Problem of the Week
for Friday, September 22

Barbara is looking for new paperweights to hold down late assignments.
She found a nice one – a half-pound solid glass cube, perfect for the fourth grade papers.
For the fifth grade papers, however, she will need something quite a bit heavier.
She found another glass cube that is exactly twice the height of the first one.
How much does it weigh?

Correct Solutions:

2nd Grade: Maya* Julia, Louis, Charlotte, Vivian, Nicky & EMMA!

3rd Grade: Eliza

Middle School: Isabel, David Emilia, Kimani, Sophie, Meina, Dora, Jakob,
Oliver, Henry, Julian, Ali, Moses, Isaac, Oliya

*Maya's Solution:

"i uoswd dice. i fit the small cubes ino the big one. the amont was 8.
use frakshins two haves ekul a whol so its Four Pounds."