Real-World Problem Solving Math and Science Measurement About the Cover When was the last time it rained where you live? Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Place Columbus, OH 43240-4027 ISBN: 978-0-02-106206-5 MHID: 0-02-106206-4 Printed in the United States of America. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 109 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Real-World Problem Solving Listen as your teacher reads each problem. Then answer it. 1. Look at page 3. Did it rain longer on Sunday or on Monday? How much longer? 4. Write a word problem about the data on the graph on page 7. 2. Look at the graph on page 5. On which day did it rain for more than 2 hours? 5. Look at the graph on page 8. How many total raindrops are shown on the graph? How many days in all did it rain? 3. Look at the Did You Know? on page 6. How old were you two years ago? Measurement Where we live, it is rainy in the spring. This has been a wet week. It rained on Sunday. 2 It rained again on Monday. It rained longer than on Sunday. How much longer did it rain? Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday one half hour of rain no rain Friday Saturday 3 Guess what? It rained all morning on Tuesday. We put a cup outside. We wanted to see how much rain would fall. B9_02P_G01LEV 4 We looked at the cup. The water was almost one paper clip deep! It did not rain on Wednesday. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday one half hour of rain no rain Friday Saturday 5 It rained a little bit on Thursday. There was no rainfall in Bagdad, California, for over two years. 6 On Friday it rained most of the day. Nobody could play outside. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday one half hou