Kitten Math WebQuest

Please complete the following tasks on a piece of paper. Be sure to make it colorful. After you complete the tasks you are going to organize your solutions into a poster format. Create a poster or a online presentation. Include your calculations, graphs, and any interesting facts you found about kittens. Lets get started! Use the process page for links to websites. 

Research how many kittens are usually in a litter. Hint (Multiply)

1.)  If a mother cat has 6 kittens in her litter and she has 5 total litters, how many kittens does she have in total? 

2.) If each kitten eats 3/4 cup of food a day, how much food do all the kittens need for a week?

Find out the average weight of a kitten (usually between 1 to 4 pounds).

1.) Calculate the total weight of 6 kittens that weigh 2.3 pounds each and 8 that weigh 4.7 pounds each.

Division Practice:

1.) A shelter has 24 kittens. If they adopt out 6 kittens each week, how many weeks will it take to adopt all the kittens?

Think: 24 kittens÷6 kittens/week=?

2.) Create a bar graph to show how many kittens are adopted over 4 weeks if 6 kittens are adopted each week.

Graphing help:

Each week, 6 kittens are adopted.

On your graph, each bar should go up to ___ for each week.

Label your weeks on the bottom (Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4).

Multiplication and Subtraction Practice:

Research the average cost of adopting a kitten (approximately $300).

1.) If your family adopts 2 kittens, what will be the total cost?

2.) If you have a budget of $1,000, how much money will you have left after adopting the kittens?

Measurement Practice

1.) If the adoption center has a rectangular play pen for the kittens that is 12 feet long and 7 feet wide, what is the area of the play pen?

Remember: LENGTH x WIDTH

Bonus:

1.) Garfield goes from 2 pounds to 10 pounds in a month. Susie goes from 1 pound to 7 pounds in a month. What is the average weight gain the kittens experience?

2. Garfield ate 2/3 of his food this morning and Susie ate 3/4 of her food this morning. What is the fraction of the total food ate?

3.) A kitten measures 5 inches long and his brother measures 7.8 inches long. How many inches total do they measure? 

Now I want you to play this cat wars game https://www.mathgames.com/play/cat-wars.html. You are going to click on grade 5 and select the skill you want to practice. I encourage you to challenge yourself by working on the division and multiplication skills.