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

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3rd Grade DEEP in MathProblems of the Day!Set 3
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• 1. Write a number sentence (equation) for each
  situation.
• A. Tabby spent 2 dollars yesterday and 8 dollars
• today. How much did she spend in all?
• ___________________________________________
• B. Eve had 27 dollars. She bought a sweater on
  sale for 15 dollars. How much money does Eve have
  left?
• ___________________________________________
• C. Mikelyn is 59 inches tall, and Shawna is 56
  inches tall. What is the difference in their
  heights?
• _____________________________________________
• 2. Write a story to go with this number sentence
  
• 17 rocks- 9 rocks 8 rocks.
• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ___________________________________

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• 1. Brodys team scored 25 points in the first
  half of the basketball game. At the end of the
  game, they had 46 points. How many points did the
  team score in the second half?
• a. 25 points _____ points 46 points
• in the first half in the second half
  in the game
• b. 46 points - 25 points _____ points
• in the game in the first half
  in the second half
• c. Which number sentence did you actually use to
  find the points that the team scored in the
  second half? Explain
• 2. Look at these shapes
• What fraction of these figures are triangles?
  _______________
• Draw the next two shapes in the pattern.

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• 5. Canon was waiting in line at the concession
  stand at the movie theater. He was going to
  choose a food and a drink.
• Make a list of all the choices Canon can have.
• b. How many choices does Canon have? ___________

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• 1. Mary baked some apple and blackberry pies
• for the school bake sale. She baked 6 apple pies.
  The rest are blackberry pies. Mary baked a total
  of 15 pies. Write a number sentence that
  represents the story of Marys pies. Let a happy
  face represent the unknown number of blackberry
  pies.
• _______________________________________
• 2. When you measure one yard or one foot of
  material, you are measuring the ___________ of
  the item.
• 3. One foot is _______ inches, so three feet is
  ______inches.
• 4. Two feet is what part or what fraction of a
  whole yard?
• _________________

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• Mrs. Moniers classes presented reports on
  different presidents of the United States. Then
  the classes voted on whom they thought was the
  most famous president. The graph below shows the
  results of the voting.
• Most Famous Presidents
• Each represents 3 votes
• Which president was voted most famous? __________
• Abraham Lincoln received ____ more votes than
  Theodore Roosevelt.
• Jimmy Carter received one-half as many votes as
  ________________________

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• 1. Write the standard form or digits for each
  underlined number. Remember to label your
  answers.
• A. Francis has 200603 stamps in her collection.
  _______
• B. Bobby sold one hundred ninety-seven barbecue
  tickets. _______
• C. My lunch has five hundred eighty
  calories.________
• D. Mr. Rogers earns 700809 dollars each
  week._______
• 2. John Ross received between 417 and 487 votes
  in the city election.
• A. What is one number between 417 and 487 that
  might be the number of votes that John Ross
  received? ________
• B. Write that number in expanded form.
  _______________
• 3. Mr. Monier went to the bank to cash a check
  for
• 367 dollars. The teller gave Mr. Monier
• ______ hundred-dollar bills, ______ ten-dollar
  bills, and ______ one-dollar bills.

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• Greenville Elementary School participated in a
  recycling contest. Each grade level was required
  to collect aluminum cans. Below is a chart
  showing how many cans each grade level received.
• a. Write the numbers of cans collected at each
  grade level from greatest to least.
• b. Which grade level came closest to collecting
  300 cans? __________
• C. Write 308 cans using words. __________________

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• 1. During the recycling process, cans are crushed
  and put in to packages with ten cans in each
  package. If 286 cans go into the recycling
  machine, there will be ______ packages of ten
  cans with _____ extra cans left over.
• 2. Mikelyns family owns a grocery store, so she
  was able to take in one-half of the 286 cans
  collected from the third grade-class.
• Mikelyn took in ____ cans.
• 3. Write a sentence comparing 299 cans and 308
  cans. Use less than, greater than, or equal to in
  your sentence.
• ____________________________________________

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• 1. The Greenville cheerleaders washed cars
  Saturday to raise money to buy new uniforms. They
  washed 8 cars in the morning and the some more
  cars in the afternoon. By the end of the day,
  they had washed a total of 17 cars.
• a. Write a number sentence that shows how many
  cars were washed. Let a C represent the unknown
  number of cars.
• _________________________________________________
  _____
• B. How many cars did the cheerleaders wash in the
  afternoon? _________
• 2. Joshs baseball bat was two feet long. Chriss
  bat was 27 inches long.
• A. Which boys baseball bat was shorter?
  ________________
• B. Explain how you know that your answer is
  correct. _________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  _________________

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• Kevin has about 400 cards in his collection.
• Which of these could be the number of cards Kevin
  
• has?
• 39 cards b. 489 cards c. 391 cards d.
  404 cards
• 2. When numbers put into a box, they come out as
  different numbers. Study the numbers below.
• 2 7 4 9
  5 10
• 7 ?
• If you put the number 7 into the box, what number
  will come out of the box? _____________
• Explain how you know. ___________________________
  _________________

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• 1. The Cockrell boys all had coins in their back
  pockets.
• Tuckers Cords Canons
  Brodys
• Change Change Change
  Change
• Which boy had the most money? _____________
• Which two boys had the same amount of money?
  __________________
• 2. Pam has some seashells in her collection. Her
  sister has 11 shells. Together, the girls have 27
  shells. Write a number sentence to represent this
  story.
• _________________________________________

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• 1. This chart tells how many times four students
  jumped rope in thirty minutes. Study the chart.
  Then answer the following questions.
• A. Which students number of jumps is about
  thirty? _____
• B. How many more times did Ella jump than Leroy?
  _____
• 2. Evas teacher is making home visits. Mr. Smith
  figures that it will take him 5 minutes to travel
  each mile. He wants to know how long it will take
  to get to Evas house from school. What
  information does he need to know?
• A. how many miles it is to Evas house
• B. how many minutes it will take to get to Evas
  house
• C. how Eva gets to school each day
• D. what time it will be when he leaves school

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The bar graph shows the number of different pets
owned by the students in Ms. Chins class. Use
the information in the graph to answer the
following questions.

• How many dogs do the students have? _________
• Which pet appears more than 9 times, but fewer
  than 13 times? _________________
• How many more fish are needed to have more fish
  than cats? __________________
• About how many students are in Ms. Chins class?
  _________
• What statement can you make about this bar
  graph?____________________________________________
  _____

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F E D C B A
1 2 3
4 5 6
5. Draw a water fountain at F4.
1. The principals office is located
at ________________ . 2. The playground
is located at _______________________. 3. Our
classroom is located at
_____________________. 4. The cafeteria
is located at ________________________.
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• 1. Mary has 53 smiley-face stickers and 36
  dinosaur stickers. How many stickers does she
  have altogether? Show your work.
  ___________________________
• 2. Last week, John earned 39 mowing lawns. This
  week, he earned 28. How much more did he earn
  last week? Show your work. _______________________
  
• 3. Alexis got out three small paper bags. She put
  four suckers into each bag.
• A. Draw a picture of Alexiss bags of suckers.
• B. Write an addition sentence to represent the
  total number of suckers Alexis used
  ____________________
• C. How many groups of four suckers did Alexis
  use? ____

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• 1. Fred bought 5 feet of rope. Dennis bought 2
  yards of rope.
• A. Who bought more rope? ___________
• B. How do you know? __________________________
• 2. Mikey weighs between 40 and 50 pounds. You can
  reach her weight if you skip count by six. How
  much could Mikey weigh? (There could be more than
  one answer.) _____________
• 3. Mrs. Janice is making meatball stew. The
  recipe calls for 2 pounds of beef and 5 potatoes.
• beef
  potatoes
• If Mrs. Janice needs twice as much stew, she will
  need to use ______ pounds of beef and __________
  potatoes.

1 pound
1 pound
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• 1. The UL football game started at 730 p.m.
  Saturday evening.
• A. Draw a clock to show this time.
• B. What is another way to say this time?
  _____________________________________________
• 2. Mrs. Green put her students into groups of
  three for a science project. How many children
  could Mrs. Green have in her class?
• A. 13 students b. 14 students c. 17
  students d. 21 students
• 3. Betsi is just learning how to write her name
  in cursive. She can write her name 3 times in 2
  minutes.
• Betsi Jade Smith Betsi Jade Smith Betsi Jade
  Smith
• A. How many times can Betsi write her name in 4
  minutes? _______
• B. How many times can Betsi write her name in 6
  minutes? _______
• C. How many times can Betsi write her name in 8
  minutes? _______

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• September
• 1. Kristens twelfth birthday is the third
  Thursday in September. When is her birthday?
  ____________
• 2. Canons birthday is one week after Kristens.
  When is his birthday? ____________
• 3. There a _______ days in one week, so Cannons
  birthday is _____ days after Kristins birthday.
• 4. What day does September start on?
  _____________
• 5. What day would October start on?
  ______________

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• 1. Look at these figures.
• A. Which of these figures
  is different from the
  rest? ___________
• B. Explain how it is different.
  _____________________________________________
• C. Draw a line to separate each of the figures in
  half.2. Which of these items weighs less than a
  pound?
• A. B. C.
  D.
• 3. Eddie has 14 ten-dollar bills. He has ________
  dollars.
• 4. Lane has a hundred-dollar bill, 2 ten-dollar
  bills, and 3 one-dollar bills. He has _________
  dollars.