Multiplication
Division
Story Problems
Which Story Fits?
SURPRISE!
100
12 x 9
108
100
Divide 36 by 6
6
100
A farmer had 10 packs of seeds. Each pack had 8 seeds in it. How many seeds did the farmer have in all?
80 seeds!
100
10 x 5 A. Ms. S. has 10 books she needs to give to her 5 students. How many books does each student get? B. Ms. S. has 10 students and each student had 50 books. How many books are there in all? C. Ms. S. has 10 students. Each student has 5 books. How many books are there in all?
C.
100
Solve both of these problems: A. 20 x 9 B. 105 divided by 7
A. 180 B. 15
200
400 x 6
2,400
200
Divide 90 by 10
9
200
Mr. Johnson needs to unpack 8 boxes of cookies. Each box has 30 cookies in it. How many cookies will Mr. Johnson unpack in all?
240 cookies!
200
45 divided by 9 A. I have 45 bracelets I want to give to 9 of my friends. How many bracelets will each friend get? B. I had 45 bracelets and gave 9 of them to my friend. How many bracelets do I have left? C. Each of my 45 friends have 9 bracelets. How many bracelets do they have all together?
A.
200
Write a story for this problem: 30 x 5
*Multiple Answers*
300
80 x 13
1,040
300
Divide 90 by 8
11 R 2
300
8 x 3= ? How is this answer different from the answer from the "200" category (8 x 30)? Why do you think that is?
24 It is different from 240 because there is a zero after the "3" in "30", so I can put a zero after the "24" because of the POWER OF TENS!
300
30 divided by 6 A. Luke has 30 cupcakes. He gave 6 cupcakes to his friend. How many cupcakes does he have left? B. Luke has 30 cupcakes. He wants to put the same number of cupcakes in 6 bags. How many cupcakes go into each bag? C. Luke places 6 cupcakes in each bag, and there are 30 bags. How many cupcakes does Luke have?
B.
300
Write a story for this problem: 92 divided by 7
*Multiple answers*
400
25 x 13
325
400
Divide 73 by 6
12 R 1
400
Candy comes in small packages of 10 and boxes of 100. On the store shelf, there are 3 packages and 6 boxes. How many candy bars are on the shelf?
630 candy bars!
400
180 divided by 4= *You must solve the problem too! A. Josh has 4 magazines and 108 boxes. He wants to split the magazines up evenly. How many magazines does he put in each box? B. Josh's 4 friends all have 108 magazines. How many magazines do his friends have in all? C. Josh had 108 magazines. He had 4 boxes he wanted to put the magazines into evenly. How many magazines go in each box?
C. 45
400
You have 37 pennies and 4 piggy banks. You want to put the same number of pennies in each piggy bank. How many pennies will you put in each bank?
9 pennies!
500
304 x 15
4,560
500
Divide 324 by 8
40 R 4
500
Ms. S. is giving away her collection of 30 pieces of candy to 4 of her friends. If she plans to divide the collection evenly, how many pieces of candy will each friend receive?
7 pieces of candy!
500
51 x 17= *You must solve the problem too! A. An elementary school has 51 classrooms. There are 17 students in each classroom. How many students are there in all? B. An elementary school has 51 students. There are 17 classrooms. If I split the students up evenly, how many students go to each classroom? C. There are 17 students in a classroom. There are 51 textbooks. How many textbooks does each student get?
A. 867
500
A baker has 16 packs of sprinkles. Each pack has 23 sprinkles. Part A. How many sprinkles in total does the baker have? Part B. The baker wants to set up 124 sugar cookies on shelves with 4 cookies on each shelf. How many shelves of cookies does the baker need to set up?
Part A. 368 sprinkles Part B. 31 shelves
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