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Identifying the mathematics that is all around
9.
A wooden cube, with a side four
you can be lots of fun. Think about the geom-
inches long, is painted red and then cut into
etry and spatial visualization you use in playing
one inch cubes. How many one inch cubes
video games or when you play golf or basket-
ball. When your parents parallel park, they are
will have:
using their spatial skills too. When you track a
hurricane, you use coordinates. When you
a) three red faces?
_______
check the stock market or read the latest sports
statistics, you are using mathematics. With your
b) exactly one red face?
_______
family or friends go on a math scavenger hunt.
Who can identify mathematics is the most
unusual places?
c) no red faces?
_______
6.
Campers at Camp Crafty made
three legged stools and four legged stools
in arts and crafts class. They used a total of
106 legs to make 31 stools. How many of
each did they make?
_________
7.
What are the next four letters in this
pattern?
10.
Andi, John, Rhonda, Kay and
Tommie collect coins. Andi has 1/3 as
O, T, T, F, F, S, S, ___, ___, ___, ___, . . .
many coins as John and twice as many as
Rhonda. Kay has 15 fewer than Rhonda.
Tommie and Kay each have 25 coins. How
many coins do the others have?
8.
A class of 28 students stood in a
Andi _____ John ______ Rhonda _____
circle and counted off by ones. The mul-
tiples of four sat down. The remaining
students counted by ones again and this
Setting Personal Goals
time multiples of three sat down. Those
Students who recognize the value of math-
still standing again counted by ones and
ematics are well on their way to becoming
the multiples of two took a seat. When this
mathematically powerful citizens. Valuing
third count off was completed, how many
mathematics means that we appreciate the
richness, power, and usefulness of math-
students were sitting?
ematics. Without math there would be no
_______
roads or bridges, computers or movies,
banks or fast food restaurants. How can you
become mathematically powerful?

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