Word Problems
Jaxon has 982 pounds of grain. He feeds 240 pounds to his pigs and 460 to his cows. How much grain does he have left?
282 pounds of grain left
Mrs. Adams painted 1/2 of her page. Mrs. Davis painted 3/4 of her page. Did they paint the same amount?
No
Thayer drew a circle with 8 equal parts. He left 3 parts unshaded. Write a comparison to show if his circle had more shaded or unshaded parts.
Unshaded Shaded
3/8 < 5/8
Draw one shape that is a quadrilateral and one shape that is not a quadrilateral. List the attributes of the shapes.
One shape should have 4 sides and the other should not. Teacher checks the attributes.
What is a unit fraction? Give two examples.
One piece of a whole
Nadia picked 48 cherries on Monday. She picked 38 cherries Tuesday. She needs 130 cherries for the cherry pie. How many more cherries does she need to pick?
44 more cherries
Are 3/9 and 1/3 equivalent? Show a butterfly for evidence.
Adan cleaned 2/7 of the room. Allison cleaned 2/5 of the room. Write a comparison to show who decorated more of the room.
Adam Allison
2/7 < 2/5
Give two similarities and two differences of a rhombus and a square.
Similar
-quadrilaterals
-all equal sides
-two pairs of parallel sides
-both are parallelograms
Different
-a square has right angles
-a rhombus has acute and obtuse angles
-a rhombus is not a rectangle
Draw the fraction 7/12 as a model and on a numberline.
Teacher check
Lyric has four horses. Each one eats 4 pounds of oats, twice a day. How many pounds of oats does she need to feed her horses for 3 days?
96 pounds of oats
I have 2/4. Find an equivalent sixteenth.
8/16
Mrs. Adams has two pies. She had an apple pie sliced into sixths and a chocolate pie sliced into fourths. Mrs. Adams gave Mrs. West five slices of apple pie and Mrs. Davis three slices of chocolate pie. Who got more pie? Draw a butterfly for proof.
Mrs. West received more pie.
Draw a rectangle and write all of its attributes.
-4 sides
-2 pairs of parallel sides
-2 pairs of equal length sides
-4 rights angles
Write 12/4 as a whole number and draw a model.
3
Ali and Elisabeth are picking flowers. Ali picked 382 flowers in a day. Elisabeth picked 12 flowers each day for 12 days. How many more flowers did Ali pick than Elisabeth?
238 more flowers
Write the whole number 3 as a fraction. Show a model and equation to prove.
3/1 3÷1=3
12/4 12÷4=3
6/2 6÷2=3
etc.
4/7 3/4 1/3
Put the fractions in order least to greatest
1/3, 4/7, 3/4
Sadie has a shape that has 4 sides and 2 pairs of parallel sides. Name all of the shapes Sadie could have.
-parallelogram
-rhombus
-square
-rectangle
Claire cut her pie into eighths and ate 3 slices. Isaac cut his pie into fourths and ate 1 slice. Who ate more pie?
Claire
Mrs. West has 278 erasers. She gives 38 erasers to Mrs. Adams. She splits the rest evenly among 8 students. How many erasers did each student get?
30 erasers
Write a fraction equivalent to 2/3. Show a butterfly for evidence.
4/6
6/9
8/12
16/24
etc.
2/3 5/6 1/8
Put the fractions in order least to greatest
1/8, 2/3, 5/6
Create a venn diagram comparing two shapes and their attributes. There must be at least two attributes in each section of the venn diagram.
Teacher check
Mrs. Adams has 986 cupcakes.
-347 are peanut butter
-402 are oreo.
The rest are chocolate. How many chocolate cupcakes does Mrs. Adams have?
237 chocolate cupcakes