December 20th POW Answer

The kids will meet at the 24th house.

Bonus: The kids will meet a second time at the 48th house.

December 13th POW Answer

15 balls

Bonus: 10% of the balls CANNOT be basketballs because 10% of 15 is 1.5 balls.

Equivalent Fractions

Common Core Standard 4.NF.1: Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (nxa)/(nxb) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

December 6th POW Answer

1. After 100 Mercury days you would be 29 years old.
2. After 100 Saturn days you would still be 13 years old.

BONUS: The planet that you would age the most after 100 local day: Venus

November 22nd POW Answer

Anthony will need to make 65 rolls. He can only make full batches according to his recipe which makes 2 dozen. Being that he needs 65 rolls he will need to make 6 dozen roll.

BONUS question measurement are as follows:

 

16.5 cups flour

9 teaspoons sugar

6 teaspoons salt

4.5 teaspoons of yeast

4.5 cups of milk

1.5 cups of water

2.25 cups of butter

What do we do with the remainders?

 

Common Core Standard 4.NBT.6: Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

November 15th POW Answer

12 different looking arrangements: (G=Grace Hopper, F= Leonardo Fibonacci, E= Leonhard Eulers)

GFEE
GEFE
GEEF
FGEE
FEGE
FEEG
EEGF
EEFG
EGEF
EGFE
EFEG
EFGE

 

BONUS: Number of times G is on the left: 3

                 Number of times E is on the left: 6