Name: __________________________
Math Brain Warm-up: October 11-15, 2011
Please, do not go ahead on warm-ups.
The warm-ups will be collected at the end of each week. If you were absent on Friday,
make sure you hand in your warm-up from the week before.
Monday – Fractions
Write down your homework read the directions complete the warm-up.
1. The diagram represents
of a fifths fraction strip. Sketch the whole strip.
2. Trey’s car has a 20-gallon gas tank. The gas gauge right now looks like the one shown. Suppose Trey buys 10
gallons of gas. What will be the new reading on the gas gauge?
Tuesday – Computation
Solve the problems below.
1. 8)6568 0
2. 5423
x 63
3.
Wednesday- Fractional Pieces
Write down your homework read the directions complete the warm-up.
Shade each grid to represent the given fraction.
a. Represent the fraction
on each grid.
b. Represent the fraction
on each grid.
c. Represent the fraction
on each grid.
Thursday- -No class (KSS)
Friday- -Fractional Pieces
Write down your homework read the directions complete the warm-up.
1. The drawing below shows part of an inch ruler. The picture has been enlarged. Each inch is broken into
smaller pieces to measure more accurately than in whole inches. Label each mark on the ruler with a correct
fraction.
2. Find the name for the shaded part of the figure below. Explain how you figured out what fractional part of the
whole was shaded.