Word Problems Operations
A gardener is planting rows of flowers. Each row has the same number of flowers. If the gardener plants several rows, what is the total number of flowers planted?
What is Multiplication
A chef bakes 8 trays of cupcakes. Each tray holds 12 cupcakes. After baking, the chef packs all the cupcakes equally into 6 boxes. How many cupcakes are in each box?
What is 16 cupcakes?
A teacher has 53 pencils and wants to put them into boxes that hold 6 pencils each. How many full boxes can the teacher fill?
What is 8 full boxes?
Solving using any strategy:
156 x 42
What is 6552?
Solving using any strategy:
767 / 23
What is 33 R 8
A baker has baked a batch of cookies. She wants to pack them equally into several boxes. How many cookies will go into each box?
What is division?
A school orders 15 packs of pencils. Each pack contains 20 pencils. The school distributes all the pencils equally among 10 classrooms. How many pencils does each classroom get?
What is 30 pencils?
A bus can seat 40 passengers. There are 123 passengers waiting to board. How many buses are needed to seat all passengers if no one can be left standing?
What is 4 buses?
Solving using any strategy:
89 x 765
What is 68, 085
Solving using any strategy:
668 / 33
What is 20 R 8
A teacher is organizing students into teams for a project. Each team has the same number of students. If the teacher forms several teams, what is the total number of students participating?
What is multiplication?
A farmer has 9 baskets of apples. Each basket contains 25 apples. The farmer sells 7 apples from each basket. How many apples does the farmer sell in total?
What is 63 apples?
A baker bakes 47 cookies and wants to package them equally into 8 boxes. How many cookies will go into each box if the leftover cookies are shared evenly among the boxes?
What is 5 2/8
Solving using any strategy:
13 x 455
What is 5915?
Solving using any strategy:
714 / 93
What is 7 R 63?
A farmer is splitting a harvest of apples equally into baskets. After filling all the baskets evenly, some apples are left over. How can you determine how many apples are in each basket and how many are left over?
What is division, and interpreting the remainder
A factory produces 120 boxes of toys. Each box contains 30 toys. The factory ships the boxes equally to 8 stores. How many toys does each store get?
What is 450 toys per store?
A factory produces 289 gadgets and packs them in crates holding 12 gadgets each. How many completely full crates can be made?
What is 24 full crates?
Solving using any strategy:
25 x 951
What is 23775?
Solving using any strategy:
5691 / 41
What is 138 R 33
A library has 47 several shelves, and each shelf has 134 books . The librarian wants to find out how many books are in the entire library. How can the librarian figure out the total number of books?
What is multiplication?
6298 books
A factory produces 120 boxes of toys. Each box contains 30 toys. The factory ships the boxes equally to 8 stores. How many toys does each store get?
What is 450 toys per store?
A school rents vans that seat 15 students each. There are 154 students going on a field trip. How many vans should the school rent to make sure every student has a seat?
What is 11 vans?
Solving using any strategy:
37 x 824
What is 30,488?
Solving using any strategy:
7512 / 29
What is 259 R 1