1. October 18, 2012

2.  7-2 =  9-5 =  12-6 =  15-4 =  17-14 =  28 - 7  35 -9

4.  What beautiful flowers! One display won a blue ribbon. It had 28 flowers. Seven of the flowers were white roses. How many of the flowers were not white roses?

5.  Read  Ask 3 questions: 1)What do you know? ▪ One display won a ribbon. The display has 28 flowers. 7 flowers are white roses. 2)What do you need to find? ▪ The number of flowers in the display that are not white roses. 3)What information is unimportant? ▪ One display won a ribbon.

6.  Plan  Find the difference between the total number of flowers and the number of white roses. You can subtract.  Solve  28-7 = 21 flowers  Don’t forget your P.A.L!

7.  Mrs. Potter won 14 ribbons. Mr. Smith won 15 first-place ribbons and 2 second-place ribbons. How many ribbons did Mr. Smith win in all?

8.  The Garden Club made 18 displays for the show. One is a flag made with red, white, and blue flowers. The flag has 17 flowers in it. There are 6 red flowers and 8 white flowers. How many blue flowers are there?

9. Garden Club News TreeNumber of Trees Apple26 Cherry8 Peach8 Maple35 Oak9  There are 27 more maple trees than peach trees. How many more maple trees than oak trees are at the show?

10. Garden Club News TreeNumber of Trees Apple26 Cherry8 Peach8 Maple35 Oak9  There are 23 fewer cherry trees than apple trees. How many more maple trees than cherry trees are at the show?

11.  Take turns rolling the dice.  Move your game piece the number of spaces on the dice.  If you land on a blank space, pull a card.  Read the word problem on the card and try to solve it. The other players should try to solve it too.  Check your answer on the back of the card. ▪ If you are right, stay where you are. ▪ If you are wrong, move back one space.  The first person to the FINISH, wins!