Math Challenge: How Much Does It Cost? 1. A pet store was having a going out of business sale. The price of a snake was $100 on Monday, $50 on Tuesday, and $25 on Wednesday. Each day the store kept cutting the price in half. If Steve had $3.50, on what day will he have enough money to buy the snake? 2. A pencil and pen together cost $1.20. If the pen cost twice as much as the pencil, how much does the pencil cost? Writing Challenge:
If you haven't completed last week's Write to a Senior Challenge, I encourage you to do so. Here is a new writing challenge: Create a sentence with words that begin with the letters in sentence, in order. In other words, the first word in the sentence should begin with s, the second with e, the third with n, etc.
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Math Challenge: New Challenge this week:
Writing Challenge: Write a Letter to a Senior Most Assisted Living and Senior Living Facilities are on lockdown and the residents are feeling very isolated. Write a letter to cheer someone up! Click here for addresses to some local senior living facilities that would love to hear from you! Math Challenge: STEM Challenge:
Basketball Tower Create a tower that can support a basketball using only newspaper and tape. A basketball is pretty heavy...... do you think you can make a tower out of newspaper (or regular paper) that can support it? Materials: Basketball (if you don't have one, use another type of ball) Newspaper or plain paper Tape Extra Challenge: Limit the amount of newspaper (or tape) used or try to make the tallest tower possible that will still hold the weight. Math:
Is Dan Losing His Marbles? Dan played 3 games of marbles. In the first game, he lost ½ of his marbles. In the second game he won 4 marbles. In the third game he won the same number of marbles as he had at the end of the second game. He finished with 32 marbles. How many marbles did Dan start with? What is the most efficient strategy to solve this problem? Can you solve it in more than one way? STEM: What are the components of a circuit? 1. 2. 3. Draw two ways to get a lightbulb lit. Make sure to label your components. |
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