Living Man (6 feet 9.75 inches)?
32. Id each diamond on the world's Most Expensive Computer Mouse (59 diamonds) was worth $5000.00 how much would the diamonds on the computer mouse be worth altogether?
33. If Anting was able to keep his pace of extinguishing 5 candles every 17 seconds, how long would it take him to extinguish 25 candles?
34.The average length of a 5th grader's foot is 8 inches. Estimate how many 5th graders feet would be needed to equal the length of the world's Largest Cowboy Boot (8 feet 2 inches tall and 7 feet 10 inches long)?
35. What does circumference express?
A. the inside volume of a sphere B. the distance around a circle or sphere C. the inside volume of a trapezoid D. the distance around a prism
36. Which geometric figure does a brick most resemble?
A. cylinder B. square pyramid C. rectangular prism D. sphere
37. Singh pulled the double-decker bus 69 ½ feet. Write this number as a decimal.
38. The total weight of Hardy's 16 blocks was 1, 173 pounds. Write the weight in expanded form.
39. Chess is a board game for 2 people. How many total board games could have been going on at the same time during the tournament on June 2, 2007 if 1,214 people played chess?
40. If the Pacific bluefin tuna traveled at a rate of 15 miles per hour, about how many days would it take it to travel 5,800 miles without stopping? Explain your thinking.
41. Suppose you lined up 100 viperfish teeth (0.5 inches length). How long would they measure in all?
42. The world's Largest Amethyst Geode is 9 feet 10 inches long. What fraction of a foot is 10 inches equal to?
A. 1/10 of a foot B. 5/6 of a foot C. ½ of a foot D. 9/10 of a foot
43. A tornado that travels 30 miles per hour will travel __________miles in 1.5 hours.
44. "Hang ten" is a surfing phrase that refers to 10 toes on a surfboard. How many toes rode the wave ridden by the Most Surfers Riding the Same Wave (110 surfers)?
45. If each piece of the world's Longest Loaf of Bread were equal (3,975 feet long and fed 15,000 people) about how long would each person's piece be?
46. Up to how much can the Andean condor weigh in ounces (27 pounds)?
47. Which of the following could not be a width measurement of the Grand Canyon ?
A. 16 kilometers B. 16,000 meters C. 1, 600,000 centimeters D. 16 kilograms
48. Suppose you walked 27 dogs, each valued at the same price as the world's Most Expensive Dog ($563,000). How much would the dogs be worth altogether?
49. If a giraffe were measured in hands (1 hand = 4 inches), how many hands tall would the tallest giraffe be (19 feet)?
50. If each acre of Central Park has the same number of trees (5 million trees over 700 acres), estimate the number of trees per acre.
Sophie, I am sad to say I am not sure I could pass your review...lol...
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