LET’S PLAY ALGEBRA JEOPARDY!! Created by Martin Boonstra May, 2008

PatternsEquationsRates of Change Solve me Please Algebra is Easy Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final JeopardyJeopardy

$100 Question from Patterns The 5 th number in the pattern 400, 200, 100, ……

$100 Answer from Patterns What is 25?

$200 Question from Patterns The rule used to make the pattern 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, 127

$200 Answer from Patterns What is times two plus one?

$300 Question from Rates of Change A store is having a going out of business sale. The chart shows the discount They are giving each week. If this pattern continues, what will the discount be in week 6?WEEK DISCOUN T 15% 210% 320% 435%

$300 Answer from Patterns What is 80%?

$400 Question from Patterns DOUBLE JEOPARDY The rule used to make this pattern

$400 Answer from Patterns What is times two (x2)?

$500 Question from Patterns The next number in the pattern 10, 20, 31, 43, 56, ____

$500 Answer from Patterns What is 70?

$100 Question from Equations The solution to x + 34 = 100

$100 Answer from Equations What is x = 66

$200 Question from Equations The solution to x-28 = 100

$200 Answer from Equations What is 128?

$300 Question from Equations The solution to 3x = 18

$300 Answer from Equations What is x = 6

$400 Question from Equations The solution to 45 + x = 96

$400 Answer from Equations What is x = 51

$500 Question from Equations The equation for the following problem: Bill saved a total of $45 for 9 weeks. The equation for this problem will have x for the Amount he saved each week.

$500 Answer from Equations What is 9x = 45?

$100 Question from Rates of Change DOUBLE JEOPARDY Lucille walked 4 miles in 1 hour. At the same rate, how many minutes will it take her to walk 2 miles?

$100 Answer from Rates of Change What is 30 minutes?

$200 Question from Rates of Change Billy Bob puts the same amount of Money in his bank account every week. At the end of 12 weeks he had put $36 in to the account. This is how much money Billy Bob put in his account each week

$200 Answer from Rates of Change What is $3?

$300 Question from Rates of Change The temperature was 75 degrees at noon. This is the temperature at 5pm if the temperature went up 2 degrees every hour.

$300 Answer from Rates of Change What is 85 degrees?

$400 Question from Rates of Change Vance uses 2 cups of flour for Each loaf of banana bread. He can make this Many loaves from 30 cups of flour.

$400 Answer from Rates of Change What is 15 loaves?

$500 Question from Rates of Change Harold saved three dollars every week. He stopped saving and had thirty three dollars. This is how many weeks he saved money.

$500 Answer from Rates of Change What is 11 weeks?

$100 Question from Solve Me Please George has an album for his baseball cards. The album holds up to 85 cards. George has collected 26 cards so far. This is the equation for finding how many more cards Will fit in the album.

$100 Answer from Solve Me Please What is 85 – 26 = x? or What is 26 + x = 85? or What is x + 26 = 85?

$200 Question from Solve Me Please DOUBLE JEOPARDY You must be at least 48 inches or taller to ride the Drop Zone at Carowinds. This is the inequality that describes the height, h, of people who CAN ride the Drop Zone

$200 Answer from Solve Me Please What is h > 48?

$300 Question from Solve Me Please Rhiannon kept a chart to show How many pages she read each day. This is how many pages she will read on the eleventh day if she continues this pattern.Day Pages Read

$300 Answer from Solve Me Please What is 56 pages?

$400 Question from Solve Me Please The number in this pattern that is wrong and the change to correct the pattern

$400 Answer from Solve Me Please What is replace the 14 with 16?

$500 Question from Solve Me Please Paul weighs more than two times as much as Edward. If Edward weighs 70 pounds, this is the inequality that represents Paul’s weight (HINT: make Paul’s weight p)

$500 Answer from Solve Me Please What is p > 140

$100 Question from Algebra is Easy Karen makes birdhouses using twigs. She needs 63 twigs to make one birdhouse. This is how many twigs she will need to make 10 birdhouses.

$100 Answer from Algebra is Easy What is 630 twigs?

$200 Question from Algebra is Easy This is the name for a letter that is an unknown amount in an algebraic expression or equation.

$200 Answer from Algebra is Easy What is a variable?

$300 Question from Algebra is Easy Kelly makes Kool-Aid using four cups of water for each packet. This is the expression that tells how much water he should use for p packs of Kool-Aid.

$300 Answer from Algebra is Easy What is 4 X p or What is 4p?

$400 Question from Algebra is Easy WeekAllowance Total Earned TotalSaved1$3$3$8 2$3$6$11 3$3$9$14 Karen has $5 saved, but wants a Bratz doll that costs $21. She gets $3 a week in allowance. This is the number of weeks it will take her to have enough money to buy the doll.

$400 Answer from Algebra is Easy What is 6 weeks?

$500 Question from Algebra is Easy DOUBLE JEOPARDY The next ordered pair: (1,3) (2,12) (3, 48) (4, 192) (?,?)

$500 Answer from Algebra is Easy What is (5,768)?

Final Jeopardy This is the number of pencils ordered on the 100 th day.Day Pencils Ordered

Final Jeopardy Answer What is 203 pencils? (the rule is x 2+3)