Santa's Elves
Wrap up the boxes
O little town of Bethlehem
Christmas movies..
Cookies and Carols
100
Santa's elves are wrapping gifts. Each elf wraps 40 gifts a night. If there are 50 elves at work, how many gifts are wrapped each night?
40 x 50 = 2000 gifts
100
Use box multiplication to multiply 25 x 36
25 x 36 = 900
100
If there were 26 constellations visible in the sky on Christmas night and each constellation had 140 visible stars, how many total stars could be seen by Mary and Joseph above the stable?
26 x 140 = 3640 stars
100
The polar express has 42 compartments with 96 passengers in each compartment. How many total passengers?
42 x 96 = 4032 passengers
100
Mrs. Claus bakes cookies throughout the Christmas season without sleeping at all. If she bakes non stop from Dec 1 through Dec 24, how many hours does she bake for ?
24 x 24 = 576 hours
200
Santa's elves use 262 feet of ribbon to wrap gifts each night. How much ribbon do they use in one week?
262 x 7 = 1834 feet of ribbon
200
Use box multiplication to multiply 78 x 89
78 x 89 = 6942
200
The area of the city of Bethlehem today is about 4 square miles. What would be the length of each side of a square with the same area? What would be the perimeter of that square?
2 miles, 8 miles
200
A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of the most popular Christmas movies. It runs for 25 minutes. If every student in Mrs. Paye's class (22 students) watches the movie this season, how many minutes would they have spent watching this movie? Extra pat on the back: Express as hours and minutes
22 x 25 = 550 minutes 9 hours and 10 minutes
200
Mrs. Paye is working at a Christmas fair. Her booth uses a balloon game, with a rectangle of balloons that people throw darts at. If she has 23 balloons down and 46 balloons across in her rectangle, how many total balloons are in the rectangle?
23 x 46 = 1058 balloons
300
Santa's elves are going to surprise Santa by putting in new plushy carpet in Santa's house. Santa's house is huge rectangle, 200 feet by 97 feet. How much carpet do the elves need to buy?
97 x 200 = 19400 square-feet
300
Use box multiplication to multiply 324 x 48
15552
300
There are about 25000 people living in Bethlehem today. If each person in Bethlehem eats 60 pieces of Baklava over this Christmas season, how many total pieces are eaten this season?
25000 x 60 = 150000 pieces of Baklava
300
A theater is showing your favorite Christmas movie. It's a little crowded though and every seat is taken! There are 82 rows of seats in the theater and each row has 21 people. How many people are watching your favorite movie?
82 x 21 = 1722 people
300
St. Michael's school is selling cookies to help the needy over Christmas season. If each box of cookies contains 24 cookies and they sell 97 boxes, how many total cookies have they sold?
24 x 97 = 2328 cookies
400
Santa's elves are buying Christmas lights for elf city. If they buy 1200 packs with 36 lights in each pack, how many total lights do they buy?
36 x 1200 = 43200 lights
400
Use box multiplication to multiply 99 x 99
99 x 99 = 9801
400
The magi might have travelled by camel and covered 20 miles each day of their journey. If they travelled for 53 days, how far did they come to see the baby Jesus?
53 x 20 = 1060 miles
400
If each house in Who-ville puts up 223 lights this Christmas season and there are 342 houses in Who-ville, how many total lights will be strung up in Who-ville?
223 x 342 = 76266 lights
400
St. Michael's school is selling cookies to help the needy over Christmas season. If each box of cookies contains 24 cookies and they sell 97 boxes, how many total cookies have they sold? If each cookie has 12 sprinkles, how many sprinkles have they sold?
27936 sprinkles
500
Santa's sleigh travels at 178 miles per hour. If Santa travels for 138 hours to go around the earth on Christmas night, about how far is it to go around the earth?
180 x 140 = 25200 miles
500
Use box multiplication to multiply 326 x 423
326 x 423 = 137898
500
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is built over the place where Jesus was born. If 1,000,000 people visit the church each year, how many people have visited by the end of 2014, since the year 2000 (including the year 2000).
15 x 1,000,000 = 15,000,000 or 15 million people
500
If mean Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful life, loaned money to 3206 families and each family owed him an average of $1233 how much money is owed to Mr. Potter?
3206 x 1233 = $3952998
500
Nolan's Christmas bakery is selling chocolate chip cookies for $15 per box and smore's cookies for $12 per box. If they sell 27 chocolate-chip boxes and 35 Smores' boxes, how much money do they make all together?
15 x 27 = 405 12 x 35 = 420 405 + 420 = 825 Total money earned is $825
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