Area
Word Problems
Perimeter
Word Problems
Mystery!!
100
How do you find the area of a shape?

L x W

100

Bryan is having a pizza party. He has 36 slices of pizza. He has 9 plates. He puts the same number of slices on each plate. How many slices of pizza are on each plate?

4 slices. 

100

How do you find the perimeter of a shape? 

Add up all the sides. 

100

A class has 15 students and each student has 3 pencils. Which math sentence can be used to find how many pencils are in the class in total?

3 x 15= 45 pencils

100

What words can you see in addition word problems? 

total, altogether, in all, combined. 

200

Which part of the shape is area measuring?

Inside

200

A farmer planted 25 rows of tomatoes, with each row containing 30 tomato plants. How many tomato plants did the farmer plant in total?

750 tomato plants. 

200

Which part of the shape is perimeter measuring? 

The outside. 

200

In gym class, Carl jumped a distance of 12 feet for the long jump. Todd jumped a distance of 4 feet. Which statement below is true?

A. Carl jumped 8 times as far as Todd

B. Carl jumped 3 times as far as Todd

C. Todd jumped 3 times as far as Carl

D. Todd jumped 8 times as far as Carl

B. Carl jumped 3 times as far as Todd

200

What are the 3 steps to solving a word problem?

Plan, solve, check

300

The length of a square is 4 inches. The width of a square is 4 inches. What is the area of the square? 

4 x 4= 16 inches

300

A class has 30 students, and each student has 12 pencils. How many pencils does the class have in total?

360 pencils. 

300

The length of a rectangle is 12 inches. The width of the rectangle is 3 inches. What is the perimeter?

30 inches. 

300

An ice cream truck sold 24 cups of chocolate ice cream. It also sold 3 times as many cups of vanilla ice cream as it did chocolate. How many cups of vanilla ice cream did the truck sell?

They sold 72 cups of vanilla ice cream. 

300

What words can you see in a multiplication word problems? 

times, double, groups of, equal groups. 

400

The length of a rectangle is 58 inches. The width of the rectangle is 35 inches. What is the area of the rectangle?

58 x 35= 2,030 inches

400

A small restaurant has 5 tables and 30 chairs. If they arrange the chairs so that each table has the same number of chairs, which math sentence can be used to find the number of chairs at each table?

A. 30 × 5 = 150

B. 30 + 5 = 35

C. 30 ÷ 5 = 6

D. 30 - 5 = 25

C. 30 ÷ 5 = 6

400

The length of a rectangle is 58 inches. The width of the rectangle is 35 inches. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

186 inches.

400

Olivia took 4 friends to a local farm to pick apples. They picked 40 apples in all. How many apples will each one get if they decided to share them equally? 

They would get 10 apples each.
400

What is the difference between area and perimeter? 

Area is measuring the inside of an object. Perimeter is measuring the outside of an object. 

500

The area of a rectangle is 36 inches. The length of the rectangle is 18 inches. What is the width of the rectangle? 

2 inches. 36 divided by 18. 

500

At a football game, 40 programs were sold after the game had started. This was 5 times as many as were sold before the game started. How many programs were sold before the game had started?

40 divided by 5. 8 programs were sold before the game had started. 

500

The length of a rectangle is 12 inches. The width of the rectangle is 7 inches. What is the perimeter? 

38 inches. 

500

Samantha baked 16 chocolate cupcakes for her 4 children. If the cupcakes are shared equally between the children, how many cupcakes will each child get? 

4 cupcakes each. 

500

What words can you see in division word problems?

share, groups of, equal groups. 
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