Problem solving pattern
One elephant has 4 legs, two elephants have 8 legs. How many legs do 5 elephants have?
Count by 4s
1 elephant has 4
2 elephants have 8
3 elephants have 12
4 elephants have 16
5 elephants have 20
David sees this number pattern. What is the missing number?
10,_______,20, 25 ,30
15
Luis has 6 sets of 10 baseball cards. Efrain has 3 sets of 10 baseball cards.how many baseball cards do they gave in all?
Count by 10s
Luis has 10,20,30,40,50,60 cards
Efrain has 10, 20, 30 cards
60+30=90 cards
Jazmine put 10 cookies each in 4 bags for a bake sale. Julissa put 10 cookies in each of the 3 bags. How many cookies do they have in all?
Count by 10s
10,20,30,40 jazmine has 40 cookies
10,20,30 julissa has 30 cookies
40+30=70 cookies in all
Alyzah has 2 groups of 10 erasers. How many in all?
Count by 10s
10,20
Alyzah has 20 erasers
Erick is thinking of a number in the next pattern 50,45,40,35. What's the number?
30
Eduardo is stacking books. There are 5 books in the first stack. 10 in the second stack. The third stack has 15 books. The pattern continues. How man6 books will be in the next stack?
Count by 5s
20 books.
2 groups of 10 spiders. How many spiders in all.
Count by 10s
10,20
20 spiders
Sarah has 4 groups of 10 tennis balls. How many does she have in all?
Count by 10s
10,20,30,40
Sarah has 40 tennis balls
Gabriel has groups of 10 pennies. Gabriel counts 40, but he has 6 more stacks to count. How many pennies does he have?
Count by 10s
40,50,60,70,80,90,100
Gabriel has 100 pennies
Gerardo collected 8 jump ropes. Valeria collected 6 jump ropes. Jonas collected 5 cans. How many jump ropes did they collect in all?
8+6+5=19 jump ropes
3 groups of 5 turtles. How many in all?
5, 10, 15
15 turtles
Alizon has 5 groups of 5 grapes in, how many does she have
Count by 5s
5,10,15,20,25
Alizon has 25 grapes
Lucia is looking at a map of the desert. She knows that each finger width is about 10 miles. How many miles will she count if she uses 7 finger widths?
Count by 10s
10,20,30,40,50,60,70
70 miles
Adolfo collected how many inches of snow fell in each month. Continue the pattern. How many fell in January?
November-14 inches
December-16 inches
January-________inches
February 20 inches
Count by 2s
18 inches in January
Sydney has 6 bunches of grapes. Each bunch has 10 grapes. How many grapes does Sydney have in all?
Count by 10s
10,20,30,40,50,60
60 grapes in all
Evelyn has 3 groups of 10 markers. How many does ehe have in all?
Count by 10s
10,20,30
Evelyn has 30 markers
Santiago thinks of the number pattern 15, 20, 25, 30. He continues this pattern. What will be the next four numbers?
Counting by 5s
35, 40, 45, 50
Meagan has 6 groups of 5 stuffed animals. How many stuffed animals does she have in all?
Count by 5s
5,10,15,20,25,30
Meagan has 30 stuffed animals
Christian organized his pencils in groups of 5. He has 3 groups of 5 pencils. How many pencils does he have?
Count by 5s
5, 10, 15
Christian has 15 pencils
Annabel has 6 groups of 2 minion erasers. How many does she have in all
Count by 6s
6, 12
12 in all