6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Choose a strategy from the list or use another

strategy you know to solve each problem.

11. There are 5 teams in the local basketball league:
    the Jump Shots, the Zoomers, the Victors, the
    Hoopsters, and the Towers. Each season, every
    team plays every other team twice. How many
    games are played in a season?


12. In the first game of the season, the Towers
    scored 3 points less than twice the
    Hoopsters’ score. If the Towers scored 89
    points, what did the Hoopsters score?


13. Janine scored the following points in the first
    5 games: 24, 29, 20, 28, and 19. How many
    points must Janine score in the sixth game to
    keep her median and mean scores the same?

Use the bar graph for problems 14–16.

14. Which team scored more points in the
    first game?


15. Which game had the greatest point spread
    between the winning and losing scores?


16. Which team won 3 out of 4 of the
    play-off games?

Use the circle graph for problems 17–19.

17. Which two players together scored
    one fourth of the points in Game 4?


18. What part of the team’s points did Janine score?


19. What was the mean score per player
    for the players in game 4?


20. Have each student write a problem
    modeled on the circle graph above.
    Then have a classmate solve it.

Selma Cory

Roberta

Janine

Connie

19

13

16

28

8

The Towers’ Points – Game 4

Use These Strategies

Write an Equation

Make an Organized List

Use a Graph

Use More Than One Step

Guess and Test

Points

0

4th

3rd

2nd

1st

65 70 75 80 85

Games

Key: Zoomers

Towers

Play-Off Scores

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