Mental Strategies
Word Problems
Word Problems
Word Problems
Order of Operations
100
198 x 5
What is (200-2) x 5?
100
Jack has 3 times as many pencil erasers as Sam. Together, they have 28 erasers. How many erasers does Jack have?
What is 21?
100
A plane is traveling at a speed of 400 miles per hour. How far will the plane travel in 5 hours?
What is 2,000 miles?
100
Mrs. Nichols is buying 4 cell phones. The price of each phone is $159. What is the total price of the cell phones?
What is $636?
100
3 x 22 + 7 x 41 -24
What is 329?
200
6 x 298
What is 6 x (300-2)?
200
In Sean's fish tank, there are 6 times as many goldfish as guppies. There are a total of 21 fish in the tank. How many more goldfish are there than guppies?
What is 15?
200
Tia and her mom paid $12 for a child's ticket and an adult ticket to attend a flower show. An adult ticket cost 2 times as much as a child's ticket. How much was an adult ticket?
What is $8?
200
Use partial product to answer the question. 24 x 6?
What is 120 + 24 = 144
200
4 x 34 + 6 x 40 - 66
What is 310?
300
8 x 604
What is 8 x (600 + 4)?
300
Write a comparison sentence that best represents the equation. 5 x 9 = 45
What is 45 is 5 times as many as 9?
300
A theater has 4,650 seats. If the theater sells all the tickets for each of its 5 shows, about how many tickets will the theater sell in all?
What is 25,000?
300
Use distributive property to solve the problem. 3 x 14
What is 3 x (10 + 4)?
300
6 x 13 + 9 x 34 - 22
What is 362?
400
24 x 250
What is 6 x 4 x 250?
400
Alicia has 32 stickers. This is 4 times as many stickers as Benita has. How many stickers does Benita have?
What is 8?
400
Mr. Thomas bought 4 boxes of envelopes at the office supply store. Each box has 500 envelopes. How many envelopes did Mr. Thomas buy?
What is 2,000?
400
A ferryboat makes four trips to an island each day. The ferry can hold 88 people. If the ferry is full on each trip, how many passengers are carried by the ferry each day?
What is 352?
400
8 x 47 + 2 x 29 - 80
What is 354?
500
The school also bought 195 packages of markers. There are 6 markers in a package. How many markers did the school buy?
What is 1,170 markers?
500
One week, a clothing factory made 2,000 shirts in each of 6 different colors. How many shirts did the factory make in all?
What is 12,000?
500
Which shows the two estimates that the exact answer is between?
What is 1,200 and 1,600?
500
Julian counted the number of times he drove across the Seven Mile Bridge while vacationing in the Florida Keys. He crossed the bridge 34 times. How many miles in all did Julian drive crossing the bridge?
What is 238 miles?
500
3 x 75 + 4 x 23 + 47
What is 364?