3rd Grade DEEP in Math Problems of the Day! Set 4

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3rd Grade DEEP in MathProblems of the Day!Set 4
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• 1. Mr. Johnson wrote a check for three hundred
  twenty dollars to buy a new lawn mower.
• A. How many digits does it take to write this
  amount?
• ___________
• B. The bank teller gave Mr. Johnson three hundred
  twenty dollars in ten-dollar bills only. How many
  ten-dollar bills did Mr. Johnson receive?
  _____________
• 2. Study this number pattern. 4 7 11 14
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• A. What number will come next? ____________
• B. What do you have to do to get the next number?
  ___________________________
• 3. What is the opposite of each of these?
• A. backward ___________ b. front _____________
• C. down ___________ d. more _____________

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• Use the chart below to answer the following
• A. How many gumdrops can you buy for a dime?
  ______
• B. How many jaw breakers can you buy for two
  dimes? ________
• C. If Ben wanted to spend 38 cents, what could he
  buy? _________
• 2. Tripp has 24 baseball cards. He put them into
  stacks of 4.
• A. How many stacks did Tripp make? _______
• B. Explain how you figured out your answer.
  _____________________________________________

Gumdrops 2 cents Mints
3 cents Jaw Breakers 4
cents Peppermint Sticks 5 cents
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• 1. Each morning the first tourists arrive for
  their tour of the state capital at the time on
  the clock.
• A. What time do they arrive? ____________
• B. What is another way to say this time?
  ___________
• C. If the tour starts in 15 minutes, what time
  would it start? __________________
• 2. A dollar bill is about 6 inches long. What
  else is about 6 inches? ________________
• A. A birthday candle is three inches tall. Draw a
  line that is about three inches long. Do not use
  your ruler.
• 3. Which operation would you use to find the
  answer to the following?
• A. Kristen had 38. She spent 27 on a new
  blouse. You want to know how much ,money she has
  left. _________

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• 1. Mrs. McKays class was getting ready for their
  school play. They were voting on the kinds of
  decorations that they would put on the stage. The
  tally table shows the students choices.
• A. Create a bar graph to represent the results in
  Mrs. McKays class. Give your graph a title.
• ___________________________
• Balloons
• Flags
• Kites
• B. How many more students selected balloons than
  flags? ___________
• C. How many students voted in the survey?
  __________

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• How many blocks were used to build each of the
  following?
• a. _________ b.
  _________
• 2. Kristen was going to feed her puppy, her
  kitten, and her fish. She fed them in a different
  order every day. What are all of the ways the
  animals could have taken turns being fed?
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  _________________________

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• 1. There are two hundred twenty-five students in
  third grade at Southside Elementary.
• A. Write this number in standard form using
  digits. ___________
• B. Write the expanded form. ______________________
  ________
• C. Can the third graders be put in pairs to play
  partner games? ______
• D. Explain your answer. __________________________
  ___________
• 2. Chris bought 23 tickets for the barbecue
  dinner from Kristen. He bout 43 more tickets from
  Canon.
• A. Write a number sentence to find out how many
  tickets Chris bought altogether.
  ________________________________
• B. Write two subtraction sentences that are
  related to your number sentence.
• _________________________________
• _________________________________

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• 1. Write a number sentence and solve. Show your
  work.
• A. Snazzy Sam spent 129 on new clothes last
  month. Next month he plans to spend 360 more on
  new outfits. How much money will Sam have spent
  in all?
• B. Taylor and Crystal spent 45 minutes on the
  phone Monday. Tuesday they spent 33 more minutes
  on the phone. How many minutes did the girls
  spend talking on Monday and Tuesday?

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• 1. Write a number sentence and solve. Show your
  work.
• A. Quinn was planning to take a vacation next
  summer. He had saved 72 dollars before school
  started. During the school year he plans to save
  an additional 216 dollars. How much money does
  Quinn plan to have by the time his vacation rolls
  around?
• B. 27 girls 22 boys 49 children. Write a
  story to go with this number sentence.

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• 1. Rebecca and Karen were making 486 rice bags
  for a wedding in the park. Each girl made half of
  the bags. How many bags did each girl make?
  ___________________ Explain how you got your
• answer. __________________________________________
  ____
• 2. Mrs. Hernandez was putting students into
  after-school tutoring groups. There were 8
  students in group A there were 6 students in
  group B and there were 4 students in group C.
  Mrs. Hernandez rearranged the groups so that the
  same number of students was in each group. How
  many students would be in each group?
• There would be ________ students in each of the
  three groups.
• 3. There are sixteen students in Mrs. Carrolls
  third grade class. The students will play a game
  for recess. Mrs. Carroll divides the students so
  that there are four teams. How many students will
  be on each team? ___________________

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• Which operation, addition or subtraction, do you
  think about for each of these situations?
• a. Jackie and Larry went fishing. They both
  caught some fish. You want to know how many more
  fish Jackie caught. _________________
• b. Stella and Louis both planted some flowers.
  You want to know how many flowers they planted in
  all. ____________________
• c. Brody had some money. Cord had some money,
  too. You want to know the difference in the
  amounts of money they had. ___________________
• d. Dianna and Connie both had a handful of jelly
  beans. You
• want to know the sum of the jelly beans the
  girls had._________________
• 2. Karen had three dogs and two cats. What
  fraction of Karens pets are dogs? Write the
  fraction two different ways.
• __________________________________________________
  ______
• __________________________________________________
  ______

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• 1. Pat conducted a survey among her family
  members to find out the favorite color sports
  car. The pictograph shows the information she
  found.
• 
  Each car represents 2 votes
• Which of the bar graphs shows the same
  information.
• A.
  B.
• 0 2 4 6
  8 10 0 2 4 6
  8 10
• C. If all of the votes were spread out evenly
  among all colors in the graph, how many votes
  would each color have received?
  ____________________

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• 1. Jennifer and Mary Jo went shopping to buy
  supplies for the school fair. They had four
  hundred seventy-six dollars.
• A. The girls had ___ hundred-dollar bills, _____
  ten-dollar bills, and _____ one-dollar bills.
• B. Write the amount of money the girls had in
  standard form. ________
• 2. The girls bought balloons to use for the dart
  toss game. The bar graph shows the balloons they
  bought.
• Balloons for the Dart Toss
• Yellow
• Blue
• Red
• Green
• White
• 0 2 4 6 8
  10 12 14
• A. Which color balloon would you be least likely
  to hit? _________
• B. Explain your answer. __________________________
  _________________
• C. How many balloons will be on the board?
  _________________
• D. Explain how you got your answer.
• __________________________________________________
  _____________

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• A student will be able to toss three darts for
  one quarter.
• How many quarters are in a dollar? ______________
• How many darts will he be able to toss for one
  dollar? ___________
• (Draw a picture if it will help.)
• 2. Taylor threw six darts. She hit balloons with
  four of her darts. What fraction of her darts did
  not hit balloons? __________________
• 3. Benny spent five tickets at the dart throw,
  four tickets at the
• cake walk, and nine tickets at the dunking
  booths.
• How many tickets did Benny spend at the carnival?
  ___________
• If he had used the same number of tickets at each
  of the three booths, how many tickets would he
  have used at each booth? ___________
• 4. There were 236 tickets collected at the game
  booths and 412 tickets collected at the food
  booths. How many tickets were collected at both
  booths? Write a number sentence and show your
  work.
• __________________________________________________
  ____

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• 1. Twenty-four students participated in relay
  races. There were four teams in the race with the
  same number of students on each team. How many
  students were on each team? ____________________
• 2. One of the booths at the fair was a face
  painter. The pictograph shows types of pictures
  that the students selected.
• Types of Pictures
• 
  represents 5 students
• How many students had their faces painted?
  __________
• How many more students selected flowers than
  rainbows? ________
• Which two pictures were selected by the same
  number of students?
• ____________________ and _______________

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• 1. The Richardson family was planning their
  annual trip to the city. They knew that they had
  a nice long ride ahead of them, so they got up at
  515 Friday morning.
• A. Draw a clock with the hands showing 515.
• B. What is another way to say this time?
  _______________________________________
• 2. While Mr. John loaded the van, Mrs. Jenny
  fixed breakfast for the family. She scrambled 2
  eggs for each family member. She used ten eggs.
  That means that there are ________ people in the
  Richardson family.
• 3. After breakfast the Richardson family piled
  into the van headed for
• New Orleans. Willie and Millie quickly asked
  their dad how far they were going to
  travel to reach New Orleans. Mr. John said that
  they were going to travel about two hundred
  twenty-six miles. Write the different ways to
  show this distance.
• A. standard form ______________________
• B. expanded form ________________________________
  __
• C. digit and value ______________________________
  _____

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• 1. After about a half-hour on the road, Willie
  and Millie got restless. Mrs. Jenny taught them
  to play a game. She told them to record the
  colors of cars that they passed on the highway.
  The children quietly began to watch for cars.
  After about fifteen minutes, they had counted 3
  red cars, 4 white cars, 1 black car, and 2 silver
  cars.
• A. In fifteen minutes Willie and Millie counted
  ________ cars in all.
• B. Write a fraction that tells which part of the
  cars were black.
• ____________
• 2. Willie got bored with counting cars. He took
  out a book filled with brain games. His favorite
  was a math quiz in which he could gain and lose
  points. See if you can figure out his score. Use
  counters if they will help. He started with 4
  points. He gained 5 more points. Next he lost 3
  points. Then he gained 4 more points. Willies
  final score for this game was _________ points.

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• 1. Before long, little Tommy woke up and began to
  whine. He wanted to play a game, too. Mrs. Jenny
  took out a set of colored blocks. There were 8
  red blocks, 2 green blocks, 5 yellow blocks, and
  1 blue block. Tommy dropped the blocks into a
  box. Tommy and Mom began a game called Guess My
  Color.
• A. What colors of blocks were possible to be
  pulled from the box? _____________________________
  _b. Which color do you think Mom should guess
  first? __________
• C. Why do you think so? _________________________
• D. Which color do you think Mom should guess
  least often? ____________
• E Tell me why you gave that answer.
  ________________________
• 2. Millie didnt think she was very good in math,
  so she too out her drawing tablet. She drew 4
  cars traveling down a highway. She drew 5 people
  in each car. Millie drew a total of _____________
  
• people.
• (Draw a picture if that will help.)

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• 1 The family had to travel 226 miles to reach New
  Orleans. After they traveled 120 miles, Mr. John
  stopped to stretch his legs and to get something
  cold to drink. Were they more or less than
  halfway to New Orleans when they stopped?
  _______________
• Explain __________________________________________
  ________________________________________________
• 2. When the family was ready to get back into the
  car, it started to rain. Since they werent
  expecting rain, no one had brought an umbrella.
  What are the chances that they will get wet?
• A. certain b. likely c. unlikely
  d. impossible

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• The Richardson family was very happy when they
  reached their hotel. They changed quickly and
  walked downtown for lunch. The children were told
  that they could select one main dish and one
  drink from the menu.
• Main menu drinks
• Hamburger hot dog pizza
  soda lemonade
• List all the selections they could have made.
• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ___________________________