Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Optional Math Activities

Optional Math Problems for Week of September 3rd

#1 Beauty is trying to tell the Beast about apples.  He only knows about oranges.  What would you tell the Beast about ways an orange is like an apple and how they are different.  He knows about grapes but not bananas.  Compare grapes and bananas for the Beast. 

#2 Hailey has 2 nickels and 15 pennies.  Her friend has lots of nickels and dimes.  Hailey trades equal value for different coins.  What could she have traded?  She trades once more with her mother.  What do you think she has now?