Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Tori bought some packages of pens. They came in packs with 6 pends per pack. Which number below could be the amount of pens she bought?
A- 18 pens
B- 26 pens
C- 44 pens
D- 46 pens
A- 18 pens
There are 773 people going on a white water rafting trip. Each raft holds 6 people. How many rafts will they need for everyone to go rafting?
129 rafts
733 / 6 = 128 R 5
Since you need a raft for everyone to go, use the remainder to bump up the number of rafts needed.
Mrs. Smith is going to split some pieces of string into equal pieces for an art project. Each piece of string needs to be a 2/8 of a foot. Which fraction is equal to 2/8?
A- 8/2
B- 2/4
C- 6/12
D- 1/4
D- 1/4
Each lap around the track is 1 kilometer. Robert ran 5 laps. How many meters did he run altogether?
1km = 1,000 m
5,000 meters
Write the number 428,537 in number name (word form).
Four hundred twenty-eight thousand, five hundred thirty-seven
Which statement matches the problem below?
3 x 7 = 21
A- 3 plus 7 is 21
B- 21 times as many as 3 is 7
C- 7 is 3 times as many as 21
D- 7 times as many as 3 is 21
D- 7 times as many as 3 is 21
Ellis was writing equations, but she left off the operation sign in the equation below. Which sign completes the equation?
8,900 = 890 ____ 10
x
890 x 10 = 8,900
8/9 - 5/9 = 3/9 of a liter left
Marco made circle shaped cookies. He divided one into 4 equal sized pieces. What would the measure of the angle of each piece of cookie be?
90 degrees
Circle = 360 degrees
360 / 4 = 90
What is 82,479 rounded to the nearest thousand?
82,000
The number of fish that Max and his family caught is a prime number between 9 and 24. How many fish could they have caught?
11, 13, 17, 19, 23
Alice is planning on making bracelets to give to her friends. Each bracelet has 47 beads on it. She is making 7 bracelets. How many beads will she use on the bracelets?
329 beads
A scout troop was collecting sticks to roast marshmallows. The scouts measured the sticks. Maxine's stick was 0.47 of a meter, Julie's stick was 0.6 of a meter, and Avery's stick was 0.55 of a meter. Whose stick was the longest?
Julie's stick is the longest
It took Sara 3 hours to complete her homework. She split her time evenly between 4 assignments. How many minutes did she spend on each assignment?
45 minutes
3 hours = 180 minutes
180 minutes / 4 assignments = 45 minutes each
Carlos had 775 baseball cards. He split them evenly among his 8 friends so they each had the same amount. How many cards did each friend get?
Each friend will get 96 baseball cards
775 / 8 = 96 R 7
Since each friend will get the same amount, we drop the remainder.
Juanita collected 233 seashells. She put then in bags of 9 seashells per bag. How many bags did she fill completely?
25 bags
233 / 9 = 25 R 8
*In this case, the question asks how many bags did she fill, so you ignore the remainder.
When rounded to the nearest thousand, the number of people who attended a soccer match was 5,000. Write a number that could be the actual number of people who attended the soccer match.
Any number between 4,500 and 5,449
Lindsey cut a piece of a string into 8 equal sized pieces of her friends. Each friend got a piece that was 5/6 of a meter. How many meters was the string before she cut it?
8 x 5/6 = 40/6 = 6 4/6 = 6 2/3
Mark is putting a poster up in his room. The area of the poster is 144 sq. inches. The width of the poster is 8 inches. What is the length of the poster?
144 / 8 = 18 inches
The garden club had 65 rows of tomato plants, with 87 plants per row. How many tomato plans is that altogether?
5,655 tomato plants
Chloe makes $125 babysitting each week. Andrea makes $170 each week from babysitting. How much more money does Andrea make in 6 weeks?
Andrea makes $270 more than Chloe
Chloe: 125 x 6 = 750
Andrea: 170 x 6 = 1020
1020 - 750 = 270
Kelli spent 18 hours per week practicing for a gymnastics meet. She practiced for 35 weeks. How many hours did she practice in all?
630 hours
Mr. Martinez's class tracked the rainfall and wrote the amount it rained below. Which day did it rain the least?
Monday - 1/4 inch
Tuesday- 2/6 inch
Wednesday- 1/8 inch
Thursday- 4/6 inch
Wednesday
Sam spent 2 hours and 45 minutes this weekend playing soccer and 1 hour and 35 minutes doing chores. How many minutes is that in all?
260 minutes
2 hours = 120 minutes
1 hour = 60 minutes
120 + 45 + 60 + 35 = 260
Big Creek Elementary students collected 42,323 cans in a food drive last year. This year, the students collected 8,513 less cans than last year. How many cans did the students collect this year?
33,810 cans