Choosing Operations
Choose which operation you would use to solve:
Walter puts 56 pieces of candy into bowls. He puts 8 pieces of candy into each bowl. How many bowls does Walter use?
Division
÷
A number sentence is shown below.
3 × 5 ____ 2 = 13
Which symbol goes into the ____ to make the number sentence true?
-
Elizabeth separates 28 blocks into equal groups with none left over. How many groups can Elizabeth make?
Write and solve a number sentence that could be used to show how Elizabeth divides the cards.
28 ÷ 2 = 14
28 ÷ 14 = 2
28 ÷ 7 = 4
28 ÷ 4 = 7
Mr. Smith divides a group of students of 48 students into 6 equal teams. How many students does Mr. Smith place in each team?
8 students
Choose which operation you would use to solve:
A school is collecting school supplies. 4 classes have each donated 8 school supplies. How many school supplies have been collected in all?
Multiplication
×
A number sentence is shown below.
6 ÷ 2 ____ 7 = 21
Which symbol goes into the ____ to make the number sentence true?
×
Derek has 5 packages of colored pencils. Each package has 11 colored pencils. He gives 4 colored pencils to his friend. How many colored pencils does Derek have left?
Write and solve a number sentence you could use to solve this problem.
5 × 11 - 4 = c
c = 51 colored pencils
Richard and Tyrone help fix a shed. They are buying 8 boxes of screws for $4 each. Richard and Tyrone split the cost equally between the 2 of them when checking out. How much does each pay?
$16
Choose which 2 operations you would use to solve:
Quincy is buying a pet fish. He needs to buy items for his fish at the pet store. Quinn buys a fish bowl and 2 cans of food for $64. The fish bowl costs $40. Each can of food costs the same amount. What is the price of 1 can of food?
- then ÷
Scarlett wants to buy a dollhouse that costs $80. She has saved $15 from doing her chores. She has saved $25 from babysitting. Which number sentence correctly shows whether Scarlett has saved enough money to buy the dollhouse?
A. 15 × 25 > 80
B. 15 + 25 < 80
C. 15 × 25 = 80
D. 15 + 25 > 80
B) 15 + 25 < 80
Jeremy bought three 20-pound bags of cat food. He used 30 pounds to feed his cat in one week. How many pounds of cat food does Jeremy have left?
Write and solve a number sentence that could be used for this word problem.
3 × 20 - 30 = f
f = 30 pounds
During the first 5 hours of a thunderstorm, a weather station recorded 3 inches of rain each hour. Before the thunderstorm ended, 7 more inches of rain fell. How many inches of rain fell?
22 inches of rain
Choose which 2 operations you would use to solve:
River has 7 packages of erasers. Each package has 9 erasers. Then, she buys 10 more erasers. How many erasers does River have now?
× then +
Finn bought 5 boxes of books. There were 6 books in each box. Desiree bought 3 boxes of books. There were 11 books in each box. Desiree compares the number of books she bought to the number of books Scott bought using the statement below.
5 × 6 ____ 3 × 11
Which symbol should Desiree put in the blank to make the statement true?
<
Rebecca and Lila are picking strawberries from the local farm. Rebecca picked 10 strawberries and Lila picked 25 strawberries. Rebecca and Lila wanted to pick a total of 50 strawberries. How many more strawberries do they still need to pick?
Write and solve a number sentence that could be used for this problem.
50 - 10 - 25 = s
s = 15 strawberries
Charlotte and Greg are stacking packs of juice boxes into a truck to send to school. Each pack has 7 juice boxes. They stack 10 boxes of juice boxes on each of the 5 different trucks. How many juice boxes do they pack onto the trucks in all?
350 juice boxes