Principal Larry Davis emphasizes the importance of math by making Morning Math part of his school's morning routine. Two days a week during morning announcements, he poses "Mr. Davis Math Questions" to the students at Doctors Inlet Elementary School in Middleburg, Florida. Now, you can do the same in your school! Each week, Davis and Education World present two new sets of math questions for you to use to engage students and build math skills.
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Replace Mr. Davis's name with your name in each of the math questions below...
Question Group 53
- Kindergarten: Mr. Davis ate 5 hot dogs and 4 hamburgers. How many hot dogs and hamburgers did he eat in all? (9 hot dogs and hamburgers)
- Grade 1: Mr. Davis read 6 books in July. He read twice as many books in August. How many books did he read in August? (12 books)
- Grade 2: Mr. Davis bought a ticket at Disney World for $20. How much would it cost him to buy 5 tickets? ($100)
- Grade 3: Mr. Davis saw 128 people on the plane. If 84 of those people were women, how many men were on the plane? (44 men)
- Grade 4: Mr. Davis drove his car 70 miles in 2 hours. How many miles per hour did his car average on that trip? (35 miles per hour)
- Grade 5: Mr. Davis counted 2,224 ants on Monday. He counted twice as many ants on Tuesday. What is the total number of ants he saw on both days? (6,672 ants)
- Grade 6: Mr. Davis caught 12 pounds of fish. How many ounces of fish did he catch? (192 ounces)
Question Group 54
- Kindergarten: Mr. Davis drank 3 quarts of milk on Monday. He drank 5 quarts of milk on Tuesday. How many quarts of milk did he drink in all? (8 quarts of milk)
- Grade 1: Mr. Davis's dog weighs 20 pounds. His cat weighs 13 pounds. How much more does Mr. Davis's dog weigh? (7 pounds)
- Grade 2: Mr. Davis had a baseball bat that was 20 inches long. He had a second bat that was 23 inches long. How much longer was the second bat? (3 inches longer)
- Grade 3: Mr. Davis ran 99 feet. How many yards did he run? (33 yards)
- Grade 4: Mr. Davis had 20 quarts of milk. How many gallons of milk did he have? (5 gallons)
- Grade 5: Mr. Davis drank 64 pints of water. How many gallons of water did he drink? (8 gallons)
- Grade 6: Mr. Davis drank 192 ounces of juice. How many gallons of juice did he drink? (1- gallons)