Your students will love these holiday math problems!

Happy Holidays from Ascend Math!

Here are some festive math problems to share with your class as you celebrate the holidays.

1. Santa’s reindeers Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blixon, and Rudolph were helping in wrapping gifts. Dasher can wrap 1,000 gifts in 3 hours. Prancer can wrap 300 gifts in 1 hour.  Prancer can wrap 500 gifts in 2 hours.  Vixon can wrap 1,200 gifts in 5 hours.  Comet can wrap 1,000 gifts in 4 hours.  Cupid can wrap 800 gifts in 4 hours.  Donner and Blixon together can wrap 3,300 gifts in 5 hours.  Blixon can wrap 1,200 gifts in 4 hours.  Rudolf can wrap 1,600 gifts in 6 hours.There are 30,000 gifts to wrap.  How long would it take all of these reindeers together to wrap all these gifts together?  How many gifts did each of the reindeers wrap during this period of time?

1. Each bag of Hanukkah gelt has 8 pieces in it. Joseph collected 12 bags of Hanukkah gelt. How many pieces of gelt does he have altogether?

3. The song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ has many presents:A partridge in a pear tree
   Two turtle doves
   Three French hens
   Four calling birds
   Five golden rings
   Six geese a-laying
   Seven swans a-swimming
   Eight maids a-milking
   Nine drummers drumming
   Ten pipers piping
   Eleven dancers dancing
   Twelve lords a-leaping

   Throughout the entire song, including all twelve ‘verses’, which present(s) shows up most often?

4. Lila is making baskets of fruit to decorate for Kwanzaa. She has 22 apples 19 bananas, and 7 oranges. If she puts an equal number of fruit into each of 3 baskets, how many pieces of fruit will be in each basket?
5. After the trip on the Polar Express, it was Christmas morning. Santa left 13 presents each for Sarah, her brother, her mom, and her dad. How many gifts did Santa leave for the family?