PAGE ONE: FOUR WORD PROBLEMS

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1. A jar containing yellow and green blocks held FOUR more yellow blocks than green ones. Altogether, there were 38 blocks in the jar. How many yellow blocks were there?

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2. A jar containing yellow and blue jelly beans held FOUR LESS than twice as many yellow jelly beans as blue ones. Altogether, there were 95 jelly beans in the jar. How many of each color?

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3. A jar contained an equal number of green and pink jelly beans. It also contained yellow jelly beans, but only half as many as each of the other 2 colors. (Yellow was half of green, and yellow was also half of pink) Then, the shopkeeper poured in more yellow jelly beans. After that, the jar contained THREE times as many yellow jelly beans as it had before. Altogether, the jar now contained 77 jelly beans in total. How many yellow jelly beans are there now?

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Optional Challenge - WORD PROBLEM

X, Y and Z have 240 cards altogether. When X gave some of his cards to Y, the number of Y’s cards was doubled. Then X gave some of his cards to Z, too, and the number of Z’s cards was doubled. In the end, the 3 students had the same number of cards. How many cards did X have at first?

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4. A jar contained 5 colors of jelly beans. It contained FOUR more green jelly beans than blue ones. It contained THREE more yellow jelly beans than green ones. It contained TEN more orange than yellow jelly beans. The number of red jelly beans equaled the number of orange ones. If the whole jar contained 180 jelly beans, how many red ones did it contain?

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Build the following squares (perhaps with a partner). Look for interesting patterns or relationships.

SNAP CUBE STATION: MY OBSERVATIONS

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