2nd Grade Problem of Day

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2nd Grade Problem of Day Set 3
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The fairgrounds open Saturday morning at 930.

• Draw a clock to show this time.
• What would be another way
• to say this time?

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There are 57 people in line for the roller
coaster. Is this an even or odd number in
line?_____How do you know? ______________________
__________________________________________________
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18 tickets are separated equally among 3
children. How many tickets does each child
get?_________
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Ben put 248 gumballs in the gumball
machine. After a week, Ben had already chewed
115 of the gumballs. How many gumballs did
Ben have left in his gumball machine?______
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Kids Company ordered two hundred forty-five games.

• How many digits would it take to write the number
  of games?___________
• Write the numeral for the underlined word.

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Read each of the following sentences. Label them
possible, certain, or impossible.

• Today is Monday and tomorrow will be Wednesday.
  ____________________
• It will rain next week. ________________
• If you put your hands on a hot stove, it will
  burn you. __________________
• With only 2 seconds left in the game, Jim scores
  2 points. ______________

impossible
certain
possible
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The Sports Gang
Tom Jeff Sam Ralph
Jan

• Ralph is in the fourth position. How many people
  are in front of him? ____
• 2. Now everyone turns and faces the other way.
  How many people are in front of him
  now?__________________

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Bill mailed 8 invitations. Sal mailed 9
invitations.

• What is the difference between the number of
  invitations Bill mailed and the number of
  invitations Sal mailed?
• Together the boys mailed out a total of ________
  invitations.

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• Jim had 4 puppies. Three-fourths of his puppies
  are brown. How many of his puppies are brown?

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Lucy is making supper for 5 people. Each person
is going to get 2 hotdogs, a bag of chips, and 2
cookies.

• To have enough food for all 5 people, Lucy will
  have to have
• ________ hotdogs _______ bags of chips
  _______ cookies
• b. It takes 6 minutes to make one plate of food.
  How long will it take for her to make 2 plates of
  food? __________

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Ms. Smith makes 8 pretty bows. She divides them
equally among her girls. How many bows does
each girl get?
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Danielle got 48 pencils when school started. She
has used 36 of her pencils so far. You want to
find out how many pencils Danielle still has.

• Would you add or subtract to find out how many
  pencils she still has?________
• Based on the operation you chose, will your
  answer be more or less than 48? ____

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The children at Greenville Elementary were having
their eyes checked by the school nurse. Some
children were checked before recess.

• Ann Josh Kate Mariah

If Ann was the ninth person to be checked by the
school nurse, then who was the twelfth person to
be checked? ______________ Look at the
children in line. If Josh was the third person
to be checked, then Mariah was the ___________
person checked!
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List all the different ways Brooke, Blakelyn, and
Colby can line up one behind the other to play a
game. There are ________ ways.

• _________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  _____________________

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Katelyn likes pink jellybeans. Her dad buys her
a bag containing 5 red, 3 green, 4 pink, and 8
yellow jellybeans.

• If Katelyn closes her eyes and reaches in the
  bag, does she have a fair or unfair chance of
  getting a pink jellybean? _____
• Which color would Katelyn most likely pull from
  the bag without looking? _____

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Jackie has 15 jellybeans. If she puts them into
three equal piles, then how many will be in each
pile?

• Each pile will have ____ in each.
• If she shares with two friends, how many will her
  two friends get? _____

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• How many times does this pattern repeat?_________
• Find the orange shaded rectangle. In what
  position is it in?____________
• If this pattern would repeat again, which shape
  would be next? ____________

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• Can you find any rectangles?
• Do you see any triangles?
• I see some squares. Can you find them?
• Draw a house in
• your journal. Find some shapes!

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Look at the following pictures. Decide which are
parallel and perpendicular!
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• The object on the left is a three dimensional
  __________. Can you list any other objects that
  you know like this?
• _________________________________________________
  _________________________________________