1. Let 1 inch stand for 1 foot and make a drawing to show the top of the teacher's desk, which is 4 ft. wide and 6 ft. long. 2. Let 1 inch stand for 2 feet and make a diagram of the blackboard, which is 4 ft. wide and 20 ft. long. 3. The school grounds are 200 ft. wide and 300 ft. long. Make a drawing of the grounds in which 1 inch stands for 50 feet. SUGGESTION. If 1 inch represents 50 feet, 4 inches represent 200 feet and 6 inches represent 300 feet. 4. Draw an oblong 4 in. by 4 in. and tell the number of square inches it contains. 5. A rug is 9 ft. by 12 ft. convenient scale to show this. does it contain? Make a drawing on a 6. A schoolroom floor is 30 ft. by 40 ft. How many square feet does it contain? 7. Measure your rugs and rooms at home and make diagrams on a convenient scale to show their sizes. 8. How many square feet are there in the top of a table 2 ft. by 4 ft.? 9. How many square inches are there in a surface containing 3 sq. ft.? 1. Write the days of the week and the months of the year, with their abbreviations. 2. Observe that the second hand moves over 60 small or second spaces, while the minute hand moves over one minute space. 3. Memorize this table: September, November, April, and June have 30 days each. All the other months except February have 31 days each. February usually has 28 days. A year that has 366 days is called a leap year. In leap year February has 29 days. 10. How many days are there in April, May, and June? in November, December, and January? 1. Name the months in the year that have 28 days; 29 days; 30 days; and 31 days. How 2. John has 15 minutes of recess in the morning, 15 minutes in the afternoon, and 1 hour at noon. many minutes of recess has he in all? 3. Mary studies 40 minutes each evening for 6 nights a week. How many minutes does she study during the week? how many hours? 4. Alfred works 30 minutes each day in his school garden. How many minutes does he work in 6 days? how many hours? 5. Add in minutes hr. and hr. 6. Susan helps her mother 15 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening. How many minutes does she help each day? 7. Clyde averages 30 minutes in home study for 180 school days. How many hours of home study does he average? 8. A hammer makes 2 strokes each second. How many strokes does it make in a minute? 9. William gets a book from the library which is to be returned June 16. The book is returned June 30 with a charge of 2 a day for overtime. How much does William pay? 10. Maud retires at 8.40 P.M. and rises at 6.40 A.M. How many hours is she in bed? 1. Name some articles bought by the ounce; by the pound. 2. How many ounces are there in 1 pound? in 10 pounds? Coal, hay, sand, plaster, etc., in large quantities, are sold by the ton of 2000 pounds. 3. Memorize this table: 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (lb.) 4. How many pounds of coal are there in 8 tons? in 7 tons? in 12 tons? 5. Find the number of tons and pounds in 7460 lb. of ice. 6. A freight car carries 60,000 pounds of freight. How many tons does it carry? 7. A dealer buys 150 bales of hay, averaging 90 pounds to the bale. How many tons and pounds over does he buy? 1. At 3 cents an ounce, how much does 1 pound of mustard cost? 2. 2 tons of rolled oats were packed in pound packages. How many packages were there? 3. A load of hay weighed 4000 pounds. How many tons did it weigh? 4. Find the weight of 20 kegs of nails, each weighing 100 lb. 5. A man delivered 3 tons of coal in bags containing 100 lb. each. How many bags of coal were there? 6. How much do 16 lb. prunes cost at 12 a pound? 7. How many ounces of butter are there in 24 lb. ? 8. How much do 18 lb. butter cost at 48¢ a pound? 9. John's father got a coal bill for 6500 lb. of soft coal. How many even tons and pounds over had he bought? 10. How many pounds are there in 3 tons? in 5 tons? in 8 tons? 11. William sold 340 eight-pound baskets of grapes.. How many tons and pounds over did they make? 12. How many 2-ounce packages of ginger could be sold from 10 lb. 10 oz. of ginger? 13. John weighed 101 lb. 9 oz.; and James 111 lb. 10 oz. How many ounces more did James weigh than John? |