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An anagram is a word or phrase made by changing the letter order fromanother word or phrase. Here are two math-related anagrams. The first one is solved for you. See if you can solve the second one.

A decimal point

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National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

-Count with understanding and recognize how many objects a set contains

-Understand various meanings of addition and subtraction of whole numbers and therelationship between the two operations

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Written by Debby Carroll

Edited by Ken Bookman

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Math in the News

You probably know that you can learn a lot by reading the newspaper. You can learn about what’s going on in the world and about things youcan do for fun. But did you know that you could also use your newspaper to learn math? You can. The newspaper is filled with lots of numbersand math concepts. You can learn math from all parts of the newspaper. That’s what this special newspaper section is all about – learning mathusing the everyday information in your newspaper. In it, you will see how you can learn math from different parts of the newspaper. You’ll alsosee the national math standards that you will learn as you do the activities. Then you can be a real math star in the news!

Extra, extra, read all about it – math makes news! And news makes math!

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Bonus: Choose a word or phrasefrom a newspaper headline andcreate an anagram from it.

T h e Head l i n e Hun t

You can start practicing your math skills by using the headlines.

First, find a big word in a headline that has an even number of letters and write it on this line.

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Then, find a big headline word with an odd number of letters and write it on this line.

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Choose a small word from a headline and give it one point for each consonantand two points for each vowel. How manypoints is your word worth? Write the word and the points in this box and showhow you figured out the point value.

Write your first and last name on theselines and tell whether each has an evenor an odd number of letters. Figure outhow many points your name is worth.

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Then do the same for a big headlineword and write the word, the points, and the equation you used in this box.

S p o o n s o f I r o n Explorers Lewis and Clark headed west across theUnited States. They were on a mission for President Thomas Jefferson, who wanted to find aroute to the Pacific Ocean and to expand America. It was 1803, and if you had read a newspa-per at the time, you probably would have learned that the explorers had to take all the sup-plies they would need because there would not be stores in which they could shop as theytraveled. Imagine that they took 32 iron spoons with them for cooking and eating. The spoons came packed 8 in a carton. How many cartons did they load into the wagon for the journey? In this box, show the equation you used to find the answer. Then find five things in the newspaper that youcould buy to take with you on a long trip. Figure out your total cost.

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B e t s y R o s s S e w s i t U p Ever wonder why the U.S. f lag has five-pointed stars? Supposedly, Betsy Ross’s idea of a five-pointed star won over George Washington’s six-pointedstar because she wowed audiences with her ability to createa five-pointed star by making only one cut into a foldedpiece of paper. Make Betsy Ross’s five-pointed star usingthe steps shown on this website — www.ushistory.org.Then, find a symbol of some kind in the newspaper andwrite a description of its shape and size.

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T i m e F l i e s The current U.S. f lag has 50stars and 13 stripes, but in 1777, the f lag had only 13 starsand 13 stripes. If a star and stripe were added to the 1777flag for every tenth year until the present, how many starsand stripes would there be? Compare your results with thenumber of stars on the current U.S. f lag.

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O n e C o s t l y C a t In February1998, Cindy Jackson of London, England, bought a Bengal cat for $41,435. How long would you have to save your allowance in order to save that amount ofmoney? Suppose every person in your class saved$15 a week? How long would it take the class topurchase the cat? Find a cat for sale in the news-paper. If each person in your class chipped in anequal amount of money, how much wouldeach person have to give to buy the catadvertised in the newspaper?

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National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

-Develop fluency with basic numbercombinations for addition, subtrac-tion, and multiplication

-Propose and justify conclusions and predictions that are based on data; design studies to further investigate the conclusions or predictions

Energy Se l l s

In 1900, Thomas Edison inventedthe nickel-alkaline storage battery. If your MP3 player is powered by 2AA batteries that last for about 20hours of use, how often would youneed to change batteries if you listenfor about 90 minutes each weekdayand 120 minutes each weekend day?Can you find an ad for batteries inthe newspaper? How much will youneed to spend on batteries for yourMP3 player in a year?

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First in Fl ight

Wilbur and Orville Wright built and f lew the first heavier-than-airmachine on December 17, 1903.They traveled 120 feet at 30 milesper hour in their first f light. It lastedonly a few seconds. Find an ad for air travel in the newspaper. What isthe most expensive f light listed andwhere does it start and end? Find out how much per mile that tripwould cost.

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Math News From History

Sports Sense

T h e Game o f t h e C h amps

In January 2005, Super Bowl XXXIX was played.What does that Roman numeral represent? WhatRoman numeral shows your age? What SuperBowl will be played next? Write the answer in a Roman numeral on this line.

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The NASCAR track in Daytona, Fla., is 2.5 mileslong in what’s called a tri-oval shape. Imagine thatyou are racing there. Your heart is pumping fast,adrenaline f lashing through your veins. You drivelike the wind, eight times around that 2.5-miledistance. How far did you drive? How did you findthe answer? Record your thoughts and mathprocesses and compare them to those of the per-son sitting next to you. Write your equation underthe picture of the car.

Take Stock

Find the stock market report. Choose any five stocks and find the closing price and the change from the previous closing price. Tellwhether each made or lost money. Fill in this chart.

Next, find one stock that made a lot of money and showed a big gain.Write the stock abbreviation here.

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If you had bought 100 shares of that stock before the day’s trading and sold it at the end of the day, how much would you have made?

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National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

-Develop and use strategies to estimatethe results of whole-number computationsand to judge the reasonableness of suchresults

-Describe the shape and important features of a set of data and comparerelated data sets, with an emphasis on how the data are distributed

-Represent data using tables, graphs, andcharts such as line plots, bar graphs, andline graphs

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Build Sports -Number Sense

Choose a winning score from the Sportssection. Write as many equations as youcan that give you that number. Use as manyoperations as you wish. Try this activityagain using another score.

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Home Runner s

Baseball great Babe Ruth hit 714 homeruns during his career. Hank Aaron hit755. If each man ran the bases each timehe hit one, and a baseball diamond is 360feet long, how many more feet did Aaronrun than Ruth because of their home runs?

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Find a story in theSports section thatincludes a detail about an amount of time. Write the amount of time, indicating hours and minutes, in this box.

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F o o d P r i c e s Go U p

In a grocery ad, find five items that cost less than $1 each.On 5 small pieces of paper, write the name of each item andits price. Next, arrange the papers from the lowest to thehighest price. What item costs the most money? Which costs the least? Try to find these same items in a grocery ad from another store. Which store has the lowest price for each item?

If your newspaper doesn’t have a Food section, use these five items and label them 1 to 5, from the least expensive tothe most. Then write the name of each item, using the abbre-viation for the measurement.

1 pound apples, $2.69; 8 ounces yogurt, $.75; box of cereal, $4.27; 2 pounds ground beef, $3.50 per pound; 1 quart milk; $.99.

The Lunch Menu

Use several items from the newspaper food ads and put them togeth-er in different combinations to create several different school lunchmenus. If you choose just 5 different items, how many menus can youcreate by putting them together in different combinations?

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Happy B i r t h d ay C ake t o You !

Pretend that you are baking a birthday cake from a recipe you foundin the newspaper’s Food section. The recipe calls for 2 cups of f lour,but you have only a 1/3-cup measuring cup. Write an explanation ofhow you can use the 1/3-cup measure to get 2 cups of f lour.

R e c i p e R a z z l e -D a z z l e

Find a recipe in the newspaper that you think would be a good one to serve at aparty. Adjust the amounts so that you couldmake that recipe to serve 20 people. Writethe new amounts in the box.

National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

–Develop understanding of fractions as parts of unit wholes, as parts of a collection, as locations on number lines,and as divisions of whole numbers

-Develop fluency in adding, subtracting,multiplying, and dividing whole numbers

-Apply and adapt a variety of appropri-ate strategies to solve problems

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Choose a picture from the newspaper. Now cut the paperinto eight pieces of equal size. Take the pieces home andask a family member to put them together. Label each pieceof the puzzle with its fractional part.

E v e n S t e v e n s

Choose a photo from the newspa-per. Fold it in half so that you cansee only the left side. Draw the

right side in a symmetrical pattern.

Photo Fractions

Count the number of photographs inone section of the newspaper. Write the total in the box below the line.

Count the number of photos that showpeople and write that number above the line. When you are finished, you will have a fraction that tells you howmany of the newspaper photos are ofpeople. Count the number of photosthat show animals and write a fraction to show that.

Bonus: Write the total number of newspaperpages in this box below the line. Then go backand count all the pages that have no advertisingon them and write that number above the line.Now you have a fraction; what does the fractionshow? Finish the sentence and fill in the blankto explain your fraction.

This fraction shows the percentage of newspaper

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National Math Standards on These Pages

Students will:

-Identify, compare, and analyze attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes and develop vocabulary to describe the attributes

-Explore congruence and similarity

-Express mathematical relationships using equations

-Understand such attributes as length, area, weight, volume, and sizeof angle and select the appropriate type of unit for measuring eachattribute

-Use models, benchmarks, and equivalent forms to judge the size offractions

-Develop strategies for estimating the perimeters, areas, and volumesof irregular shapes

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Metric Moments

Use a meter stick to measure the width of ten newspaperphotos. Record the width of each one. Find the averagewidth using metric measurements.

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Number C o l l a g e

Working with a partner, choose a number and make a col-lage based on it. For example, if you choose the number 2,you might make a collage of pictures that have 2 items inthem. Find items for your collage in the newspaper. Includeas many pictures, symbols, or words as you can find.

P h o t o - M a t e

Have you ever thought about being a photojournalist? Thatis the person who takes the pictures that are in the newspa-per. There are certainly lots of pictures needed every day somaybe it would be a good job. Look through the first fewpages of the newspaper to check out about how many pho-tos are on each page. Then estimate the number of photosin the entire newspaper. After you guess, then count all ofthe photos to see how well you estimated the total.

Guess My Area

You know that you can find the area of a rectangle by multiplying thelength by the width. The area is then measured in square units. Forexample, if a newspaper photo was four inches high by three incheswide, the area would be 4x3=12 square inches. Using that formula,choose four photos from the newspaper. Estimate the length, widthand area of each one. Then use a ruler to measure exactly and com-pute the area. How close were your estimates? Did you usually esti-mate larger or smaller than the actual measurement? Why do youthink that is so?

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Circle all the numbers on the front page that are greater than 1,000.Draw a box around eachnumber greater than10,000. Underline thelargest number on the front page. Then, skim the entire newspaper to find a number greater than that number and write it in this box in words and numerals.

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Flags of the World

Every country in the world has a f lag with at least one of these six colors – red, green, blue, yellow, white, and black. Use one or more of these colors and squares, triangles, circles or othershapes to make a f lag to represent you. Use crayons to draw yourflag in this box. Under the f lag, write about what the shapes andcolors say about you.

L o c a l B o y s L e n d a H a n d

Three boys volunteer this month at a home for seniorcitizens. They read the newspaper to people who livethere and are unable to see well enough to read. Briangoes every third day, Rashid goes every fourth day, andJohn goes every sixth day. All three friends start volun-teering on the first day of the month. Which two boyswill work together most often? Tell how you came upwith the answer.

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H i s Money o r H i s Ma t h

Last Sunday, Levon Kolsky was walking down Main Street. Out of theshadows stepped a sinister-looking woman who threatened to rob Kolskyunless he could compute 68% of 138. He answered “93.84.” Did she rob him? How did you figure this out? Write your thought processes and equations in this box. Do you think this story is realistic? Why?

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Shapes fill the world around us and can be found evenin the newspaper. Look carefully in the newspaper tofind pictures of shapes. Can you find five different-looking triangles in one newspaper? Can you find apicture of a three-dimensional object that has a circleor square for a side? Who in your class can find a pic-ture of an object with the highest number of sides? Try to find the name of that shape.

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What ’s in a Name?

A decade is 10 years, a century is 100 years, and a millennium is 1,000 years. Investigate how these timeperiods got their names. Decide on a logical name for a period of 10,000 years. Compare your name withnames that your classmates suggest. Then look throughthe newspaper and decide whether you think any of thestories might be one of the most important stories ofthis decade.

T h e U . S . F l a g P a t t e r n

Here is the U.S. f lag. List all the shapes that you see in it. Then, form small groups and discuss the similari-ties and differences between the star and the rectangle.Use this Venn Diagram to organize your thoughts.Then, on another sheet of paper, draw the U.S. f lag so that each row has the same number of stars and stilltotal 50.

L i f e t ime NewspaperRead i n g

Kamato Hongo was the oldest person in the worldwhen she died on Oct. 31, 2003, from pneumonia. Shewas 116. Born in 1887, Hongo was raised on a smallrural island in southern Japan. She attributed her longlife to her optimistic attitude. If she read a newspapereach day of her life, how many issues would you esti-mate that she had read? If you had read one for eachday of your life, how many would you have read? Canyou compute the exact number of newspapers Hongowould have read? If that number is X and the total daysof her life is Y, can you write an equation and computethe total number of newspapers? What piece of infor-mation is missing from this story in order for you toreach the exact number?

National Math Standards on These Pages:

Students will:

-Represent the idea of a variable as an unknown quantity using a letter or a symbol-Investigate how a change in one variable relates to a change in a second variable-Adapt a variety of appropriate strategies tosolve problems-Select appropriate methods and tools for computing with whole numbers from among mental computation, estimation, calculators, and paper and pencil according to the contextand nature of the computation and then use theselected method or tools to solve the problem.

F a c t o r T h i s I n

Work with a partner to play this game. Find a number in the newspaperand give one of its factors. Your partner then has 5 seconds to figure outthe other factor. For example, if you call out “24” & “6,” then your part-ner has five seconds to say “4,” which is the factor of 24 that goes with“6” because 6 x 4 = 24. Take turns finding and calling out a number andits factor.

Art Crit ic

Look at a newspaper photo that includes elements of geometry. Pretendyou are an art critic and write about the geometry that the photo shows.Compare your critique with a friend’s. Did you find the same mathemati-cal elements?

Math MeetsWeather

Weather Wise?

Look out the window and observe the weather.Write in your journal what you see: snow, rain,or clouds? When you get home, share your journal with someone in your family. Together,watch the weather report on the news. Observehow many math words and symbols the weather-person uses. Record these words and symbols inyour journal. Then see how many of those samewords you can find in the newspaper weatherreport.

Where I n t h e Wor l d?

Look at the weather map in the news-paper and choose a place that youwould like to visit because it hasgood weather. What if you had to walk to get there? How longwould it take? Research to findout the number of miles to yourchosen location. Imagine that youwalk a mile in 11 minutes and usethat amount of time to make anestimate.

Once in a Blue Moon

The term blue moon describes the second fullmoon in a calendar month. A full moon occursabout every 29.5 days. Blue moons are uncom-mon and usually occur about every 2.5 years.Check the weather page to find out when thenext full moon happens. Then work with a part-ner to determine the month and the year whenwe will have another blue moon. Check thenewspaper weather page to find other informa-tion about the moon. Write a word problemabout the moon based on what you found.

Sunrise , Sunset

If your newspaper gives you information aboutthe time of sunrise and sunset, usually found on the weather page, figure out exactly howmany hours and minutes of daylight there will be today.

Mean , Me d i a n , Mo de

Choose ten cities listed in the newspaper’sweather information. Write the high temper-ature in each city and then find the mean,median, and mode in your list of tempera-tures.

Math isEntertaining

C l o c k H a n d s

You can use your arms to show times on aclock. When both of your arms are raisedstraight up over your head, it is 12 o’clock.Keep one arm up over your head and movethe other arm to 3 o’clock. Is that arm point-ing straight out from your shoulder? Howshould you position your arms to show 6o’clock? Find the television listings in thenewspaper. With a partner, take turns making body clocks to show the times thatdifferent shows begin. See whether yourfriend can guess the program whose time you are showing.

M o v i e M a n i a

Turn to the newspaper page with the movielistings. Skim the ads and categorize eachmovie into one of these choices – comedy,drama, horror, romance, science fiction.Create a graph showing how many movies are advertised for each category.

F u n , F u n , F u n

Check the Entertainment section to see howmany articles there are about television showsand actors. Count those and write that num-ber in this box. Do you think that is a goodnumber, or should there be more or fewerarticles about TV? Why?

National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

-Use measures of center, focusing on the median, and understand what each does and does not indicate about the data set-Select and apply appropriatestandard units and tools to measure length, area, volume,weight, time, temperature-Express mathematical relationships using equations

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Mat h a t Wo rk

Brainstorm a list of jobs that you think would involve a lotof math. Give examples of how math might be used in eachjob. Now try to list a few jobs that you think would not usemath. Check the Help Wanted ads to see how many of thejobs on your list are there. Which are easier to find – jobsusing math or jobs not using math? Why do you think thatis so?

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M a k i n g t h e M o n e y

Find four ads that tell how much the job pays. Fill in thischart showing what you found.

Bonus: Which job pays the most? Which job pays the least?

The most:

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How Much Each Year?

Find a job that lists the hourly pay. Figure out how muchyou would make each day if you worked an eight-hourday, each week if you worked a five-day week, each monthif you worked 4 1/3 weeks, and each year if you worked52 weeks.

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National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

-Model problem situations with objects and use representations such as graphs, tables, and equations to draw conclusions

-Understand the place-value structure of the base-tennumber system and be able to represent and comparewhole numbers and decimals

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W h i c h C a r A m I ?

Do this activity with a partner. While you are looking at theprices of cars pictured in the Automobile section of the news-paper, make up riddles to test your partner’s place-value know-ledge. Write a riddle about one of the car prices and decide howmany ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands you will use to writeyour riddle. Tell your partner a riddle and give him a chance toguess which car you chose. For example, if your car has a priceof $23,460, your riddle might be, “I have a 6 in the tens placeand I am greater than 20,000. Which car am I?” Write one ofyour riddles on these lines.

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F u rn i t u r e a nd F i n an ce

Look through the newspaper to find an ad for a furniture store.Can you furnish a living room for $1,000 or less? Find pricesfor a couch, a chair, two end tables, and a lamp. List everythingyou might buy, along with the prices, and calculate the sum. Isthe total amount less than your budget of $1,000? When youshop, is it okay to spend more than you can afford? Sketch thefurniture pieces you selected, along with their prices, in thisroom outline.

C a r s A d d U p

Look at the Classified ads for cars in the newspaper. Think of a way to estimate the number of cars advertised. Make an esti-mate. Count the ads. Compare the actual number to your esti-mate. On these lines, write an explanation of how you estimatedthe total.

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Teeny Type

Find a tiny newspaper ad. How tiny is it? Try using color tiles,centimeter cubes, Unifix cubes, or other items to describe itssmall size. What are its length and width? What are its perimeterand area? Who found the smallest ad?

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Students will:

-Understand the place-value structure of the base-ten numbersystem and be able to represent and compare whole numbersand decimals

-Select and use benchmarks to estimate measurements

-Develop and use strategies to estimate computations

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Rewrite these headlines using words like “many,”“few,” “a couple,” etc., instead of the exact numbers.

Example: The story of the Three Little Pigs could be written as A Few Pigs

Headline: Overturned Truck Causes Traffic Jam of Ten Cars

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Find a Classified ad for a used car in the newspaper. In thisbox, write all the numbers in the ad in words. Why do youthink these ads don’t use words for the numbers?

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P e t L o g i c

Check out the Pets for Sale ads in thenewspaper? How many are there altogeth-er? How many are for dogs? Cats? Birds?Hamsters? Others? Draw a line graphshowing the number of ads for each type of pet. Bonus: Write a fraction represent-ing each type of pet ad.

Cat Feet

If you bought all of the cats for sale in thenewspaper and wanted to put booties oneach one, how many booties would youneed altogether? Write a number sentenceshowing how you figured this out.

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National Math Standards on This Page

Students will:

-Use a variety of methods and tools to compute, including objects, mentalcomputation, estimation, paper and pencil, and calculators; represent datausing tables and graphs such as lineplots, bar graphs, and line graphs

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Write a word problem about an everydayexperience that uses a mathematics con-cept you have learned. The problemshould be based on one story in today’snewspaper. Illustrate your story with pictures or diagrams, and write how you would solve your problem.

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Work with a friend to find out which one of you can find the most fractions intoday’s newspaper. Which section con-tained the most fractions? The fewest?

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Find Me in the News

I am a number whose factors (other thanmyself) are prime, and the sum of my digits is 6. Who am I? Begin by talkingwith your class about what a prime num-ber is. Then find a prime number in thenewspaper.

T e n s U p

Enter 1 0 + 1 0 = = = on your calculator.What do you notice each time you press“=”? Push C to clear the display and reen-ter 1 0 + 1 0 = = =. Write each answer ona piece of paper. Guess what the numberwill be the next time you press the equalsign. Use the calculator to see if you areright.

Here are the answers to some of the math problems in this section. Other answers require additional information or are cus-tomized for information provided by students.

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Anagram: Eleven plus two ? twelve plus one. In both cases, the answer is 13.

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Spoons of Iron: 4 cartons.

Time Flies: 35 stars, 35 stripes.

Energy Sells: You would have to change your batteries about every 2 weeks.

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Game of Champs: XL = 40.

Start Your Engines: 8 x 2.5 miles = 20miles.

Home Runners: Ruth’s 714 homeruns would have made him run257,040 feet after hitting them.Aaron’s 755 home runs would havemade him run 271,800 feet. Aaronwould have run 14,760 more feet than Ruth.

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Food Prices Go Up: Least expensive to most –1.8 ounces yogurt, $.75; 2.1 quart milk, $.99;3.1 pound apples, $2.69; 4. box of cereal,$4.27; 5.2 pounds ground beef, $3.50 perpound.

Happy Birthday Cake to You: If you have only a1/3-cup measure and you need 3 cups of f lour,you will need to fill the measure 9 times to meas-ure 3 cups.

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Local Boys Lend a Hand: Answer: Brian and John work together five times in a 30-day month.

His Money or His Math: She did not rob him.

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Lifetime Newspaper Reading: You can’t compute the exact number without knowing her exact birthdate.

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