2. 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Geometry Coordinate Grids Fractions, Decimals, Percent Measurement Conversions Potpourri

3. Sean built a new sandbox and wants to fill it with sand. This is what he needs to know about his sandbox before buying the sand. Choose from the answers below: A.The perimeter of the sandbox. B.The mass of the sandbox. C.The length of the sandbox. D.The volume of the sandbox.

4. What is D. The volume of the sandbox? Explanation: The amount of space inside a 3 dimensional object is known as its volume, so that is what Sean needs to know.

5. Janet wanted to put new carpeting in her bedroom. Of the following choices, this is the only possible measurement of the area of the floor in her room. A.100 feet B.100 square inches C.100 square feet D.100 cubic feet

6. What is C. 100 square feet Explanation: Janet needs to know the area of her floor. Area is always expressed in square units. 100 square inches would be much too small for her bedroom, so the only possible answer would be 100 square feet.

7. 80 degrees 100 degrees A parallelogram is shown below. This is the measurement of the missing angle.

8. What is 100 degrees Explanation: The sum of all the angles in any quadrilateral is 360 degrees. The sum of the three angles given is 260 degrees, so the fourth angle must be 100 degrees.

9. Mr. Brown is putting a fence around his yard so his dog cannot get out. Of the following measurements, this is a possible amount of fencing that he would buy: A.140 centimeters B.140 yards C.140 square yards D.140 cubic yards

10. What is B. 140 yards? Explanation: Mr. Brown needs to know the length of the fence he needs, so his answer can’t be square yards (which is an answer for area) or cubic yards (which is an answer for volume). The only possible answers are 140 centimeters or 140 yards. 140 centimeters is much too short, so 140 yards has to be the answer.

11. John bought a box of candy for his mom for Valentine’s Day. This is a possible answer for the volume of the box. A)120 cubic inches B)100 inches C)110 square inches D)100 meters

12. What is A. 120 cubic inches? Explanation: Volume always has to be expressed in cubic units.

13. This is the ordered pair where the blue dot is located on the coordinate grid to the left.

14. What is (2, 5)?

15. Jill was drawing a rectangle on a coordinate grid. She put three of the points in the locations shown. This the coordinate where the fourth point needs to be.

16. What is (5, 3)?

17. Joe drew the triangle that is pictured to the right. The distance between each number is 1 centimeter and the length of the diagonal is 5 cm. This is the perimeter of the triangle. 5 cm.

18. What is 12 centimeters?

19. An ant needed to travel from one blue dot to the other blue dot in the grid that is shown. The ant could only travel on grid lines. If the distance between each grid line on the grid is 1 cm., this is the shortest distance the ant could travel.

20. What is 6 centimeters?

21. Sam drew the square in blue on the grid to the left. If each square on the grid is 1 square centimeter, this is the area of the blue square.

22. What is 9 square centimeters?

23. Look at the following groups of numbers. This is the group that has the numbers in order from least to greatest. A.43%, ½, 0.52, ¼, 87% B.¼, 0.52, ½, 87%, 43% C.87%, 0.52, ½, 43%, ¼ D.¼, 43%, ½, 0.52, 87%

24. What is D. ¼, 43%, ½, 0.52, 87%?

25. Sally cut a cake into 8 equal pieces. She gave her mom 2 pieces and her dad 1 piece. This is the percent of the cake she had left.

26. What is 62.5%?

27. A B C D The figure to the left is a square. Julie put her finger on Point A. She moved her finger from Point A to Point B to Point C to Point D. This is the percentage of the way she went around the figure.

28. What is 75% of the way around the figure?

29. Look at the drawing above. This is the percentage of boxes that have a shape in them.

30. What is 33 1/3 %?

31. Tony made a plate of cookies. One fourth of the cookies were chocolate chip, 0.6 of the cookies were peanut butter, and the rest of the cookies were oatmeal. This is the percent of the cookies that were oatmeal.

32. What is 15%?

33. Bill measured the length of a piece of wood and said it was 2 ½ feet long. This is the length of the piece of wood in inches.

34. What is 30 inches? Explanation: There are 12 inches in one foot, so there are 24 inches in two feet and 6 inches in a half foot. 24 + 6 = 30

35. Judy made a cake and the recipe said she needed 3 cups of milk. She looked in the refrigerator and saw that she only had 21 ounces of milk. This is how many more ounces of milk she needed.

36. What is 3 ounces? Explanation: There are 8 ounces in a cup, which means there are 24 ounces in 3 cups. Since Judy only has 21 ounces of milk, she needs 3 more ounces.

37. The distance from one end of the line below to the other end is 18 inches. An ant traveled from one end to the other and then went back to where he started. This is how many feet the ant traveled.

38. What is 3 feet?

39. Joy has a goal to exercise at least 4 hours every week. She plans on exercising for 30 minutes every weekday (Monday – Friday). This is how much longer she needs to exercise on Saturday and Sunday combined to reach her goal.

40. What is 90 minutes? Explanation: Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, there are a total of 240 minutes in 4 hours. If Joy exercises 30 minutes each day for 5 days, that is a total of 150 minutes. Subtracting 150 from 240 gives an answer of 90 minutes.

41. Dave went to the store and bought a quart of milk. A recipe he was using said he needed 1 ½ cups of milk. This is how many ounces of milk he had left.

42. What is 20 ounces of milk? Explanation: The quart of milk has 32 ounces. There are 8 ounces in a cup and Dave needs 1 ½ cups or 12 ounces. Subtracting 12 ounces from 32 ounces give an answer of 20 ounces. Note: Students need to know these conversions!

43. A B C D In the drawing above, these two line segments appear to be perpendicular to each other.

44. What is AC and CD Or BD and CD?

45. x The width of the rectangle above is ‘x’ units. The length of the rectangle is 4 times longer than the width. This expression below is the length of the rectangle. A.x + 4 B.4 + x C.x ÷ 4 D.4x

46. What is D. 4x?

47. Jim went on a trip from Aurora to Florida. It took him 3 days to travel there. The total distance he traveled was 1,211 miles. Of the choices below, this is about how many miles he averaged each day. A)400 miles B)500 miles C)1200 miles D)3,600 miles

48. What is A. 400 miles?

49. Emily decided to sell a lot of her old books at a garage sale. She sold 30 books for $2 each and 10 books for $1.50 each. This is how much money she got for all the books she sold.

50. What is $75?

51. The width of the rectangle below is x inches. The length of the rectangle is x + 5 inches. Of the following expressions, this one could be used to find the perimeter of the figure. A.x + x + 5C. x (x + 5) B.x + 5D. x + x + 5 + x + x +5 x x + 5

52. What is D. x + x + 5 + x + x + 5?