Kurplunk: Week 1

Samantha's dad is building a bookshelf. He needs 5,432 screws to complete the project. Write the expanded form of the number of screws Samantha's dad needs. DOK 1

• 5,000 + 400 + 30 + 2
• 5 + 4 + 3 + 2
• 5,000 + 400 + 20 + 3
• Five thousand four hundred and thirty two

Which best explains why does 3,789 round to 3,800 when rounded to the nearest hundred? DOK 3

• 3,789 will round to 3,800 because the 7 is greater than 5 so we round up.
• 3,789 will round to 3,800 because when placed on a number line 3,789 will fall closer to 3,800 then 3,700.
• 3,789 will round to 3,800 because the 3 thousand is greater than the 7 hundred.
• 3,789 will not round to 3,800. It will round to 3,889 when rounded to the nearest hundred.

When rounded to the nearest thousand, the number of people who attended a concert is 18,000. Which of the following could be the number of people who attended the concert? DOK 2

• 17,264
• 17,428
• 18,135
• 18,526

Which of these numbers has a 5 whose value is ten times the value of the 5 in 7,359? DOK 2

• 5,268
• 4,652
• 3,005
• 2,511

If an number is rounded to the nearest hundred and rounds to 300 which of the following numbers could have been the original number? DOK 2

• 275
• 306
• 251
• 301
• 422

Write the number of students in a school, which is 5,207, in expanded form. DOK 1

• 5,000 + 207
• 5 + 2 + 7
• 5,200 + 7
• 7 + 200 + 5,000

In a candy store, there are 8,934 candies. What is the value of the digit 9 in the number of candies? DOK 1

• 9
• 900
• 90
• 93

Mr. Johnson traveled to a nearby city. The distance he traveled was 2,963 miles. What digit is the hundreds place? DOK 1

• 9
• 900
• 6
• 60

What do the following numbers all have in common? 100,000 ≈ 95,887 3,000,000 ≈ 3,029,000 500,000 ≈ 459,987 DOK 2

• All theses numbers were rounded to the nearest millions place.
• All theses numbers were rounded to the nearest hundred thousand place.
• All theses numbers were rounded to the nearest hundreds place.
• All theses numbers were rounded to the nearest ten thousands place.

You are planning a camping trip, you estimated the weight of your gear. The tent weighs 9 pounds, sleeping bags 17 pounds, and the cooler 15 pounds when empty. Rounding each weight to the nearest whole number, what is the estimated weight for the total gear? DOK 3

• 50 pounds
• 49 pounds
• 41 pounds
• 40 pounds