Problem of the Week
Problem of the Week Grade 6 Write On!
Victoria’s university English teacher Mr. McTuffie has told her she will have 27 assignments this semester. Victoria has discovered that she needs to spend 3.5 hours on each assignment, and has decided to alternate between doing two assignments the first week and three assignments the next week. a) How many hours will Victoria spend on her English assignments in the first four weeks? b) What is the total time she will spend on her assignments? c) How many weeks will it take Victoria to complete her assignments?
Strand Number Sense and Numeration
Problem of the Week Grade 7 No Lemons, No Melon The title, “No Lemons, No Melon”, is an example of a palindrome, a phrase that is the same when read forwards or backwards. Single words like MOM and BOB are palindromes. Numbers like 7, 414 and 12321 are also palindromes. Next week, on October 8, 2018, you should greet everyone by saying, “Happy Palindrome Day”. When the date is written in the form d-mm-yyyy, October 8 , 2018 is 8102018, a palindrome. In honour of Palindrome Day, we pose a palindrome problem. Determine the smallest and largest seven-digit palindromic numbers which are divisible by 15. It may be helpful to note that a number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. For example, 15972 is divisible by 3 since 1+5+9+7+2=24 and 24 is divisible by 3.
Strand Number Sense and Numeration
Victoria’s university English teacher Mr. McTuffie has told her she will have 27 assignments this semester. Victoria has discovered that she needs to spend 3.5 hours on each assignment, and has decided to alternate between doing two assignments the first week and three assignments the next week. a) How many hours will Victoria spend on her English assignments in the first four weeks? b) What is the total time she will spend on her assignments? c) How many weeks will it take Victoria to complete her assignments?
Strand Number Sense and Numeration
Problem of the Week Grade 7 No Lemons, No Melon The title, “No Lemons, No Melon”, is an example of a palindrome, a phrase that is the same when read forwards or backwards. Single words like MOM and BOB are palindromes. Numbers like 7, 414 and 12321 are also palindromes. Next week, on October 8, 2018, you should greet everyone by saying, “Happy Palindrome Day”. When the date is written in the form d-mm-yyyy, October 8 , 2018 is 8102018, a palindrome. In honour of Palindrome Day, we pose a palindrome problem. Determine the smallest and largest seven-digit palindromic numbers which are divisible by 15. It may be helpful to note that a number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. For example, 15972 is divisible by 3 since 1+5+9+7+2=24 and 24 is divisible by 3.
Strand Number Sense and Numeration
