Multiplication
Jim purchased 5 packages of muffins. Each package contained 3 muffins. How many muffins did Jim purchase?
15 Muffins
There are 12 cookies on the counter. If you are sharing the cookies equally among three bags, how many cookies will go in each bag?
4 cookies
A rectangle has an area of 56 square feet and a length that is 8 feet long. Write a division equation to find the width, using a letter for the unknown.
56 / 8 = w
A train makes 9 stops each day. How many days will it take for the train to make 63 stops?
A family took a road trip. They drove a total of 560 miles over three days. They drove
123 miles on day one
245 miles on day two
The rest of the miles on day three
How many miles did the family drive on day three?
192 miles
Sonya earns $7 a week pulling weeds. After 5 weeks of work, how much money has Sonya earned?
$35
The bag has 36 hair clips, and Laura and her friend want to share them equally. How many hair clips will each person receive?
13 Hair Clips
Chantelle has 56 stickers. She will give all of the stickers to 8 friends. Each friend will receive the same number of stickers. Write an equation that will help Chantelle decide how many stickers, n, to give to each friend?
56 / 8 = n
OR
8 x n = 56
You have 16 jellybeans. How many friends will get jellybeans, if you give them 4 jellybeans each?
4 Friends
Movie tickets cost $8 each. Allie’s sister bought 2 tickets on Monday and 2 more on Tuesday. Write an equation that can be used to show how much Allie’s sister spent on movie tickets altogether.
(8 x 2) + (8 x 2) = T
or
8 x 4 = T
There are 3 bags with 6 plums in each bag. How many plums are there in all?
18 Plums
Max the monkey loves bananas. Molly, his trainer, has 24 bananas. If she gives Max 4 bananas each day, how many days will the bananas last?
6 days
What value for M makes this equation true?
M ÷ 7 = 7
Oak Elementary has 24 third graders. They are taking a field trip to a museum and want to have students in equal groups during the tour. Groups cannot be smaller than 2 students and not larger than 8 students. What size groups could they make?
2, 3, 4, 6, 8
A store has 5 boxes of baseballs. There are 8 baseballs in each box. The store give 15 of these baseballs to a team. Write an equation to find m, the number of baseballs the store now has.
5 x 8 -15 = m
Mrs. Simpson has 144 pieces of paper. If each folder needs 12 pieces of paper, how many folders can you fill up?
12 Folders
If 32 plums are to be packed 4 to a bag, then how many bags are needed?
8 Bags
Chloe baked 182 cookies. She baked 67 on Monday, 53 on Tuesday and the rest on Wednesday. Which equation shows how many cookies Chloe baked on Wednesday?
67 + 53 + W = 182
or
182 - 67 - 53 = W
Marissa read a total of 876 pages in three months. In the first month, she read 535 pages. In the second month, she read 256 pages. How many pages did Marissa read in the third month?
85 pages
Ryan’s book on dinosaurs has 632 pages. He reads 8 pages of his book each night. After 6 days, how many pages of his book does Ryan have left to read?
584 pages
Mr. Jason can pick 60 apples a day. How many apples can he pick in a week?
420 apples
If 72 apples are arranged into equal rows of 6 apples, how many rows will there be?
12 Rows
John spent $36 on fruit. He bought 3 crates of pineapples and 1 crate of mangoes. The pineapples cost $10 per crate. Write an equation showing the cost of mangoes using a letter as the unknown number.
3 x 10 + m = $36
Jolene set a goal of raising $1,000 for an animal shelter. She raised $477 by having a car wash and $365 by selling candy. How much more money does she need to raise to reach her goal?
$158
Laura has a 108 inch ribbon, but she needs to divide it up into 12-inch pieces for her art project. How many 12-inch pieces can she make?
9 12-inch pieces