Activities for FAST FINISHERS By Marc Tyler Nobleman P ROFESSIONAL S C H O L A S T I C NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON AUCKLAND SYDNEY MEXICO CITY NEW DELHI HONG KONG BUENOS AIRES B OOKS
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CONTENTS About This Book...4 Student Checklist....5 Whole Number Operations Time for the Future...6 Many Pennies Lane...7 Half Time...8 Grab, Add N Win!.... 9 Desperately Seeking 68....10 Numberless Subtraction...11 Big Spenders...12 A Perfect Match...13 Eight Is Great...14 Radio Riches...15 Tag Sale Tally...16 Good Things Come in Threes....17 Number Pole...18 Meanie Genie....19 Get the Scoop!....20 The Number Shuffle...21 A-Maze-ing!... 22 Lights, Camera, Action!... 23 Number and Number Theory Reaching the Top...24 Harvest Riddle....25 Three s a Charm...26 Find the Bookend...27 Abracadabra!... 28 Pyramid Challenge....29 Think Ahead...30 Hit the Road...31 Sum Good Facts...32 STRENGTH in Numbers....33 Prime Time for Prime Numbers..34 Little Number, BIG Impact...35 Decimals Tic-Tac-Decimal....36 Defying Physics....37 Puzzle Time...38 Time for a Laugh...39 Fractions Get Cracking!....40 Balloon Journey...41 Fraction Action...42 Out of This World...43 Improper Ages...44 Percents Everything Must Go!... 45 Get With the Team....46 Dino Bone Zone...47 Problem Solving Milk Money...48 Money Matters...49 Find Your Way Out...50 Guess Your Best....51 Mark and Darcy s Game...52 On the Wall...53 Speed Readers...54 Think Inside the Box....55 In Search of Numbers...56 Alien Phenomenon...57 One-Hit Wonder...58 Break the Code!... 59 Oops, Wrong Number....60 Answers...61
Date Name Time for the Future A time capsule is a box filled with items from a certain period of time and buried for people in the future to dig up. A time mathsule is very similar, except you need to use math to know when it was buried. When was each time mathsule buried? Add up the numbers that are part of each mathsule. The total is the year it was buried. (There is a lot of stuff in each these are very big time mathsules!) Addition 1. 900 Confederate coins 82 hats 439 newspapers 445 arrowheads 2. 314 essays by schoolchildren 60 train tickets 740 food labels 567 I Went to the Moon buttons 288 expired drivers licenses 3. 500 postage stamps 202 compact discs set of 24 encyclopedias 582 adhesive bandages 90 pounds of instant oatmeal 592 bottle caps YOUR TURN Create a mathsule from the year 476. 4. passports from 79 countries 435 menus copies of 773 birth announcements 168 fishing hooks 100 crayons lyrics to 50 popular songs phone books from 342 cities 5. 23 dog collars 13 magazines signatures of 38 mayors 26 flags 1801 newspapers 6. $200 cash 320 wooden spoons 681 broken watches 596 photographs 102 bow ties 6 Activities for Fast Finishers: Math Scholastic Professional Books
Date Name Many Pennies Lane The Beatles were one of the most famous rock bands of the 20th century. One of their most wellknown songs was called Penny Lane. Look at the list of song titles below. How would they be renamed when converted to pennies? You may write with numbers instead of writing out your answer in words. The first one is done for you. Converting and Adding Money Song title Song title converted to pennies 1. Twenty Dollars Lane 2,000 Pennies Lane 2. Seven Dollars Lane 3. Sixty-One Quarters Lane 4. One Hundred Eleven Nickels Lane 5. Two Dollars and Nineteen Cents Lane 6. Four Hundred Dimes Lane 7. Eighty-One Dollars and One Cent Lane 8. One Dollar and Ninety-Nine Cents Lane 9. Penny and Dollar Lane 10. Ninety-One Half-Dollars Lane 11. Three Dollars and Twenty Nickels Lane 12. One Thousand Dollars Lane Activities for Fast Finishers: Math Scholastic Professional Books 7