... currently teaches English in the Cold Spring Harbor
School District on Long Island.
Mr. Umstatter graduated from Manhattan College with a B.A. in Englishand completed
his M.A. in English at S.U.N.Y–Stony ... Orleans and Los Angeles.
Mr. Umstatter’s other publications include Hooked on Literature! (1994), 201 Ready-to-Use
Word Games for the English Classroom (1994), Brain Games! (1996), Hooked on English! ... former students, Kira Licata and Nora McGeough, for
their writings found in activities 163 and 164.
iv
6. VERBS AND PRONOUNS GALORE!
Draw a circle around 10 verbs and a box around 10 pronouns...
... while performing the experiments or activities in the book. Parents, guardians, and/ or teachers should
supervise young readers who undertake the experiments andactivities in this book.
For general ... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Long, Lynette.
Wacky word problems : gamesandactivities that make math easy and fun / Lynette Long.
p. cm. —(Magical math)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-471-21061-7 ... find to
make a mile?
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WACKY W ORD
P ROBLEMS
Games andActivities
That Make Math Easy and Fun
Lynette Long
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Magical Math
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... baseball
team on the
Internet, and play
some fast-paced
games with your
friends.
Fractions, decimals, and percents express parts of wholes. In
fact, you can use fractions, decimals, and percents to describe
parts ... while performing the experiments or activities in the book. Parents, guardians, and/ or teachers should
supervise young readers who undertake the experiments andactivities in this book.
For general ... tenths and one to represent hundredths).
Player 1 subtracts the number rolled from 0.99. Example: If a player rolls a
3 and 2, the decimal created could be 0.32 or 0.23. Player 1 chooses 0.23
and...
... noun it modifi es.
2. It has comparative and superlative forms. We can use slow in the comparative and super-
lative forms, but there are no comparative and superlative forms for the article the:
Base ... three smaller groups and address each group in a
separate chapter. In this chapter we will cover what we will call “true” adjectives. In Chapter 3 we
will cover articles, and in Chapter 4 we ... they modify.
2. They have comparative and superlative forms.
3. They can be used as predicate adjectives.
To see the difference between a true adjective and another common type of noun modifi...
... yesterday?
5. The fl ower (the flower’s) name I couldn’t recall is a hydrangea.
6. This is my husband (my husband) I don’t think you have met before.
7. We need to replace the window (the window’s) glass ... same object marker as in him and them.) If the relative pronoun is posses-
sive, we must use whose. In the following examples the relative pronoun is in italics and the entire
adjective clause ... painting by the English painter Turner has just been discovered.
8. I had no illusions about my chances.
9. The witness to the crime refused to testify.
10. We couldn’t understand his motive...