Quantities
$100 | Maria bought 3 notebooks for $2.50 each and a pen for $1.25. What are the known quantities?
3 notebooks
$2.50
$1.25
$100 | Jack ran 2.5 miles each day for 5 days. Which operation should we use?
Each
Multiplication
$100 | A class of 28 students forms groups of 4. What should we be looking for?
Hint: What don't we know?
How many group will there be?
$100 | Sarah has 12 pencils, 3 are red, and she likes ice cream. She gives away 5. What’s irrelevant?
She likes ice cream.
$100 | Anthony has 3× as many marbles as Ben. Ben has 14. Rephrase.
Anthony has 3 times as many marbled as Ben.
$200 | A rectangle has length 8 cm and width 5 cm. What are the quantities given?
8 cm
5cm
$200 | A cake recipe requires ¾ cup sugar and you doubled it. What operation applies?
Doubled
Multiply by 2
$200 | Sam has 5 times as many stickers as Mia, who has 12. What is the problem asking?
How many stickers does Sam have?
$200 | Tom read 30 pages in 2 hours in the library today. What’s extra info?
He read in the library.
$200 | A tank holds 500 L, and 150 L drain out. Restate the problem.
How much was left in the tank?
$300 | Diego weighs 60 kg now; he gains 2 kg per month over 4 months. What quantities do we know?
60 kg
2kg
4 months
$300 | If 15 students share $120 equally, what operation is needed?
Share, equally
Division
$300 | Car travels 60 mi at 30 mph. What is the unit rate?
Hint: The answer is not a unit rate? Well...
How many miles per hour?
How many miles for every 1 hour
$300 | A farmer has 20 cows, 5 are black, his dog is brown. How many cows left if 8 sold?
His dog is brown.
$300 | A book costs $12, you buy x books for $96. Rewrite in your own words.
How many books did you buy?
$400 | A bag contains 12 red marbles and x blue marbles. What are the knowns and unknown?
12 red marbles
x blue marbles
$400 | A shirt costs $30, tax is 8%. What operation finds total cost?
tax, total cost
Multiply, addition
$400 | You saved $15 of $50. What question should you answer?
How much money was not saved?
$400 | There are 8 apples in a basket and the basket is 3 feet wide. If 3 are eaten, how many remain?
The width of the basket.
$400 | The temperature drops 5°F every hour. It’s 80°F now. What is it in 6 hours? Reword.
How many degrees will it be 6 hours from now?
$500 | Jenny drove 20 miles each hour for 16 hours?
What are the given quantities?
20 miles
1 hour
16 hours
$500 | 3x = 45, what operation isolates x?
isolate
division
$500 | A tank fills at 20 liters/hour, and it’s empty now. What is the unknown?
How many liters can the tank hold?
How many hours did it take for the tank to empty?
$500 | Mike jogged 2 miles, watched TV, then ran another 3. How many miles did he run total?