Week 2

Lower:

Mother Cat is making mittens for her three cold kittens. It takes two balls of wool to make mittens for one kitten. How many balls of wool will Mother Cat need to make mittens for three little kittens? If one ball of wool costs $2, how much money will the three sets of mittens cost to make?

Middle:

On the pirate ship there are 24 pirate swords. Each pirate has 2 swords. If half the pirates lost a sword in battle and a quarter of the pirates each gained a new sword, how many swords would there now be on the pirate ship? If a third of the swords were then lost how many would there be left?

Upper:

Noah is addicted to stick cricket, a game on his computer. At the moment he has won 3300 games, which is 60% of the games he has played. He would like to be able to say that he has won two-thirds of the games that he has played. How many games would Noah have to win in a row to get to the two-thirds winning mark?