Volume 8 Math Stars Worksheet Page 26
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The figure shown on the geoboard
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One of Kawana's assignments is
below has an area of one square unit. Draw
to draw a circle graph to represent how she
a square with area five square units.
spends her time from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on a
school night. Here is her graph:
After School Times
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homework
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phone
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other
TV
chores
2.
A unit fraction is a proper frac-
tion with numerator one. Other proper
fractions can be written as the sum of
Approximately how long does she spend on
unique unit fractions. For example:
homework?
3 = 1 + 1
4
2
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Strategy of the Month
Write each of the following, in as many
ways as possible, as the sum of unique unit
What do you do if you have a problem that
seems to be very complicated? It may have a
fractions:
lot of large numbers, too much information, or
multiple conditions. One approach is to create
a) 5
b) 7
c) 5
a simpler problem like the one you need to
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solve. As you solve the easier problem, you
may see the way to solve the more difficult
one. Or you may discover a different process
that will work with the harder problem. The
trick is to be sure that your simpler problem is
enough like the original one that the patterns
or process you use will help you with the
harder situation. Make a simpler problem
3.
One number is 15 more than another,
first as you solve this: What is the sum of
while their sum is 37. What are the num-
the first 500 counting numbers? i.e., The sum
bers?
of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + . . . + 496 + 497 + 498 +
499 + 500 ? How about only the odds:
1+ 3 + 5 +7 + . . .+ 493 + 495 + 497 + 499 ?
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