Word Problems
It‛s the day before Valentine‛s Day and Tom needs to get Valentine cards for all of his classmates. The desks are arranged in a rectangle 7 rows wide and 5 rows long. If there are 3 desks that are empty, how many students are in the class?
There are 32 students in the class
What is an equivalent fraction to 4/5?
8/10, 12/15, 16/20, 20/25, 24/30, etc.
3 x 100 =
300
100 / 10
10
What place is the 6 in?
231,587,630
the hundreds place
Mikey is typing in the computer lab and typing at 23 words per minute. If he types for 11 minutes, how many words does he type?
Mikey types 253 words
decompose 3/12
1/12 + 1/12 + 1/12
1/12 + 2/12
1/12 + 1/6
17 x 100 =
1700
500 / 2
250
What place is the 8 in?
184,003
Henry wants to see how many different colored crayons are in the crayon box. If there are 4 rows of 19 crayons, how many different colors are there, assuming no duplicate colors?
76 different colors
order these from greatest to least
1/2, 3/4, 2/3, 1/4
3/4, 2/3, 1/2, 1/4
2000 x 3 =
6000
8000 / 4
2000
What is the value of the 3?
43,114
3,000
Prunella gathered 5 baskets of shells. Each basket contained 50 shells. She gave 48 shells to Peter, 19 shells to her mother, and 72 shells to her cousin, Petunia. How many shells did Prunella have left?
Prunella has 111 shells left.
compare these two fractions
4/12, 2/10
4/12 > 2/10
2/10 < 4/12
15 x 300 =
4500
81 / 3
27
Compare the two 7's in the number below.
471,705
70,000 > 700
On Saturday morning, Anthony and Jimmy arrived at the annual beach clean up event at 9:00. They spent 53 minutes picking up trash and 27 minutes raking sand. If the event ends at 10:30, how many minutes do they have left to make signs that read “keep our beach clean”?
They have 10 minutes left to make signs.
How many "wholes" does this improper fraction have?
31/3
10 wholes
400 x 200,000 =
80,000,000
220 / 4
55
Tell me two ways you can decompose the number 381.
381 ones
3 hundreds and 81 ones
38 tens and 1 one
2 hundreds 18 tens and 1 one