For Young Mathletes 6 Mental Math a. Example I: 11 = 153 23 = 1 _(2 + 3) _3 Find how many numbers: 1. 1, 2, 3, 25 2. 2, 4, 6, 50 3. 3, 7, 11, 15, 63 4.

10, 15, 20, 65 The middle part has 1 carry over to the next digit. 1. 5. 40, 50, 60, 120 Calculate:

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= 3. 4. 5. b. When multiply by 4, you can double the number twice. For example, 24 x 4 = 48 + 48 = 96 Not much faster, though. 6. 7. 8. 22 9. c. When multiply by 5, you can divide the original number by 2 and then times 10. 10. 11. 12. 74 13. 25 8. What is the midpoint between -6 and 20? Mrs. Lin 7. What is the x on the number line?

= 3. 4. 5.
6. What is x and y on the number line?

More challenging problems: 1. In a class, if one out of 3 students has pets and there are 27 students in that class, how many students do not have pets? 2. John is standing on the middle rung of a ladder washing windows, if he goes up 5 ladders, down 3 ladders and goes up another 9 ladders, hell reach the top. How many rungs does the ladder have? 3. A bacterium in a dish doubles every 2 hours, if there are 3 bacteria at the beginning, how many bacteria will there be after 12 hours? 4. Same as in the previous question. If a bacterium doubles every 2 hours and at the beginning there are 3 bacteria. At the end of n hours, you have 48 bacteria, how many hours have passed? 5. Which is cheaper: 5 oranges for 2 dollars or 3 oranges for 1 dollar? 6. Every time when you sell an orange, you earn 75 cents, how many oranges do you need to sell to earn 24 dollars? 7. If the height of a triangle is 5 and the area of the triangle is 25, what is the base of the triangle? 8. How many faces, edges, vertices in a cube? 9. A341A is divisible by 9, what is A? 10. 3760___ is divisible by both 3 and 8, what is ___? 11. You have ample supplies of above beads. How many ways can you make a necklace that has total 20 pieces of beads? (You cant separate the beads so each time you use the red beads, you use 4 and each time you use the blue beads, you use 2.) 12. S The perimeter of a rectangle is equal to 182 meters. The ratio of its length to its width is 5:2. Find the area of the rectangle

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How many lines of symmetry does a decagon have?

14. Amelias problem (a 5th grader) What time is 45 minutes before 28 hours after midnight? 15. If there are 9 books on a bookshelf, how many ways can you arrange them? (Use a calculator.) Mrs. Lin