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Bookseller Decisions Activity Sheet
McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 5, Chapter 13
Name: Date:
Bookseller Decisions
Welcome to the Newbery Medal Home Page!
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
Visit this Web site to see lists of award-winning books for young people. Imagine
yourself managing a bookstore as you solve the problems below.
- Read about the newest Newbery Medal Winners.
- Then click Past Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books.
- Use the list of books to solve problems on your worksheet below.
- You may want to print the page to make it easier to count the numbers of
books.
Past Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books
- What is the ratio of Newbery Medal Winners in 2000 to the total number of
Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books in 2000? Write the ratio in three ways.
- What is the ratio of Newbery Medal winners in 2001 to the total number of
Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books in 2001? Write the ratio in three ways.
- You plan to have a total of 90 copies of Newbery Medal Winners and Honor
Books from 2001. You want them to be in the same ratio as the number of Medal
Winners to the total number of Medal Winners and Honor Books. How many copies
of A Year Down Yonder, the 2001 Medal Winner, will you have? Explain how you
found your answer.
- You have a "Newbery Special Table" at your store. You place 46
different books on the table. Each book is a different book from the list
of Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books from the years 1990 through 2001.
If a person is going to pick up one book from the table and that person is
equally likely to pick up each of the books, what is the probability that
the person will pick up a Medal Winner?
- You place all the Medal Winners from 1980 through 2001 on a table. If someone
is going to pick up one book from the table and that person is equally likely
to pick up each of the books, what is the probability that the person will
pick up a book written by Lois Lowry?
- Suppose that you arrange your stock so that 1 out of every 8 book titles
in your store is a Newbery Medal Winner or Honor Book. If you have 4,000 books
in your store, how many are Newbery Medal Winners or Honor Books? Explain
how you found your answer.
- You try arranging your books in a different way. You place 2 copies of each
Newbery Medal Winner and 2 copies of each Honor Book from 2000 and 2001 on
a table with 42 other books. If a person is going to pick up one book from
the table and that person is equally likely to pick up each of the books,
what is the probability that the person will pick up a Newbery Medal Winner
or a Honor Book? Is the probability more or less than 1/5?
- 8. Use the information at the Web site to make up a problem involving ratios
or probability.
Math at Home
Today I explored a Web site about books that received
Newbery Medals or Honors. I solved ratio and probability problems as if I were
a bookstore manager. I found that if I have 4,000 books and I want 1 out of
every 8 books to be an award winner, I need to stock _________ award-winning
books.
You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to show you other Web sites.
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