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Calculator StoryYou can use your calculator to write stories as well as do long difficult mathematical calculations.

Use your calculator to do the following calculation : 5318 x 1 000 + 804. Your answer be 5318804. Turn your calculator upside down. Can you see this answer spells the word ‘HOBBIES’? Do the calculations in the story below, turn you calculator upside down and write the words formed in the spaces provided.

******************************************************************************1. 40 x 10 + 38 + 762. 33 x 33 x 33 – 9313. 1 000 000 ÷200 + 27354. 36 x 10 + 1545. 2 000 x 10 + 15 000 + 3366. 500 000 ÷ 10 ÷ 5 – 5 000 + 6637. 20 x 20 x 20 – 8958. 304 x 5 x 2 + 59. 53 x 3 x 3 + 24 x 10 + 32810. 65 x 12 – 17311. 5 000 ÷ 10 ÷ 5 – 68 + 212. 44 x 100 + 1 300 – 6313. 25 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 30 x 9 – 328514. 451 x 100 x 100 + 7 73415. 23 x 20 x 5 x 2 + 70 – 5616. 54 x 200 x 50 – 2 000 + 7617. 45 x 3 x 3 x 10 + 45618. 28 x 2 000 + 2 000 – 26219. 45 x 3 x 2 + 39 x 220. 77 + 7 000 + 700 – 5921. 33 x 33 x 2 + 3 00322. 352 500 + 28 052 – 1 74623. 13 x 100 + 3424. 40 x 20 x 9 x 7 x 3 x 3 + 130 000 – 6 25525. 65 ÷ 5 x 3 000 – 3 99326. 45 x 2 – 19 x 100 + 527. 35 + 7 000 + 456 + 24428. 5 773 x 100 + 4529. 23 + 10 x 33 x 3 + 10930. 450 x 1 000 + 4531. 3 788 x 100 + 432. 123 x 45 – 12

One day a farmer was driving __________1 _________ 2 to market to _________ 3. It was the eldest of ________4

__________5 and could no longer give ____________6. He stopped to remove some _____________7 from his __________8. Suddenly some ___________9 came flying from a ____________10. ‘Shoo!’ __________11 shouted. He was stung on the hands and __________12. They passed by the wheat ____________13. All of a sudden there was a _____________14 noise. ___________15 up in the sky he saw some shiny _________16. ‘_______!17’ he said to himself. They made a noise like the clanging of thousands of _____________18. One of the mysterious objects landed and out stepped a ____________19 bird with a _____________20 like a duck and a body like an ___________21. It began to _____________22 like a turkey. The goose understood what it said. To the farmer’s surprise his goose began to speak to him. ‘ Look under your left ___________23 and you will find some magic _____________24 in the ___________25 __________26. Do not _____________27 your goose. The old man of the forest will be there. He will tell you what you must do.’ The farmer dug in the soft ground and found the _________28. Filled with ___________29 he ran to the market. He saw the old man of the forest and began to tell him what had happened. ‘ ___________!30’ You must speak quietly,’ said the old man. ‘ Throw the shells into the pond,’ he said. ‘ Now I must __________31 off. Do everything just as I have told you.’ The farmer did as he was told. The water began to churn and bubble. Two large __________32 slid up onto the bank of the pond. In their mouths each had a beautiful jewel. They dropped their jewels and vanished in the murky waters. The farmer never had to worry about money again. He certainly did not sell his wonderful goose.