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100

12 x 4000 =

What is 48,000

100

Dale collected 235 pecans. Penny collected 876 pecans. Which is the best estimate of how many more pecans Penny collected than Dale?

What is 640 PECANS

100

Carl is saving money to buy a new video game. If he collects $6 each day for 18 days. How much money will he have saved at the end of the 18 days?

What is $108

100

Jim sold several cases of sodas last week. He sold:

32 cases of Coke, 18 cases of Sprite, and 43 cases of Dr.Pepper.

He sold each case of soda for $22. How much money did Jim collect from selling the cases of soda?

What is $2,046

100

Fill in the missing blank to make the sentence true.

29 x _____ = 290

10

200

Kara is choosing an outfit for a birthday party. She has three bottoms (jeans, khakis, skirt) and five shirts (blue, green, orange, pink, purple). How many different outfits can she make?

What is 15 OUTFITS

200

Roger's basketball team scored 87 points. Karen's basketball team scored 44 points. About how many more points did Roger's team score than Karen's team?

What is 50 POINTS

200

Henry collected $120 over the past 3 months. He wants to give his money to his 12 friends. If he gives each friend the same amount of money, how much money will each friend receive?

What is $10.

200

A teacher has 486 paperclips. She needs to split them for 9 groups to use. If each group gets the same amount, how many paperclips will each group get?

What is 54

200

Jill told Kim the steps to find her lucky number. 

1. Find the sum of 358 and 246.

2. Divide the sum by 4.

3. The quotient is her lucky number.

What is Jill's lucky number?

151

300

What is the missing number in the number pattern? 8, 9, 11, 14, ___

What is 18

300

Meg read 19 books and Sue read 53 books. Which is the best estimate of how many more books did Sue read than Meg?

What is 30 BOOKS

300

Taylor owns a small farm with 27 sheep. If he has three times as many cows as sheep, how many cows does he have on his farm?

What is 81 COWS

300

Fill in the missing blank to make the number sentence true.

43 x _____ = 4,300

100

300

Samantha has 342 math problems to do this week. She solved 38 on Monday. She split the rest of the problems to do between Tuesday and Friday. How many problems will she have to do each night between Tuesday and Friday to finish on time?

76

400

Tyler's raising money for charity. He sold 51 sandwiches for $4 each. If he gives half of the money he earned for charity, how much money did he donate?

What is $102

400

A turkey sandwich with cheese has 248 calories. A grilled cheese sandwich has 423 calories. A tuna salad sandwich has 355 calories. About how many calories are there in all three sandwiches?

What is 1030 CALORIES?

400

Seth is reading books for the "Battle of the Books" competition. If he reads 128 pages every day for 7 days, how many pages will he have read in all?

What is 896 PAGES

400

There are 185 students in 4th grade. If we put the students into 7 groups. If each group has the same amount of kids in it, how many kids will be left out of a group?

3 (the remainder)

400

During the winter break, Mr. Jones drove 3,480 miles in 4 weeks. If he drives the same number of miles each week, how far will he drive on the 4th week?

870

500

Amanda saw 10 cardinals in one hour at the park. If she stays for 29 hours, how many cardinals will she see?

What is 290 CARDINALS

500

Jessica is collecting money for her school. On the first day she collected $251. On the second day she collected $106. The last day she collected $348. About how much money did she raise for her school all together?

What is $710

500

The after school program gives out snacks to each grade level. They have 252 snacks in all. If there are 6 grade levels and each grade receives the same number of snacks, how many snacks does each grade level receive?

What is 42 SNACKS

500

Kristi has 180 buttons. If she categorizes the buttons into 6 groups, how many buttons will be in each group?

30

500

A farmer had 43 bags of corn for his field. Each bag of corn was 23 pounds. He sold 2 bags to his neighbor. How many pounds of corn did the farmer have AFTER he sold some to his neighbor?

943 pounds of corn


43bags - 2 bags = 41 bags.

41 x 23 = 943