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Set up and solve each of these like you have learned using a proportion. You must show all work to receive full credit.

1. Stephanie got a travel pack of 4 aspirin, each 500 milligrams. How many total grams are in the pack?

2. While doing a report on snails, Kay learned that the average snail moves about 0.013 meter per second. How many centimeters per second does a snail move?

3. The Wildcats’ water cooler holds 15.3 liters of sports drink. How many milliliters is that?

4. A box of specialty baking flour holds 1.8 kilograms. How many angel food cakes can be made with a recipe that calls for 100 grams of flour?

5. Sumo wrestlers weigh a minimum of 70 kilograms. How many grams is that?

6. Joey walks 4.2 kilometers to soccer practice. How many meters does he walk?

7. Each week Mrs. Lopez has six 946-milliliter bottles of milk delivered to her home. How many liters is each bottle?

8. Beth’s class is studying earthquakes. They learned that the Pacific plate, a huge section of the Earth’s crust, moves 45 millimeters per year. How many centimeters per year is that?

1. Toni left at 6:45 A.M. to go surfing. She got home 7 hours and 26 minutes later. What time did she get home?
2. Javier got to his job at 4:28 P.M. How much time was he at work if he left at 8:05 P.M.?
3. James started doing his homework at 10:35 A.M. and stopped at 1:17 P.M.What was the total time he spent on homework?
4. Malina volunteered to help plant trees in the Fall Creek Falls State Park. She planted trees from 8:15 A.M. until 11:30 A.M.., ate lunch, and then planted more trees from 12:20 P.M.. until 2:45 P.M. How much time did she spend planting trees?
5. Kara went for a hike. She returned back to camp at 10:35 am. If she left at 8:45 am., how long was she gone?
6. Sean and his friends watched a movie they rented from the video store. They started watching the movie at 10:25 pm. When the movie was over, it was 12:12 am. How long did the movie last?
7. Jan clocks in and out every day she works at the candy factory. Today she clocked in at 7:52 a.m. and clocked out at 3:04 p.m. What was the total time she was at the candy factory?
8. Ellen left for the game at 5:15. She arrived 49 minutes later. What time did she arrive?
9. The game started at 3:30 and ended at 5:05. How long did the game last?
10. Jeremy’s birthday party started at 2:30. It ended 2 hours and 45 minutes later. What time did the party end?

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Decimals: Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

1. It rained all day on Mother’s Day and the temperature dropped thirteen and eight tenths degrees. The next day the rain stopped and the temperature rose eight and eight tenths degrees. If the temperature at the beginning of Mother’s Day was sixty-eight and eight tenths degrees, what was the temperature at the end of the day after Mother’s Day?

2. Jennifer, Lauren, Alexandra, and Alexis are going roller skating. Jennifer is ten years old, Lauren is thirteen, Alexandra is five, and Alexis is seven. If admission is $3.65 for anyone ten years or older and $1.15 for anyone younger than ten, how much will the admission be for all four girls?

3. The students at Maryville High School were challenged to join the Great American Smokeout. One-sixth of the students signed a pledge saying they would not smoke on November 20. Half of the students promised to talk to someone who smoked about the dangers of smoking. The rest of the students didn’t participate. There are one thousand, two hundred ninety-one students at MHS. How many of the students didn’t participate in the Great American Smokeout?

4. We bought some grapes from a fruit stand along the side of the road. We paid $3.80 for the purple grapes and $1.82 for the white grapes. How much money did we spend on grapes?

5. Madison and Sydney are sisters. They saved their money and bought a cockatiel for $42. The cage cost $22.95. The perches, bird toys, and food and water dishes cost $13.41. The food for the cockatiel cost $1.41. How much money did they spend in all?

Decimals: Multiplication and Division Word Problems

6. Megan likes to read so that she can improve her vocabulary. Last week, she read one and a half hours per day. How many minutes did she read in all?

7. Mackenzie’s father has been working at Mountain Springs Manufacturing for five years. Last week his hourly salary was raised from $15.20 per hour to $17.29 per hour. If he works forty-two hours per week, how much more will he make each week?

8. Jim and his 7 friends work together raking leaves in their community. At the end of the day, they had a total of $160. If they split the money evenly, how much would each person receive

9. Sean’s father took Sean and three of his friends to the Mountain Springs Dairy Bar for chocolate milkshakes. Milkshakes cost $1.86 each. Sean’s father bought four milkshakes. How much did Sean’s dad spend?

10. Students in Mrs. Romita’s science class weigh a paper back book. The scale read 4.5 ounces. If the book has 225 pages, how much does each individual page weigh?

There were so many wonderful questions that you gave me but I have assembled the most frequent and relevant below. If you have a question that isn’t answered here, you are free to ask me personally at some point when there is time.

1. What will we be learning this year?

6th grade math will have much of what you learned in 5th grade but move a little deeper and emphasize algebra a great deal more. I am providing you with a copy of the math standards on the back of this sheet so you’ll know exactly what you will need to know for the 6th grade TCAP.

2. Will we have a lot of homework?

No. You will have an occasional assignment and a few projects, but we will do most of our work in class.

3. How will you teach us?

I will try to teach you the way you learn. We will use the computers and the Palms and play different games and take quizzes using the clickers. I think my class is fun and I hope you will agree.

4. If I’m not understanding something, can I get extra help or tutoring?

There will be times in class for me to give you extra help and I can pull students in during my planning period. I also will have occasional after school help sessions.

5. Are we allowed to use calculators?

We will use calculators, more specifically, the TI-15; but we will try to learn many things without them but will also do many things with the calculators. You will have the opportunity to purchase your own TI-15 before the TCAP.

6. If I am absent, how do I make up my work or find out what we did in class?

It will be your responsibility to come to me to find out what you missed. If there is extra time during class I can help you and/or I can show you how to access what we did on the computer. My internet home page is http://k12connections.net/links which will be the main links page for our class.

7. Do you like teaching math?

I love teaching math and I love 6th grade. I have a wonderful job!

1. Find the amount of the discount. 20% off $15.95
2. What is the cost of after the discount is applied? 35% off $199.00
3. Find the amount of sales tax. $19.95 with 7% tax
4. What is the cost of the purchase after tax? $34.55 with 6.25% tax
5. What is the final cost after the discount and tax are applied? $89.50, discount of 30% and 8.5% tax.

1. Twenty percent of the students at Fairview Middle School earn straight A’s on their report card. If eighty students receive straight A’s, how many total students attend the the school?
2. Of the fifteen employees of the Star Tech Company, five have Doctorate degrees in astrophysics. What is the percent of employees with the degrees? (round to nearest percent)
3. Mr. Mitchell recently ordered three dozen boxes of Girl Scout cookies. He plans on giving seventy-five percent of the cookies to friends and family. How many boxes of cookies will he be giving away?