P – AS – RT4

A group of three students decided to collect items to be recycled. They set a goal that many thought was too high. Over a four-month period, the students collected many items. Two of the students collected a lot, while the third student collected only a little. How...

P – AS – RT1

You were asked to estimate the number of items raised at the local food drive. You notice that there were a lot of items donated into the following categories: cereal, soup, bread, and frozen. How many items were donated in each of the four categories and what is the...

P – CC – RT1

You and a friend count the number of pamphlets at the community center. You each notice that there are a lot of pamphlets that need to be counted. You decide to skip count by a larger even number while your friend skip counts by a smaller even number. Why would each...

P – CC – RT2

The librarian asks your reading group to count the number of fiction and non-fiction books in the library. Two of you count the fiction books and another two count the non-fiction books. Counting the fiction books does not take long while counting the nonfiction books...

P – CC – RT3

There were some books found in bins in the school library. When the librarian counted the books one-at-a-time, he discovered there were 193 books. When he counted the same books by 5s, he counted a total of 205. The actual count was 93 books. What could have been the...

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