Welcome

I would like to welcome all bloggers to my new blog. I am new to this, so I'm not really sure of what I'm doing. I hope to be able to have math conversations with my students and anyone else who would like to get involved. So, here I go.......

Saturday, July 31, 2010

#4

Find the largest 6-digit number in which the first three numbers are different odd digits which add up to 21, and the last three numbers are different even digits that add up to 18.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

#3

The product of the page numbers of two consecutive pages is 5,852. What are the page numbers? Estimate what pages you would need to open a book to in order for the product of the page numbers to equal 7,832, 2,162, and 39,402,

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

#2

The highway distance from Boston to Cleveland is 1028km. A car leaves Boston averaging 88km/h at the same time a car leaves Cleveland averaging 77km/h. How far apart will the cars be when they have traveled toward each other for 6 hours?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

In a car tour,Phil started at the park and drove 20 km west, 15 km east, and 70 km south. If all the roads run either north/south, or east/west, what is the shortest route Phil can take to return to the park? Give the directions and distances he must travel.