Question

Flower Power

Matilda wants to plant flowers. She wants to have

an equal number of tulips and daffodils in yellow,

orange, and white. But when Matilda bought a bag

of bulbs, she didn’t know how many of each color

she had. Use the facts below to see how many

flowers of each color Matilda has.

1. Of the three colors, each group has a different

number of members.

2. Twice as many tulips are orange as daffodils are

yellow.

3. Four times as many tulips are white as daffodils

are orange.

4. An equal number of tulips are orange as

daffodils are white.

5. Three more daffodils are yellow as tulips are

yellow.

6. No tulips are yellow.

LEVEL 2- MEDIUM LEVEL 3- DIFFICULT

Scrambled Sentences

Write this sentence on the board and copy it onto a

sheet of paper:

O xwen o my zoct xand O saiz, “Zoct, O broked my

arml in hr plaxces.” Hex saiz, “Wellp, tayl xout of th

laces.”

Then follow the directions to unscramble the

sentence. Read aloud the following:

1. Change all the z’s to d’s.

2. Cross off all the x’s.

3. Add a t to the end of the second word, the

beginning of the third word, and the beginning of

the fifteenth word.

4. Change the three-capital o’s to capital i’s.

5. Add a p to the beginning of the last word.

6. Cross off the last letter in the eleventh,

thirteenth, and nineteenth words.

7. Put an s on the front of the twentieth word and

cross off the last letter.

8. Add or to the end of the fifth and ninth word.

9. Add ee to the end of the fifteenth word.

10. Add ose to the end of the next to last word.

Now how does the sentence read?

Orange Yellow White Total

Daffodils 10

Tulips

Totals 20​

Answer 1

Answer:

an equal number of tulips and daffodils in yellow,

orange, and white. But when Matilda bought a bag

of bulbs, she didn’t know how many of each color

she had. Use the facts below to see how many

flowers of each color Matilda has.

1. Of the three colors, each group has a different

number of members.

2. Twice as many tulips are orange as daffodils are

yellow.

3. Four times as many tulips are white as daffodils

are orange.

4. An equal number of tulips are orange as

daffodils are white.

5. Three more daffodils are yellow as tulips are

yellow.

6. No tulips are yellow.