Associative Property
The school planted sunflower gardens. They planted 2 gardens, each with 5 rows, and 8 sunflowers in each row.
The expression 2 × 5 × 8 represents the total number of sunflowers planted.
2 × 40
10 x 8
16 x 5
Jordan has 18 apples. He gives 5 apples to his friend Mia.
Then Jordan buys 7 more apples from the store.
How many apples does Jordan have now?
Step 1: 18 − 5 = 13
Step 2: 13 + 7 = 20
Kara has 24 stickers. She puts 6 stickers in each envelope.
How many envelopes does she fill?
Answer:
24 ÷ 6 = 4 envelopes
There are 5 rows of lockers, and each row has 9 lockers.
The school writes the equation:
5 × 9 = C
What does the C represent?
45 total LOCKERS
There are 18 snacks on one table and 16 snacks on another table.
All the snacks are divided equally among 4 teams.
18 + 16 ÷ 4
A toy store arranged a display using 4 shelves, each shelf holding 3 bins, and each bin holding 7 toy cars.
The expression 4 × 3 × 7 represents the total number of toy cars.
4 x 21
12 x 7
28 x3
A teacher buys 6 boxes of pencils, and each box has 10 pencils.
She gives 20 pencils to students in the morning.
How many pencils does she have left?
Step 1: 6 × 10 = 60
Step 2: 60 − 20 = 40
A baker has 35 muffins and arranges them equally onto 5 trays.
How many muffins go on each tray?
Answer:
35 ÷ 5 = 7 muffins per tray
A florist arranges flowers into 7 bouquets. Each bouquet has 4 roses.
She writes the equation:
7 × 4 = C
What does C represent?
28 total ROSES
The school sold 32 child tickets and 15 adult tickets for the basketball game.
They put all the tickets into 7 equal prize baskets.
32 + 15 ÷ 7
A bakery packed cookie boxes. They filled 5 trays, each tray had 2 boxes, and each box had 6 cookies.
The expression 5 × 2 × 6 represents the total number of cookies.
10 x 6
30 x 2
12 x 5
There are 8 tables at field day.
Each table has 7 snack bags.
Later, the teachers add 28 more snack bags.
How many snack bags are there in total?
Step 1: 8 × 7 = 56
Step 2: 56 + 28 = 84
A gardener planted 8 rows of flowers. Each row has 6 flowers.
How many flowers did she plant?
Answer:
8 × 6 = 48 flowers
A coach fills water bottles for the team. He fills 24 bottles equally into 6 bins.
He writes the equation:
24 ÷ 6 = C
What does C represent
4 BOTTLES in each bin
A teacher collected 40 crayons from one bin and 28 crayons from another bin.
She wants to split all the crayons into 8 equal containers.
40 + 28 ÷ 8
A teacher organized crayons. She prepared 3 tables, each with 6 containers, and each container had 4 crayons.
The expression 3 × 6 × 4 represents the total number of crayons.
18 x 4
12 x 6
24 x 3
Coach Lewis groups students into 3 courts, with 12 players on each court.
He then divides all the players into 6 equal training groups.
How many players are in each training group?
Step 1: 3 × 12 = 36
Step 2: 36 ÷ 6 = 6
A farmer has 4 baskets, and each basket holds 7 apples.
How many apples does he have in all?
Answer:
4 × 7 = 28 apples
A baker made 48 cookies and packs them into 8 equal boxes.
She writes the equation:
48 ÷ 8 = C
6 cookies in each box
There are 55 new balls delivered to the school.
The teacher gives 9 balls to each of the 5 playground areas.
55 − 9 × 5
An orchard has 2 orchards, each orchard has 4 rows, and there are 12 apples on each tree.
The expression 2 × 4 × 12 represents the total number of apples.
8 x 12
48 x 2
24 x 4
A class is going on a field trip. Tickets cost $8 each.
The teacher buys tickets for 7 students and then gets $15 refunded from the school.
How much did the teacher spend after the refund?
Step 1: 7 × 8 = 56
Step 2: 56 − 15 = 41
A chef has 36 cookies and puts 9 cookies into each box.
How many boxes does she need?
Answer:
36 ÷ 9 = 4 boxes
A gardener planted 3 fields, and each field has 12 rows of tomatoes.
She writes the equation:
3 × 12 = C
36 ROWS of tomatoes in all
Two classes combine for reading time. One class has 21 students, the other has 19 students.
They split into 5 equal reading groups.
21 + 19 ÷ 5