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Last Week's Classroom Challenge:
Challenge for the Week Ending October 20
Solution:
Proverbs
Proverbs are old, familiar sayings that often give advice for daily living. Complete each of the following proverbs and explain what they mean.
1. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, happy and wise.
2. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
3. Birds of a feather flock together.
4. A penny saved is a penny earned.
5. Two wrongs don't make a right.
6. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
7. Look before you leap.
8. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
9. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
10. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
This Week's Classroom Challenge:
Challenge the Week Ending October 20
Challenge:
Addition and Subtraction
Place + and - signs between the digits so that both sides of each equation are equal.
6 4 1 2 6 2 = 15
9 1 3 1 4 1 = 5
9 3 4 1 2 3 = 14
5 1 1 3 4 6 = 18
9 8 6 3 5 3 = 8
2 1 8 9 3 5 = 20
5 3 2 4 1 5 =12
4 9 3 7 3 1 = 11
7 6 2 8 7 1 = 3
9 9 9 2 2 8 = 1