Halloween Math & Reading — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. What is 8 + 9?
A) 15
B) 16
C) 17
D) 18
The correct answer is B) 63. A witch placed 9 candles on each of 7 tables. How many candles did she use in all — the answer is 63.
2. Which animal is a Halloween symbol?
A) dog
B) bat
C) fish
D) cow
The correct answer is C) Personification. Read: "The wind whispered secrets through the graveyard gates." What figurative language is used — the answer is Personification.
3. What is 15 - 7?
A) 6
B) 7
C) 8
D) 9
The correct answer is C) 80. Liam collected 53 candies and Mia collected 29 candies. What is the best estimate of their total rounded to the nearest ten — the answer is 80.
4. What do you carve on Halloween?
A) apple
B) watermelon
C) pumpkin
D) cake
The correct answer is B) Creepy cats crept carefully past the cobwebs.. Which sentence contains alliteration — the answer is Creepy cats crept carefully past the cobwebs..
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. 13 + 6 = 19
Seven groups of 8 broomsticks is 7 x 8 = 56. A helpful trick: 7 x 8 sounds like a famous equation, five-six: 56.
2. A haunted house is scary.
The resolution comes at the end of a story when the main problem is finally solved and readers learn how everything turns out.
3. 18 - 9 = 9
Round 44 down to 40 and 38 up to 40. Then 40 + 40 = 80. Rounding both numbers makes it easy to add in your head.
4. Vampires come out at night.
A metaphor says something is something else without using 'like' or 'as,' such as 'the moon is a glowing lantern in the sky.'
5. 7 + 6 = 13
Six groups of 9 is 6 x 9 = 54. A nifty trick: 6 x 10 = 60, minus 6 gives 54.