Brody's Barbie Problems
Joe has 559,283 barbies. Mama only has 16,162. How many barbies does Joe have to lose to have the same amount as Mama?
Use Subtraction!
543,121 Barbies
Kate was counting her Legos. If she had 850,222 blue ones, and 50,222 red ones. How much more blue Legos did she have than red ones?
Subtraction!
800,000 Blue Legos
Big bird has 1,000 hot dogs. He wants to share the thousand hot dogs with Elmo's one hundred friends. How many hot dogs will each person get?
Division!
1000 / 100 = 10 Hot dogs
Marco had $465,684. He bought a new car for $15,680. How much money does he have left?
Subtraction!
$45,004
The Dream Team has 19 desks and they want to make groups of up to 4 desks. How many different combinations can they make?
Division!
4 groups of 4 and 1 group of 3
5 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4
9 groups of 2 and 1 group of 3
and more!
JOHN AND JIM WERE AT A BARBIE COMPETITION AND JOHN HAS 100,000 BARBIES AND JIM HAS 10,000 BARBIES. HOW MANY MORE BARBIES DOES JOHN HAVE THAN JIM?
90,000 Barbies
Bruce has a 10 day salary of $721,121. Then he had a garage sale and made $99,999. How much money did he make in those 10 days?
Addition!
$821,120
Bob has 550,000 bricks. He needed 50,000 to make a dog house. How many bricks does bob have left over?
500,000 Bricks
A camp needs to divide kids into large cabins. There are 1,500 kids attending camp. They have 5 cabins. How many kids will be in each cabin?
Division!
300 kids
The Dream Team has a busy summer! Each of the 19 members of the team travels to 3 different places. How many places did they travel altogether?
Multiplication!
19 x 3 = 57 places
Cookie Monster had some barbies for his friends. He had 15 barbie friends, and each friend got 20 cookies. How many cookies did he give out?
Multiplication!
15 x 20 = 300 Cookies
Bob had 1,220 bags of popcorn. If he ate all of them, how many would he have left?
Subtraction!
0 bags of popcorn
Babe has 80,000 baseball cards. Johnny has 800,000 baseball cards. How many baseball cards do Babe and Johnny have in all?
Addition!
880,000 cards
Melissa was baking brownies for a bake sale. She mad 10 batches of brownies with 12 in each batch. How many brownies did she make in total?
Multiplication!
10 x 12 = 120 brownies
Mrs. Coulouras, Ms. Monson and Mrs. O'Leary LOVE the Dream Team! They each shed 67 tears of joy (and some sadness!) on the last day of school. How many tears did they shed in all?
Addition!
201 tears
Elmo had 1,000 barbies. He wants to give 4 barbies to each of his friends. How many friends does Barbie have?
Division!
1,000 / 4 = 250 Friends
Joe bought 20 boxes of chocolate bars. Each box of chocolate had 80 bars. How many bars did Joe buy?
Multiplication!
20 x 80 = 1, 600 Bars
Elmo has 10 chips and he ate them all and wanted more. He went to the store and bought 9 times as many chips as he ate. How many chips did he buy?
Multiplication!
10 x 9 = 90 Chips
Dana had $658,014. She sold her house for $43,846. How much money does she have now?
Addition!
$701,860
Every member of the Dream Team learned at least 1,001 things this year! How many things did the team learn in all?
Multiplication!
1,001 x 19 = 19, 019 things!