Halloween Math Challenges!

Grade Level: K-5 in increasing order of difficulty (depends on your students)
Skills: Various

1. If ghost costumes have 2 eyes each, how many eyes are on 6 ghost costumes? (draw a picture to help solve this)

2. If a teacher cuts 7 candy apples in half, how many half apples will there be? (draw a picture to help solve this)

3. If Halloween (October 31) is on a Saturday, what day of the week is November 11?

4. If there are 19 candy apples and 7 of them have worms, how many candy apples don't have worms?

5. You went trick of treating and got 9 lollipops! You decide to eat 2 each day, starting on a Monday, by which day of the week will you have eaten all of your lollipops?

6. Some ghosts want to make signs with their names on them. These are the ghosts names:

Spooky
Chiller
Scary
Howler
BooBoos

If vowels cost $3 each, and consonants cost $2 each, which ghost will have to pay the most to make a sign ?
Which ghost will pay the least?
Do any 2 ghost names cost the same amount?

7. You got trick or treating with some friends. At the first house, you get 2 pieces of candy, at the second house you get 4 pieces of candy, and at the third house, you get 6 pieces of candy. If this pattern continues, how many pieces of candy will you have after visiting 8 houses? (figure out the pattern first)

8. If each pumpkin has 24 pumpkin seeds, how many pumpkin seeds are in 2 1/2 pumpkins?

9. A bag of candy corn has160 calories in total. If the bag has 20 pieces of candy corn, how many calories does each piece of candy corn have?

10. There are78 pieces of candy in one plastic pumpkin, 62 in another, and 31 in the third, what is the average number of candies in the plastic pumpkins?

11. You just put on your new Halloween costume and you and your friends are going trick or treating.  At the first house you get 5 pieces of candy, at the second house, you get 10, and at the third house, you get 15. If the pattern continues and there are 12 houses on your street, how many pieces of candy will you get in all? (find the pattern first)

Challenge: If you eat 2 pieces of candy between each house, how many would you have after all 12 houses?

Super Challenge: If you went trick or treating with 8 friends and they all got the same amount of candy as you, how many pieces of candy did you and your 8 friends get in total?

12. Each year, in your town, there are twice as many houses for trick or treating. This year there are only 8 houses, in how many years will there be over 1 million houses?