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THE BEETLE AND THE BEE
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Game: THE BEETLE AND THE BEE

Aim: Collect the strawberries, avoid the bees

Method:
Move the beetle with the arrow keys or by tapping the screen. When the beetle catches the strawberry, you must answer the question. If you get it right you keep the strawberry and earn points.

Your final score is based on the time taken minus health lost divided by 10.

Total cost: 3 items
      
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The beetle and the bee game to practice
'Total cost: 3 items' for 3rd grade

Total cost of 3 items

When you buy things you need to know how much it will cost you so that you know if you have enough money. We use addition to calculate the TOTAL cost by adding up each individual item cost. Adding money is similar to adding any other numbers in math except that if the 3 numbers together add up to more than one dollar then we need to deal with both dollars and cents.

Sometimes we are just adding the cents: Say we have 3 things that cost 22 cents each. To know the total cost, we simply add the 22 cents three times to get 66 cents. If the items cost different amounts, we can still add up those 3 amounts to get a total cost:

15¢ + 23¢ + 34¢ = 72¢.

When the total goes over one dollar, we need to get an answer in both dollars and cents. So if we add 75 cents, 75 cents and 75 cents we have a total of 225 cents but we know that 200 cents is 2 dollars, so we have 2 dollars and a remainder of 25 cents. So the sum with answer is

75¢ + 75¢ + 75¢ = $2.25¢.


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With our The beetle and the bee math game you will be practicing the topic "Total cost: 3 items" from 3rd grade / Addition / Word problems. The math in this game consists of 14 questions that ask you to use addition to find out how much the 3 items cost in total.

Word problems: adding items and item costs

Learn how to add items and how to add the cost of multiple items

Topic titles:

  • Total number of items
  • Total cost of 2 items
  • Total cost of 3 items

Sometimes in math the problems are not given as numbers but as words and sentences. This doesn't mean that the math you have to do is different, but it does mean you have to work out first what the sum you are being asked to do is, and then work on the sum itself. In this set of topics, the questions are to do with adding up either the total number of items or the total cost of a set of 2 or 3 items.

When we want to understand math addition word problems, we need to read carefully through the text and create the sum that takes the number information out of the text and puts it in a sum. When we read the text "Logan has 30 Rich tea biscuits and 17 Digestives" we can see that the sum involves finding how many biscuits Logan has in total which we find by adding up the number of Rich tea biscuits and digestive biscuits. So the total number of biscuits is 30 + 17 which is 47.

When the sentences we are looking at involve money our addition sum will involve adding amounts of money rather than numbers of items. Given the text "Grace buys 3 pencils for 54¢, 64¢ and 75¢." we realise that we need to add the 3 amounts to come to the total that Grace has spent on pencils. Because that total is greater than 100¢, the answer will be in both dollars and cents. Can you work out what that amount will be? Try the topic "Total cost of 3 items" to check your answer.

Interactive math adventure game to feed the beetle and avoid the bees...

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Fast moving interactive game to learn math where you control the beetle and the bee moves randomly about the screen. The bee should be avoided and the strawberries collected by answering math questions from the topic you have selected - this is learning math for fun!

Notes

  • Fast moving game with character control via keyboard arrows.
  • Suitable for tablets and mobiles by tapping the direction you want the beetle to go.
  • Learn or revise your math and win strawberries for your beetle!
  • On the second set of 5 levels there are 2 bees to avoid...
  • It's a fun game, but it can be hard to get through to the end!
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How to play The beetle and the bee to practice
'Total cost: 3 items' for 3rd grade

Free Math Games screenshot of the beetle and bee game for elementary

The beetle is hungry and sees the tasty strawberry but the angry bee wants to sting it...

  1. Choose "The beetle and the bee" from the games selection page.
  2. When you start the game you are in the first level of a simple maze.
  3. You are the beetle and you want to eat the strawberry but there is a bee who will try to sting you.
  4. Each time the bee stings you, you lose a little of your life.
  5. Use your keyboard's arrows or tap the screen to move the beetle.
  6. Move the beetle around the obstacles avoiding the bee and get to the strawberry.
  7. When you catch a strawberry, you will get a math question from your selected topic.
  8. Select or enter the correct answer.
  9. If you are right you win the strawberry - now you must get back to the swirly "portal" at the top right of the screen.
  10. Entering the portal takes you to the next level of the maze.
  11. The game gets harder after the first 5 levels - now there are 2 bees trying to sting you...
  12. You need to complete all the levels without dying of bee stings to win.
  13. Your final score is your time taken minus your remaining health divided by 10.
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