COOPER WEEKLY MATH 
for the week of February 3rd, 2003

Kindergarten- 3 butterflies landed on a flower. 2 more butterflies join them. How many butterflies?

First Grade – You have a square, a triangle, a trapezoid, a rectangle, and a circle. Choose two shapes and describe how they are alike and how they are different.

Second Grade – You are teaching a first grader how to add two, 2-digit numbers together. Explain in detail what you would say to the first grader.

Third Grade – Anna is selling Girl Scout Cookies for her troop. Her troop has a goal of selling $1,000 in cookies. Explain mathematically what Anna needs to do to figure out how much of her troop’s $1,000 goal she should raise. Answer: Students should explain that Anna would need to know how many girls are in her troop so she could divide (or similar method) $1,000 by # of girls in the troop to figure out how much Anna should raise.

Fourth Grade – Tim bought 6 CDs and 3 DVDs for $200. The DVDs cost $30 each. The CDs all cost the same amount. Describe in detail how Tim could find out how much the CDs costs. Answer: Student answer should explain in detail how Tim would multiply the 3 DVD’s times $30 to find out how much was spent on DVDs altogether. Then, he would subtract that amount from the $200 spent to find the amount spent on the 6 CDS.

Fifth Grade – Given a trapezoid, triangle, square, rhombus, and parallelogram, describe how all of the polygons are alike and how they are all different.

Sixth Grade – Tracy is planning her homework and basketball practice schedule for Thursday night. Describe in detail what information Tracy needs to plan her homework/basketball practice schedule for Thursday night. Answer: Students need to include the information she must know in order to plan her schedule is 1) How long basketball practice will take (time) 2) How many subjects she has homework for or how much homework she has all together 3) How long the homework will take for each subject or all together (time)