Volume 8 Math Stars Worksheet Page 17

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9.
The area of the shaded portion is what
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percent of the area of the entire square?
Remember when you had "Show and Tell" in
kindergarten? Now you have a great deal to
share in mathematics. Talk to the folks at
30 cm
20 cm
home about what you are learning. Show them
your papers and tell them about what is
happening in your math class. Let them see
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that you are doing problems in class similar to
these. Each week choose an assignment that
you are proud of and display it somewhere in
your house.
10 cm
7.
The figure below is a 3 by 3 square.
10.
In South Carolina, auto license
plates consist of three letters followed by
three digits. In North Carolina, a license
plate has three letters followed by four
digits. Any letters or digits can be repeated.
How many more plates are possible in North
Carolina than South Carolina?
a) How many squares are in the figure?
b) How many squares are in an
8 by 8 square?
8.
The perimeter of a rectangle is 60
centimeters. To the nearest tenth of a cm,
what is the length of the shortest possible
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diagonal the rectangle could have?
Mathematics is all around us. We use it every
day in personal living and in all of our school
work. When we read graphs in social studies,
gather and use data in science investigations,
or count in music or physical education, we are
using mathematics. We make connections in
our math classes also; for example, measure-
ment skills help us in solving many geometry
problems and classification skills help us in
organizing data. We use computation in many
different situations. You will become a stonger
mathematics student by making connections.

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