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(1) Road Trip Beth lives in Rhode Island. She has to visit someone in Connecticut. On Monday she drives 30.4 miles. On Tuesday she drives 20.3 miles. How many miles did it take Beth to get there? |
by Hannah, age 10, grade 4 Great Place to Learn Miss Baillargeon's class Swansea, Massachusetts, U.S. July 25, 2002 |
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(2) The Finger Problem If there are 13 children, how many fingers altogether? |
by Benjamin, age 9, grade 3 Parklands College Mrs. Severin's class Cape Town, South Africa August 1, 2002 |
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(3) The Foot Problem There are 11 children. How many toes? |
by Mitchell, age 9, grade 3 Parklands College Mrs. Severin's class Cape Town, South Africa August 1, 2002 |
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(4) Stones Hi, I'm Michael. I have 96 stones and I lose half of them. How many do I have? |
by Michael, age 9, grade 3 Parklands College Mrs. Severin's class Cape Town, South Africa August 1, 2002 |
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(5) Running Wanda runs 12 km in 2 hours for 6 days of the week. How far did she run altogether? |
by Amelia, age 10, grade 3 Parklands College Mrs. Severin's class Cape Town, South Africa August 1, 2002 |
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(6) Dogs and Cats If there were 12 cats and 5 dogs how many legs are there all together? |
by Summer, age 10, grade 4 August 1, 2002 |
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(7) Coins Dan has five quarters and ten dimes. How much money does he have? |
by Nitin, age 10, grade 4 Oakridge Elementary School Ms Partovi's class Arlington, Virginia, U.S. August 5, 2002 |
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(8) Watch It! There were 2 tennis games. Each game had 2 balls. The coach had 7. Her mum had 2 in her pocket. There were 2 tennis ball tins that held 6 tennis balls each. One was only 2/3 full; the other was 1/3 full. How many tennis balls were there all together? |
by Frances, age 9, grade 3 Heidelberg Primary School Mr. Jackson's class Victoria, Australia August 13, 2002 |
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(9) What's My Birthday? My birth month is 12 - 4. My birthdate is less than 20th but more than 10. It can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. What is my birthday? |
by HuiTing, YiFang, ShuFeng and Peiyi, age 11, grade 5 Poi Ching School Mdm. Siti's class Singapore August 13, 2002 |
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