Thursday, May 23, 2013

Student created problems (unedited...)

1. It Leo's monthly pay (m) increases by $25 each month, what is the expression for it?

2. My friend and I are out on the porch the sun has set and we are are chatting into the night when a question rises. There's a light bulb above us attracting big flies, we want to know the estimated number of flies there is going to be in 9 minutes. We have been out here for 2 minutes and when we first came there were 0 flies now their are 6. If this pattern continues how many flies are there going to be?

3. The new sponge factory sold 10 sponges in each box. In the first month, They sold 20 boxes. Each sponge cost 1 dollar. 10% of the profit was used to pay a major sponsoring company. During the next few months they sold 100 sponges more of the last month. How much profit did they accumulate in the 10 months?

4. Tetsu ride her bike everyday, the first day she ride 10 mile, she increase 3 miles everyday. how many miles do she ride in the nth day?

5. The first day, Teteu read x pages of the book, second day read half of x pages of the book, the third day she read 2 times x pages of the book, how many does she read?

6. The droids are attacking the Wookie village! If each one of the Jedi's ships can hold 15 Jedi, and each ship takes 1 hour to launch, calculate the amount of Jedi in the Wookie village in 5 hours.

7. Frank wants to drive from New York to Utah, first day he drive 80 miles, second day he dive 60 miles, third day he drive 80 miles, forth day he drive 60 miles, how many miles will he drive on the fifth day?

8. 1 floor = 2 meter  A tower is 24 m high. But they are still building X floor every year. 8 year later the building crush and remain only 64 meter left.


Ratings
1. Please rate each one on an originality scale (1-5 with 5=Awesome! A text book company would want this question.)

2. Please rate each one as a math problem that models repeating patterns. (1-5 with 5 being an intricate pattern)

3. Please rate each one on its ease to be understood. (1-5 with 5 taking no effort to understand the writing and what is expected.)

Solve the problems

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