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A “conjecture” is an educated guess. I noticed something when I divided a whole number and a fraction so I’m making a “conjecture”. Your job is to see if my conjecture is always true, sometimes true, or never true. You will do this by checking my work and then positing your own 3 examples. If you cannot find an example that […]

Your heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood through its chambers every 60 seconds. A swimming pool (20ft x 60ft) will hold about 65,000 gallons of water. How many weeks would it take your heart to pump that much blood? You can find a conversion table HERE!

A canoe rental store on Lake Louis, Canada has 30 canoes that it rents on a daily basis during the summer season. If canoes rent for $15 per day, how much can the store collect for canoe rentals during the month of July?

  In Reno, Netflix earned $5,393.25 in subscriptions during July. January subscriptions are expected to double that amount. If a Netflix subscription is $7.99, how many subscriptions are expected in January? Remember that you will need to SHOW and EXPLAIN how you solved your problem. DO NOT just type an answer in!!

Image by Cool Text: Free Graphics Generator – Edit Image Welcome to Clayton Pre-AP Academy!  You are among a fortunate group of students who have the privilege of attending THE BEST middle school in all of Washoe County School District! Welcome to 7th grade math! I am excited to get to know you! 🙂 Our math […]

Have an AMAZING summer break! I look forward to seeing each and every one of you at school next year. 🙂         

  What is the smallest three digit palindrome that is divisible by 18? Explain how you found your answer.

This week you will visit the Get the Math website and discover how math is used in the fashion industry. The link below will start you at the Introduction to this activity. After you watch the introduction, follow the links to the right of the video to Take the Challenge, See how the teams solved the […]

For Mother’s Day you gave your mom 1 rose, 1 daisy, 1 lily, and 1 carnation one flower at a time. How many different ways can you hand those flowers to your mom? Explain how you came up with your solution!

Can you find 4 consecutive prime numbers that add up to 220?

  It takes a lot of work to keep Disneyland’s two parks looking top notch. Some of that work is making sure that all the equipment is freshly painted and looking its best. When it comes time to paint the Ferris Wheel, Disneyland maintenance crews need to use a little math to get the job done. The […]

It was Easter in Easter village and all the Easter bunnies are joyful. The annual Easter egg hunt was just finished. The Easter egg hunt is where four Easter bunnies search for any of the four colored eggs and then cross the finish line. Can you figure out which Easter bunny found which egg and […]

Recently on Facebook the math problem below has been bouncing around.    It has been very interesting to see the different comments and see the passion behind the answers given. The debate is heated and each person believes that they are correct and waste no time in defending their reasoning and every defense has to […]