Basic Multiplication
Fernanda has 9 baskets. There are 0 muffins in each basket. How many muffins are there in all the baskets?
What is 0 muffins?
Harrison puts 42 raisins into groups to go on top of muffins. He wants each muffin to have the same number of raisins. He is making 6 muffins. How many raisins go in each group?
What is 7 raisins?
Maddox is going to plant apple trees in his yard. He has 32 trees and wants to plant them in equal rows. Name a combination that he can use to place his trees. He doesn't want to make 1 row of 32 trees.
Answers will vary.
Harry is trying to remember his multiplication rules. What is the rule when you multiply by zero?
What is anything times zero equals zero?
Harrison collects toy cars. Last year he collected 136 toy cars. So far this year he has collected 78 cars. How many cars does he have now?
What 214 cars?
Harry gave 5 sheets of green drawing paper to each of 3 friends. How many sheets of drawing paper did Harry give out?
What is 15 sheets?
The 15 students in Ms. Villanueva's class are forming equal groups. Each group will study a different animal: lions, tigers, and bears. How many students should be in each group?
What is 5 students?
Mackenzie needs to put her books in her bookcase. She wants each shelf to have the same amount of books. She has 24 books and her bookcase has 4 shelves. How many books should she put on each shelf?
What are 6 books?
When you are multiplying by 5, what will your number always end with?
What are 5 or 0?
Fernanda pickes 152 cherries. She used 61 cherries to make her pie. How many cherries does she have left?
What is 91 cherries?
NBES is having a bake sale. There were 6 plates on the table. Each plate has 4 cupcakes. How many cupcakes are for sale?
What is 24 cupcakes?
Ellen collects stickers. She has 36 stickers. She put the stickers on 9 sheets with an equal number of stickers on each sheet. How many stickers does she put on each sheet?
What is 4 stickers?
NBES was having a plant sale. There were 11 trays of plants. Each tray had 3 plants. How many plants were at each table?
What are 33 plants?
What is the rule when multiplying by 1?
What is anything times 1 is the other number?
Aubree needs $125 to buy a rare fish for her new fish tank. So far, she has saved $82. How much more does she need to save?
What is $43?
Aubree found seashells on the beach. She put 6 seashells in each bag and filled up 4 bags. How many seashells did she collect?
What is 24 seashells?
Connor has a piece of blue yarn that is 21 inches long. He cuts the yarn into 3 equal pieces. How long is each piece?
What is 7 inches?
North Buncombe 3rd graders went on a river trip. There were 4 rafts with 7 people on each raft. How many kids went on the river trip?
What are 28 people?
Sing (or tell me the numbers) me the 3´s song.
What is 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30?
Mrs. Villanueva's class is collecting pennies for the Penny Drive. Last week they collected 347 pennies. This week they have collected 739 pennies. How many pennies do they have so far?
What is 1,086 pennies?
Nolan completed 9 math problems each night for 6 nights. How many math problems did he complete in all?
What is 54 problems?
Lily wants to put 24 plants in the rows of her garden. She wants to put the same number of plants in each row. If she makes 6 rows, how many plants will be in each row?
What are 4 plants?
Nolan has a book to display his Pokemon cards. Each page will display 6 cards and he has 8 pages. How many cards will fit in this book?
What are 48 cards?
Sing (or tell me the numbers) me the 4's song.
What is 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40?
Lily wants to share her candy with herself and 3 friends. If she has 24 pieces of candy, how much candy will each person get?
What are 6 pieces?