Daily Archives: November 6, 2017

Here are two grade four and two grade five problems that I’ve chosen from the favourite problems as mentioned in my last post on the blog.  Each problem is an excellent problem, so congratulations math problem writers!  In each grade samples below, one of the choices is even a little more fitted for patterning solutions.  Can you tell which one in each of the grade samples?

Grade 4

Paulina had 11 dogs. One dog got stolen each Tuesday and Thursday. How many weeks until she has no more dogs?

Leon has $3,600. He got that in one year. How much does he get per month?

Grade 5

Mary makes very good pumpkin pie. She decided that she will sell each pie for $7. Mary sold 149 pies! How much money did she make in her sale? What kind of pattern can you use to show your answer?

Bob is putting pucks in a bucket. He put one puck in on the first day, five pucks in on the second day, 9 pucks in on the third day, and 13 pucks in on the fourth day. If this pattern continues, how many pucks will Bob have in on the 5th day?

Today, the class voted on their favourite patterninig problems (as written by other classmates) based on the following criteria:

• a problem that has either a gr.4 or gr. 5 “complexity” (challenge level) to it
• a problem that is understood and/or enjoyed by children of 8 – 12 years of age (audience)
• a problem which uses patterning as its most obvious solution.