Vocabulary
Multiplication/Division word problems
Division
Multiplication or Division?
Multiplication
100

What is the answer to a multiplication problem?

Product

100

Kingsland is planning a school field trip. There are 450 students going and each bus holds 90 students. How many busses do they need to take?

5 Busses

100

168 ÷  8 = 

21

100

Erica bought 249 candies and put 3 pieces of candy in one cup. How many cups will she need to use all of the candy?

Is this Multiplication or Division? Solve the problem. 

Division

83 cups

100

23 x 43

989

200

What are the numbers called that you multiply together? Think of the rainbow.

Factors

200

39 athletes ran 8 laps each. How many laps were run in total by the athletes? 


39 x 8 = 312 laps

200

5,950 / 70

85

200

Jolene and Brynne sold 343 tickets for $45.00 a tickets. How much money did they make? 

Is this Multiplication or Division?

Multiplication

$15,435

200

Find the product of 2397 and 10

23,970

300

What is the answer to a division problem?

Quotient

300

At a ten pin bowling alley, there are 16 lanes. Each lane has 24 pins. The manager orders another 19 packs of pins; each pack having 3 pins. How many pins will there be altogether?

441 pins


300

6,666 / 66

101

300

Alex worked for 237 days this year and worked a total of 1,422 hours. How many hours did he work each day?

Is this Multiplication or Division? Solve. 

Division

6 hours. 

300

15 x 521

7,815

400

True or False: Division is the inverse (opposite) operation of multiplication.

True.

400

MJ scored 35, 26, 15, 42 and 27 points in the last 5 games of the season. How many points did he average in the last 5 games?

29 points


400

827 / 26

31 R21

400

There were 7,200 baked goods for a bake sale. There were 900 customers who all bought the same amount of baked goods. How many baked goods did each customer buy? 

Is this Multiplication or Division? Solve. 

Division

8 baked goods.

400

Compare using <,>,or =

374 x 4 _____ 243 x 6

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500

If you are looking for the product of an equation, you are doing what?

multiplying

500

Claire has 4543 tickets stored in boxes. If there are 59 boxes, how many go in each box?

77 Tickets
500

260 ÷ 6 = 

43r2

500

Isabelle baked 345 cupcakes for a wedding and each cupcake was 279 calories. How many calories are in the whole batch?

Is this Multiplication or Division? Solve.

Multiplication


96,255 calories.

500

398 x 541

215,318

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