164 Funny MATH Problems for Family Circle of Gifted & Talented

By Mikhail Feldman

Children love to solve my Funny Math Problems because while THINKING – they SMILE! These problems are not the clones of those from boring school textbooks. They are vivid, sometimes peculiar, and therefore unique and inspiring.

If you dream about your talented and gifted child falling in love with Math, then you simply must spend some time solving problems TOGETHER. Do it one-on-one or, which is the best, within your family circle.

Funny Math Problems is the source for family fun, love, and better relationships between grandparents, parents, and your lovely children.
164 multi-step word problems are grouped in 5 chapters:

•BOOK-1: All Operations (grades 1-4),
•BOOK-2: All Operations (grades 1-4),
•BOOK-3: All Operations (grades 4-7),
•BOOK-4: Fractions (grades 4-7),
•BOOK-5: Fractions & Decimals (grades 4-7).

Step-by-step solutions are provided, so you will never get confused and embarrassed in the eyes of your little genius.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mikhail Feldman
• Release date: Feb 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310749674

Mikhail Feldman

For the last 20 years Mikhail Feldman is teaching Physics in NYC public high school.

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164 Funny MATH Problems

for Family Circle of Gifted & Talented

By Mikhail Feldman

Published by Mikhail Feldman at Smashwords

Copyright 2016 Mikhail Feldman

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Book 1: All Operations (grades 1-4)

Book 2: All Operations (grades 1-4)

Book 3: All Operations (grades 4-7)

Book 4: Fractions (grades 4-7)

Book 5: Fractions/Decimals (grades 4-7)

Solutions: Book 1

Solutions: Book 2

Solutions: Book 3

Solutions: Book 4

Solutions: Book 5

INTRODUCTION

Dear Grand- and Just-Parents,

Children love to solve my Funny Problems because while THINKING – they SMILE! These problems are not the clones of those from boring school textbooks. They are vivid, sometimes peculiar, and therefore unique and inspiring.

If you dream about your talented and gifted child falling in love with Math, then you simply must spend some time solving problems TOGETHER. Do it one-on-one or, which is the best, within your family circle.

Funny Math Problems is the source for family fun, love, and better relationships between grandparents, parents, and your lovely children.

164 multi-step word problems are grouped in 5 chapters:

BOOK-1: All Operations (grades 1-4),

BOOK-2: All Operations (grades 1-4),

BOOK-3: All Operations (grades 4-7),

BOOK-4: Fractions (grades 4-7),

BOOK-5: Fractions & Decimals (grades 4-7).

Step-by-step solutions are provided, so you will never get confused and embarrassed in the eyes of your little genius.

Good Luck and Enjoy!

Mikhail Feldman

BOOK 1

1. Pig Peggy is prescribed the rice cakes diet. It takes 5 seconds for Peggy to eat 1 cake. How many rice cakes can Peggy eat during 3 minute breakfast?

2. A small bag fits 3 plastic cups. Nick found that he can place there 5 times more cups if he steps on them to flatten. How many cups should Nick flatten to fill 6 bags?

3. There are 2 double-yolk eggs per each dozen. How many chickens could hatch out of 5 dozens?

4. Each rabbit eats 2 carrots and then takes 1 carrot away from grandmother’s veggies raised bed. How many rabbits visited her backyard last night if grandmother has counted 60 carrots less this morning

5. Melanie has 23 pencils in her box. Her classmate Rick has 6 pencils less. They decided to combine their pencils and donate them to the School Zoo mice family. If Melanie and Rick distribute all pencils by pairs, how many mice will get the pencils?

6. At the hot-dog tournament Lucy ate 8 hot-dogs, and Fred ate just 2 less. Eddy ate exactly the half of Fred and Lucy combined number of eaten hot-dogs. How many hot-dogs have disappeared in three friends’ stomachs in total?

7. On his way to school Garry lost 8 stickers. Kelly found half of lost stickers, but before giving them back to Garry, Kelly also lost half of them. How many stickers were lost altogether?

8. Absentminded Greg loses 1 pair of glasses every month. Therefore, he buys a new pair each month. Every two months he finds 1 previously lost pair of glasses. How many pairs of glasses Greg has at the end of the year?

9. In the circus a magician took $20 bill out of Johnny’s sleeve, $50 bill – out of Jenny’s hat, and $5 bill – out of Greg’s collar. How many times should the magician repeat his trick to collect money enough to buy 3 bikes $100 each?

10. Friends dream of reaching the legal age. Sasha will be 18 in 9 years but Cathy – only in 10. What is the both friends’ current total age?

11. The two-story building has a total of 46 windows. There are 18 windows on the first floor. Second floor has 6 more windows than the first floor. Is there a basement in the building?

12. Store received 27 boxes of tomato and 18 boxes of cucumbers to the store. Checking the content of boxes, the salesman found corn instead of tomatoes in every third box, and corn instead of cucumbers in half of boxes. How many boxes of corn received the store?

13. Ben and Kerry opened the internet Candy Store. On the first day they received 18 orders for red and 10 orders for green loly-pups. On the second day red loly-pup orders went up twice and green loly-pop orders were tripled. How many candies were ordered for two days?

14. Clumsy goose was trampling on the flowers destroying 3 carnations and twice more lilies in 5 minutes. What would be the damage if the gardener will find the goose in half an hour?

15. Parrot lives on the 15th floor, and Dog lives 8 floors higher. What floor is Cat living on if her apartment is 4 floors below Dog’s?

16. Lena is cutting fruits for the salad. 3 oranges, 6 times more strawberries, and 2 apples make 1 serving for 5 people. How many strawberries should Lena cut if she invited 9 hungry friends?

17. There are 11 candles on Peter’s