What's in a name
What does each mean in a word problem?
Equal Groups
What type of problem can you solve drawing pictures
Multiplication or division!
Oliver's mom bought 12 boxes of juice for the soccer team. Each box contained six juices. How many juices did Oliver's mom buy?
72
A bookstore packed up 35 books to send to buyers. They put seven books in each box. If each buyer receives one box, how many buyers will receive books?
5
Is 35 even or odd, and how do you know?
Odd, the number in the ones place is odd (5).
What does equal groups mean?
Multiplication or Division
What strategy involves breaking a number apart into two separate numbers?
Break apart by place value or partial products strategy
There are 24 chocolate candies in a bag. How many candies would be in four bags?
96
Mr. McMillan purchased 18 basketballs for the basketball league. Each team received 6 balls. Using the model below, write a division equation, and determine how many teams there are in the basketball league.
18 ➗ 6 = 3
There are 3 teams in the league.
Write all the possible multiplication and division equations for the numbers 4, 7, and 28.
4 x 7 = 28
7 x 4 = 28
28 ➗ 4 = 7
28 ➗ 7 = 4
What is a product?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
This strategy can work if at least one factor is even
Doubling and halving or factor fiddling!
A sports store sells packages of golf balls. Each package contains 36 golf balls. How many golf balls are in four packages?
144
At a school, 21 blocks are put away on 7 shelves. How many blocks will go on each shelf?
3
Out of the following sequence, which numbers are odd: 15, 20, 37, 32, 28, 11? Bonus: put them in order from least to greatest.
11, 15, 37
What is a quotient?
The answer to a division problem.
Multiplication is just...
Repeated addition
Angie has 12 marbles. Her friend Jack has twice the number of marbles she has. How many marbles does Jack have?
24
Sarah drew 63 hearts in her journal. She drew them in an array, and there were 7 in each row. How many columns were there in her array?
9
What expression does 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 represent?
7 x 7
What should you think when you see more than one key word in a problem?
That there is likely more than one step in the problem!
Division is just...
Repeated subtraction
A hotel has eight floors in the building. If each floor has 26 rooms, how many rooms are there in the hotel?
208
There are 40 Popsicles that have to be packed in boxes to sell. If there are fixed boxes, how many Popsicles can fit in each box?
8
Double and Twice both mean to do this.
Multiply by 2.