Welcome Grade 6's of Victor Lauriston

This site is intended to support our math program at school. It will contain lessons, and daily questions to practise at home. There should be a nice balance of drilled and problem solving mathematics.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Eqao part 3 ( 7 more to come )

Easy:

1) 5x_= 30
5x_x_=90

2)Andy was 32 gumballs in a bag and he takes 8 without looking. The ones he took out 3 blue 2 red 4 yellow.From the gumballs Andy took out, Predict how many of each color are there in total.

Medium:

3) A school needs 9600 pencils. The prices for pencils in 3 stores are showed below.

Store A sells 12 pencils for 10.14
Store B sells 8 pencils for 19.45
Store C sells 4 pencils for 25.69

The schools wants to be 9600 pencils from the store that sells 9600 for the lowest price. Which store sells 9600 at the lowest cost?

Friday, February 19, 2010

Test yourself with EQao part 2( 8 more parts coming)

Medium:


Hard:
3)Daniel makes a train that is made of 19 blocks. The train is made out of cubes and they are linked together .
Each cube is 3 cm x 3cm x 3cm.Daniel wants to paint it blue . For every 6cm it costs $1.25 .
How much money does he need to paint the whole train?

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Test yourself with EQAO part 1(9 more parts coming)

Easy:
You will need some grid paper.
Construct a parallelogram on a piece of grid paper that meets the following conditions.
1. 2 obtuse angles
2. 2 acute angles

Medium:
You will need some grid paper.
Construct a hexagon on a piece of grid paper that meets the following conditions.
1. 6 obtuse angles
2. 4 side lengths of 8cm
3. the other 2 lengths cannot be 8cm

Hard:
You will need some grid paper.
Construct a octagon on a piece of grid paper that meets the following conditions.
1.8 obtuse angles
2. 4 sides with side lengths of 9
3.2 with a side lengths of 7

Monday, February 1, 2010

Adding and Subtracting Decimal Numbers Lesson 5 Chapter 4

Note: Use the chart I have made that is on the left
Easy)
1) Andy , Raymond and Mr. Graham are going camping for fun after our hard work. Mr. Graham gives Raymond and Andy 20 bucks each to spend to get stuff for the trip.

1) Andy buys 2 tacos and a pack of cookies. How much change will he have left?If he has enough change pick another item for him to buy. Show your work.
2) Raymond buys 3 cokes, 2 bags of chips and a taco . How much change will he have left? If he has enough change pick another item for him to buy. Show your work.

3) Mr graham buys 3 tacos and 5 bags of chips. How much money will he need?Show your work.


Medium:
4)If Andy and Raymond do not use their change how much more money will they need to buy 1 of everything ?

5)How much more money would they need by using:
a)

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c)

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d)

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e)

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Hard:
6)Andy used some an extra 110 dollars and buys 2 of everything on the chart. How much change will he have lefted?


Done by Andy.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Subtracing Whole Numbers Lesson 4 Chapter 4

' Note: Don't mind the lines i just need them to put the numbers in place.

1) Bob reserched the number of people who like tacos in canada and those who dislike eating tacos.
Year____________ ___1997 ___ 2005
# of people who like tacos ___9390 ___10900
# of people who dislike tacos _3922 ____4758

1a) In 1997 , how many people in canada liked tacos more then dislike tacos?
1b) In 2005 , how many people in canada liked tacos other then dislike tacos?
1c) Did you use mental math, pencil and paper or a calculator to calculate? Jusitfy your choice.
1d)Use addition or esimation to determine if your answers are reasonable. Show your work?

2) Calculate. Determine if your anwsers are reasonable . Show your work.
A) 5300 - 2679 = C) 96230 - 9235 =
B) 9500 - 5986= D) - 6969 = 60000

3)Mr graham was looking at all the players who tried to play in the world cup . There were 8000 people who tried. 925 players made it into the world cup . How many players didn't making it into the world cup?

Medium:
4)In the 2004 Paralympics there were 5000 athletes. In the 2000 Paralympics there were 4267 atletes. Estimate and calculate how many more athletes were in the 2004 Paralympics then in the 2000 Paralympics .

5) Create 3 problems involving the subtraction of two multi-digit numbers. Solve your problems.

Hard:
6a) Write down 2 four-digit whole numbers with four different digits. Rearrange the digits to make the greaest and the least four-digit whole numbers.
b)Subtract the 2 lowest number from the 2 greatest number. Estimate to check your answer.
c) Use your 2 answers from part b) to make the greast and least numbers. Repeat theses steps until you start to get the same number each time.
d) Subtract your final number from part c) to 10000.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Adding Whole Numbers Chapter 4 Lesson 3

Easy:
1)Answer the following questions without a calculator:
a)154+146
b)987+123

Medium:
2)Three kids collect baseball cards. Raymond has 359 baseball cards, Andy has 223 baseball card and Taylor has 129 baseball cards.
a)How many baseball cards does everyone have all together?

Hard:
3) To raise money to help Haiti from the earthquake , Mr.Graham sold trapezoid cookies in a vending machine. The machines takes only dimes. There had been 10 machinesholding 500,320, 530,960,120,350,990,190,290 and 570 cookies.
5a)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Estimating Sums and Differences Chapter 4 lesson 2

When you are estimating when you round when its on the half way point or more its rounds up and if its lower then half it rounds done.
eg.) 5 gets rounded up to 10.
Hard:

5)Raymond is making a chart but needs to know all the totals .

Age:

0-4 : 3512
5-14 : 5823
15-19 : 2242
20-24 : 4929
25+ : 19123

5a) About how many people in 5-14 and 15-19 together?
5b) About how many people more is 25+ then 0-4?
5c) About how many people are there in total?

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers Chapter 4 lesson 1

Frequency:The number of times an event occurs.

Easy:
1) Qi does the experiment again and got 444 'one head, one tail' in 1 000 tosses. Use mental math to find 3 possible frequencies for 'both head' and 'both tail'.Show your strategys.

2) Qi does another experiment and the frequency that he got 274 'one head, one tail' in 1000 tosses. Find 3 possible frequencies for 'both head' and 'both tail'.

Medium:
3) Andy flips a coin 2000 times and got heads 1512 times. How many times did he flip tails? Show your work.

4) Raymond tosses a coin 5000 times and he flipped 660 heads. How many times did he flip tails? Show your work.

Hard:
5) Choose a number of tosses than 10000. What might be the frequency of each outcome be? Show your strategy.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Area Rule for Triangles Chapter 8 lesson 4

Height: in a parallelogram, the height is the distance between one side of a parallelogram and the opposite side. It is measured along a line that is perpendicular to the base.
Base:The line at the bottom of a 2-D shape.
Scalene Triangle: A triangle that has no side lengths the same.
Isoscele Triangle:A triangle that has 2 sides lengths the same and 1 not.

Area Rule for Parallelograms Chapter 8 Lesson 2

Height: in a parallelogram, the height is the distance between one side of a parallelogram and the opposite side. It is measured along a line that is perpendicular to the base.
Base:The line at the bottom of a 2-D shape.
Perpendicular: The right angle in the shape. Note: the right angle may not be in at the corners.

Easy:
1)Draw 5 parallelograms and do the area of them all. All must have different areas
2)The height of a parallelogram is 4cm and the base is 9cm. What is the area of the parallelogram.

Medium:
3)Draw 2 parallelograms on grid paper with an area of 81cm. Label the length of the base and height of both
4)Draw 1 parallelogram that has an area over 72cm

Hard: Note this may be abit too hard
5) A flower keep is making flowers pictures out of parallelogram looking leafs.He is doing this 20 times. To make 1 flower he needs 4 green leafs and 8 red leafs.
The green leaf base is 4cm and the height is 9cm.What is the area of all of green leaf he will be using? Show your work.
The red leaf base is 9cm and the height is 7cm.What is the area of all of pink leaf he will be using? Show your work

Open Response:

Ms. Tite quilts a table cloth for her parallogram shaped table. She needs to figure out how much material she will need to buy. She measures the table with a ruler giving the following numbers. The base is 48cm and the height is 1.3m. How much material does she need to use?

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Unit Relationships Chapter 8 lesson 1

Area for a square and rectangle is length x width= area
Area for a triangle is length x width divide by 2 = area of triangle

Easy:
1) Make a rectangle with an area of 45cm.
2)Make a square with 16cm.

Midde:
3) Make a square that has the area of 169cm
4)Make a rectangle that has the area of 72cm

Hard:
5)Andy ate a huge taco that was 14cm by 9cm and he ate 120cm of it. How much is left?
6)Raymond is painting the floor of a building that is 7cm by 13cm and he paints 6cm of it. How much does he have left to paint?

Monday, January 11, 2010

Time

Here are some questions for you to try:
Easy:

1) Make a clock that shows 6:04
2) Make a clock that shows 12:35

Medium:

3) What is the difference between 6:45 am and 8:30 pm?
4) What is the difference between 14:06 pm and 00:00 am?

Hard:

5) Calculate the differents in the 2 times

A) 4:05am to 22:59pm
B) 22:46pm to 7:52am
c)21:22pm to 00:00am
D)1:11am to 13:11 pm

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Chapter 5 lesson 5 Exploring Perimeter

Here are some questions for you to try. From Easy to Hard.
1)Draw 2 rectangles with a perimeter of 20cm.
2)Make a square that has a perimeter 40cm.
3)Make a polygon that has a perimeter of 35cm.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Chapter 5 lesson 3 - Perimeters of Polygons

Perimeter is the distance around the shape. For eg. If 1 side of a square is 15cm since a square has all of same sides the perimeter of the square is 60cm(15 + 15 + 15+ 15 = 60cm).


Here are some questions for you to try. From Easy to Hard.

Easy:
1)What is the perimeter of an isosceles triangle if one side is 5cm and the base is 2cm?
A)12cm
B)7cm
C)9cm
D)15cm

2)What is the perimeter of a square if 1 side is 4cm?
A)12cm
B)8cm
C)16cm
D)4cm

Middle:
3)What is the perimeter of a triangle that has a side length of 5m

4) What is the perimeter of a rectangle that has side length of 4m and 9m



Hard:
5)What is the perimeter of a hexagon with 1.5cm sides?
A)9cm
B)6cm
C)4cm
D)3cm

Monday, January 4, 2010

Chapter 5 lesson 2 - Metric Relationships

Metric Relationships Chapter 5 lesson 2 Jan. 04/10
10mm=1cm For eg. 10mm on a ruler is 1cm.
100cm=1m For eg. 100cm on a meter stick is 1m.
1000mm=1m For eg. The width of 1000 pins is 1m.
1000m=1km For eg. The length from Taco Bell to Superstore is 1km.

Here are some questions for you to try. From easy to hard.
Easy:
1)Which one is 3.5m?
A)350cm
B)35km
C)35000mm
D)3.5 km

Middle:
2)Turn the current measurements into CM
A)1.3m
B)25 m
C)100mm
D) 3.5 km

3)Turn the current measurements into M
A)10 000cm
B)10 000 mm
C)23km

Hard:
4)What is the perimeter of a parallelogram if 1 side of it is 10cm and the other is 5cm?
A)15cm
B)25cm
C)30cm
D)40cm
Hint:
(a parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides)

5)Which is not 5km?
A)5000m
B)50 000cm
C)500 000mm

Chapter 5 Measurement

Items covered will:
Choosing, using and renaming metric lengths
Measuring Perimeters
Using diagrams and graphs