Saving Money for Thrift Stamps 1. A thrift stamp costs 25 cents. How much do 2 thrift stamps cost? 3 thrift stamps? 4 thrift stamps? 2. At 35 cents a week how much did Robert save in 4 weeks by staying away from moving pictures? W.S.S 0. 3. On Monday we collected 4 cents from each of 115 pupils for our War Savings Club. How much did we collect? 4. It takes 16 thrift stamps to fill a thrift card. How many stamps will fill of a card? of a card? 5. Robert earned 96 cents one week by carrying traveling bags. He saved of it. How much did he save? 6. Edith received $2, or 200 cents, on her birthday and spent of it for thrift stamps. How much did she spend for stamps ? 7. Edith stopped buying candy. She saved 4 cents a day for 12 days. How much did she save? How much more did she need for 2 thrift stamps ? 8. Robert handed the post-office clerk 3 dimes and asked for a thrift stamp. How much change did he get? 9. Edith earned 27 cents one week by washing dishes and 7 cents by running errands. She bought a thrift stamp for 25 cents. How much money had she left? CHAPTER IV READING AND WRITING NUMBERS 1. Read: Ida picked 295 daisies. 2. Add 1 to 1000. The sum is one thousand thousand one, written 1001. 3. The thousands are written 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000. Write in figures: 4. One thousand nine. 5. Two thousand six. 6. Four thousand eight. 7. Nine thousand three. The first figure on the right is called the ones' figure; the next is called the tens' figure; the next is called the hundreds' figure; the next is called the thousands' figure. 1625 is read 1 thousand 6 hundred 25. 8. Read Our class gathered 8056 daisies. 9. Read; then write: 1025, 2040, 7008, 9456, 8099. Write as one number: 10. 6 hundreds, 4 tens, 8 ones. 11. 8 thousands, 5 hundreds, 0 tens, 3 ones. 12. 4 thousands, 0 hundreds, 0 tens, 5 ones. 3. Read: In one year my father spent $356.75 for food, $254.50 for rent, and $187.05 for clothing. 4. Read: An airplane made a flight of 5700 miles at the rate of 80 miles an hour. It carried 1200 gallons of gasoline, which was enough for a flight of 16 hours. 5. Write from dictation: 5603 Liberty motors were turned out in October, 1918. |