Cooking
Collecting
Powers of 10!
100

It takes 1/2 of a cup of flour to make each cupcake. How many cupcakes can you make if you have 8 cups of flour?

What is 16 cupcakes.

100

Morgan is sorting out her collection of sneakers that she collects. She got a brand new closet organizer that hold 7 pairs of sneakers for each shelf. She has 51 pairs of sneakers in her collection. How many total shelves does she need so each pair has space? Explain what you did with the remainder. 

What is 8 shelves.

Seven shelves will hold 49 but an added shelf is needed for the remaining pairs. (2)

100

Multiply:

53 x 10^2

What is 5,300

200

Londyn has a leftovers from her party. She has one pizza that has 1/3 of the pizza leftover. If they split the pizza evenly, how much of the whole pizza did each of the 4 kids get? Use an equation or drawing to show your thinking. 

What is 1/12 of the pizza. 

200

Ava collects Pokemon cards. she is wanting to put them in protective sleeves that hold 18 cards per sheet. Each pack has 10 cards and Ava got 12 packs of cards for her birthday. If she wants to put all of the new cards in sheets, how many sheets does she need?

7 sheets.

6 full sheets would be needed but with a remained of 12 she'd need another sheet.

200

Multiply:

202 x 10^3

What is 202,000

300

Jason is making BBQ ribs. the recipe calls for 1/5 of a cup brown sugar for each batch of sauce. He has 4 cups of brown sugar. How many batches of sauce can he make? Write an equation to solve your answer. 

20 batches of BBQ Sauce

300

Stephanie collects coins. She has 1,314 coins in all. She has coin holders that hold 25 coins per case. How many cases does she need to hold all of her collection? Show your thinking.

What is 52 r 14...53 holders.

300

Multiply:

2.7 x 10^3

What is 2,700

400

Lucas was shopping for shirts. There was a sale where 6 shirts were $59.94. How much did each shirt cost? Show your thinking and label your answer.

What is $9.99 per shirt. 

500

Savannah got all of the problems correct:

35 x 10^1= 350; 35 x 10^2= 3,500; 35 x 10^3= 35,000 and 35 x 10^4 = 350,000

Describe what is happening to the value of the digits and to the number of 0's. Explain your thinking. 

Answers will vary 

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