Grade level: 3rd – 5th grades
Skills: Place value
Related environmental issues: Energy
The table below shows the amount of coal mined in the 8 largest coal producing states in 2018.
1. Which state has 9 ten thousand?
2. What is the place value of 3 in the number of Wyoming?
3. How many states have 9 thousands?
4. What is the value of 3 in the number of Indiana?
5. Which state has 61 tens?
6. Which state has 40 hundreds?
7. Which states have the same number in tens place and hundreds place?
Source: U.S. Energy information Administration (U.S. EIA) (2020) Coal Production Ranking, 2018.
Answer keys
6.Indiana
7.Pennsylvania
Factful Environmental Math Problems (2020)
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The objective of Factful Environmental Math Problems is to cultivate our young people’s skills to analyze and evaluate fact-based data for understanding our world, while improving their math skills and critical thinking skills.
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