Thanksgiving Math Challenges!

Grade Level: K-5- change the numbers to fit your students' needs.
Skills: Various

1. If turkeys have 2 wings each, how many wings would 7 turkeys have?

2. If you have 2 pumpkin pies and cut each into 8 slices, how many slices would you have in total?

3. If there are 9 pilgrims in a boat and 4 of them are wearing hats, how many are not wearing hats?

4. Turkeys have 2 legs, and dogs have 4 legs, how many combinations of dogs and turkeys will give you 10 legs in total? How about 20 legs?

5. If Thanksgiving is on Thursday, November 24th, what day of the week will it be on November 30th?

6. A Thanksgiving turkey starts with a weight of 10 pounds. If it then gains 3 pounds each morning, but loses 1 pound each night, how much does the turkey weigh after 7 days?

7. You have 58 Thanksgiving pies. 27 of them are pumpkin pies. How many are not pumpkin pies?

8. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims and the Wampanoag people in the year 1621. How many years, including this one, has Thanksgiving been celebrated?

10. There are 18 place settings at a Thanksgiving table. Each place setting has 1 big plate, 1 small plate, and 1 dessert plate. How many plates are on the table in total? How many more place settings would you need so that there are exactly 99 plates on the table?

11. There are 5 turkeys in a cage. One weighs 11 pounds, one weighs 17 pounds, one weighs 24 pounds, and 2 weigh 19 pounds each. What is the average weight of the turkeys in the cage?

12. Each year, my family eats more cranberry sauce on thanksgiving.
In 2008, we ate 3 ounces
In 2009, we ate 9 ounces
In 2010 we ate 27 ounces
If this pattern continues, how many ounces of cranberry sauce would we eat in the year 2016? (figure out the pattern first)

13. If you use 36 cranberries to make each bowl of cranberry sauce, how many cranberries do you need to make 3 1/2 bowls of cranberry sauce?

14. If 4 ounces of turkey has 8 grams of fat and 170 calories, how many grams of fat, and how many calories are in a pound of turkey?

15. If a turkey weighs 16 pounds, how many calories does it have? (remember there are 170 calories in 4 ounces of turkey)

16. A turkey has 1595 grams of protein. If there are 84 grams of protein in a pound of turkey. How much does the turkey weigh?

17. There are 6 turkeys in a cage. One weighs 11 pounds, one weighs 17 pounds, one weighs 24 pounds, and 2 weigh 19 pounds each. How much would the sixth turkey have to weigh to give the turkeys an average weight of 21 pounds?