Algebra Readiness Made Easy Grade 5

Algebra Readiness Made Easy: Gr. 5 © 2008 by Greenes, Findell & Cavanagh, Scholastic Teaching Resources

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TEACHING TRANSPARENCY

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Who is on the ball?

Mary Cassatt was a painter and printmaker. She is most

famous for her paintings of children. Mary Cassatt was born

on May P ,1844.

The letter Pstands for the birth date.

Usethe clues to figure out P.

CLUES:

1. 
   

   P ≤5 x 5

   
   


2. 
   

   P ÷2 has a zero remainder.

   
   


3. 
   

   The sum of the tens and ones digits of

   
   

P is an even number.

4. The difference between the tens and ones digits is less than 2.

Sally Soccer Bobby Baseball

Buddy Basketball

As an artist in

my spare time,

I amcertain

that Pis 20.

Using our two

brains, we

are sure that

Pis 22.

You don’t

have to be an

artist to know

that Pis

clearly 24.

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