2nd Grade Problem of Day

Set #4

Rita wants to make Kool-Aid for her friends. To make one container of

Kool-Aid, it takes a pitcher of water, 2 cups of sugar and 2 packages of mix.

• Rita has 24 girls coming over for a Blue Bird meeting, so she will need two pitchers of Kool Aid. What will Rita need to make two pitchers of Kool-Aid? (Make a list in your journal!)

Child’s Name Guess

Betty 113

Sue 125

Lee 62

Mike 97

M&M Guessing Game

List the M&M guesses from the greatest to the least!

________ ________ _________ ________

Kristen called her grandmother on February 5th to see if she

would come for a visit. Her grandmother said she

would be coming in two weeks.

•There are _____ days in one week.•There are _____ days in two weeks.•Kristen’s grandmother would be

coming to visit on February ______.

Air Heads cost 5 cents a piece. You have 4

dimes.

How many Air Heads can you buy with 4

dimes?How many could you

buy with 6 dimes?

Count by 2s. Start with the

first even number after

30.__________, ___________,

__________, ___________,

__________, ___________,

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Ms. Jones puts her students in pairs to do a math

activity. Every child has a partner.

• Which of the following number of students does Ms. Jones have in her class? _____ 15 17 18 21 23 27 31• Does Ms. Jones have an even or odd

number of students in her class? _____

Write the number to the following underlined

words. • Jane has four hundred thirty

stamps in her collection. _____•Luke has fourteen cousins.

______•Madeline needs forty-two

dollars for her WII game. _______•Landry wants twelve cubes to

build a tower.

Adam has 12 doves. He wants to separate them

so they are evenly divided into cages.

How many will be in two cages?

How many will be in three cages?

How many would be in four cages?

Kenneth’s mom tells him he can bring any two games on

vacation. He has the following games.

• List all the possible combinations of games which Kenneth can choose. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Certain or impossible?•The dog will need water to live.•Humans can fly like birds.• If you stand in the rain without an

umbrella, then you will get wet.•You will have two birthdays this

year.•You will pull out a yellow marble

from a bag filled with blue and red marbles.

KADA Cola recycles aluminum cans. The cans are fed into a

machine that flattens them into packs of ten cans each.

• If 30 cans are fed, how many packs come out?• If 48 cans are fed, how many packs come out?• If 56 cans are fed, how many packs come out?• Are there any cans left over? ___ How many?• What is two cans more than 48? _______

2 suckers cost a quarter.

a. How many quarters would it take to buy 6 suckers?

b. 6 suckers would cost ____________ cents.

c. What if you didn’t have quarters? How else could you pay for the 6 suckers?

•How many sides does this figure have? ______

•Draw a figure that has more sides than this one! Count the sides on your figure!

There are 26 boots on the floor of the West Baton

Rouge Fire Station.•Is there an even or odd number of boots in the fire station? ______________

•How many firefighters would you need to fill all of the boots? _____________

Darius bought a candy bar for 83 cents. He had just

enough coins in his pocket to pay for the candy bar.Two of his coins were

quarters. Draw and label all the other coins to see which coins he had in his pocket!

Hannah reads 63 pages in her book.

She has only 4 more pages to read.

______ is 4 pages more than 63 pages.

Steven has 78 points in the game. On his next turn, he

loses 3 points. _____ is 3 points less than 78

points.

Ms. Green gives a math test. She uses tally marks to show the math

grades to her class.• Students making As I I I I

• Students making Bs I I I I I I I I• Students making Cs I I I I

How many children made As? ______How many papers were graded? ______One half of the class made __________.

At school today, they sold donuts. The teachers are selling donuts

2 for a quarter.

a. How much would 4 donuts cost? ______

b. If Colby has 75 cents, he could buy _____ donuts.

Lyn takes a quarter, a dime, and a penny out of her pocket. She places them in a line on her desk. List all of the different ways she can line up her

coins.

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The Gomez family spent two weeks at the beach.

a. How many days are in one week? _____

b. Write a number sentence showing how many days there are in two weeks.

c. How many days did the family stay at the beach? ____________________