4/5F Week 9 Homework

Maths

Solve the word problems below. Dont forget to show your working out!
PLEASE do your work neatly and paste it into your homework books!
a) Santa is off shopping to buy his elves a Christmas present!
What is the total cost of a Wii costing $239.50 and an Xbox
360 costing $149.60?
b) Christmas lights cost $7 per box. Santa needs 43 boxes for his
grotto. How much does he pay?
c) Santa also needs to buy carrots for all of his reindeer. They
cost $26 per box (theyre expensive carrots!) How much will it
cost him if each of his 8 reindeer need 2 boxes each?
d) Santas elves have decided to buy Santa a Flat screen TV for
Christmas. It costs $1295. They have saved $476. How much
more money do they need?
e) Santas elves have made 837 toy trains so far. They need
2975. How many more do they need to make?
f) Santa buys Rudolph a new harness costing $28.50 and new
scarves for his elf costing $8.95. How much does he pay?
g) Santas special Christmas hamper costs $19. How much do 8
cost?
h) Santas mince pies come in packs of 6. If there are 78 mince
pies, how many boxes are there?
Please write your answers in your homework book make sure you
show your working out.

Literacy / Research - Fact Finding Mission:

Use your homework time this week to research interesting and unique
facts about Christmas.
Your goal is to find 6 interesting and unique facts about Christmas. They
can be facts from Christmas in Australia, or Christmas around the world.
We will create a class bunting (Triangular shaped flags that hang on a
string) and each triangle will have an interesting fact about Christmas.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Please type up your facts using word.
Create a table in word with 3 columns. Write 1 fact in each column, You
can use fancy font (as long as we can read it) and you MUST set it at 16pt
in size and bold if you can. Dont worry about making the letters colourful
just write in black. You can either print this off at home and put it into
your homework book, (Dont glue it) or you can save it to edmodo and we
can print it at school.

For example:
COLUMN 1
COLUMN 2
COLUMN 3
This is my 3-column Another fact in this And another one in this
table. I would write 1 column
column. I would make
fact in this column
another table on a
separate page.
Make sure you make it
in 16pt font and bold it
if you can.