Friday, 9/2/11 - Weird Fire/Lockdown-Drill Schedule
Prepare sheet for Test #1. Be sure to record your KBARR scores after I finish reading yours. A completed chart = 20, and then add up the 4 response scores.Your total should be in the 45-60 range.
Mental Floss.
  1. A boat has a ladder hanging off the side that has six rungs. Each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?
  2. Show how it is possible to name the capital of each and every one of the United States in less than a minute.
  3. Which is correct, "bigger of two halves" or "biggest of two halves"?
  4. Johnny's mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child?
  5. There are ten sheep walking in a straight line across a field. What numbered sheep can look back and say he is the third from the last in line?
  6. A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick; I'm just betting you can't count.)
  7. A pen and a bottle of ink cost $1.10. The pen costs exactly $1.00 more than the ink. What does each cost? (Not a trick, just math.)


Test #1
If you scored 12/12 on the vocacbulary pretest, skip the voabulary section. The Outsiders section is open book
Doodle Theme: Messy Room (Nobody had a chance last week.)