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Estimating
Distributive Property
Multiplication
100
Mr. Banks travels 163 miles each week for work and 12 miles to see family. How far does he travel in 4 weeks?
What is 700 miles?
100
Barry picked four times as many pumpkins as strawberries. He picked a total of 20 pumpkins and strawberries. How many pumpkins did he pick?
What is 15 pumpkins?
100
Frank sold 118 tickets for $6 each. He says he made $500. Which statement best describes the "reasonableness" of his estimate? a) It is reasonable because 100 x 6 = 600 b) It is NOT reasonable because 500 is not the product of 118 x 6. c) It is not reasonable because it is not beteen 600 and 1200. d) It is NOT reasonable because 118 x 6 = 708
What is c) It is not reasonable because it is not beteen 600 and 1200.
100
A food store has 5 boxes of carrots. Each box contains 298 carrots. Write an expression using the distributive property to find how many carrots there are.
What is 5 x (200 + 90 + 8)?
100
41 x 9
What is 369?
200
Jeff swims 20 laps every day. How many laps will he swim in one week?
What is 140 laps?
200
Jeremy has 5 albums with 18 baseball cards in each. His friend gives him 7 packages of baseball cards with 13 cards in each. If Jerome buys another 10 cads, how many will he have in all?
What is 191?
200
Estimate 98 x 7 to the nearest hundred.
What is 700?
200
Mike has 128 songs stored on his iPod. He wants to triple his music collection. He makes a model to help him find how many songs he will now have (see picture in NB). How many songs will Mike have?
What is 384?
200
98 x 6
What is 588?
300
Mary Beth could jump 42 times each minute. If she jumps for 10 minutes every day for one week, how many minutes does she spend jumping?
What is 2,940 minutes?
300
Diane has a stamp collection. In one book he was 6 pages with 15 stamps on each page. In another book he has 9 pages with 20 stamps on each page. He gives 25 stamps to a friend. How many does he have left?
What is 245?
300
Estimate 871 x 4. Round to the nearest hundred.
What is 3600?
300
Ryan made this model to find the product of a 3 digit number and a 1-digit number. Which multiplication sentence represents Ryan's model?
What is 3 x 148=444
300
212 x 3
What is 636?
400
Rob pays $28 for his gym membership in September, October and November. He paid $32 in December and $40 in January. How much did he pay in all?
What is $156?
400
Savannah makes 18 gift baskets to sell in her store. She puts 4 peaches in 10 of the baskets and 2 peaches in the remaining 8 baskets. How many peaches does she place in the gift baskets?
What is 56?
400
Round 87,342 to the nearest thousand.
What is 87,000?
400
Mario has 297 pencils in each of his 3 pencil cases. Which expression shows which strategy he can use to figure out how many pencils he has in all? a) 3 x (200 + 90) b) 3 x 7 c) 3 x (300 - 3) d) 3 x 3
What is c) 3 x (300 - 3)?
400
87 x 9
What is 783?
500
It takes 4 apples to make 1 pie. How many apples does it take to make 5 pies?
What is 20 apples?
500
Mary has 6 times as many toys as Christina. They have 42 toys all together. How many more toys does Mary have?
What is 30 toys?
500
Multiply and then estimate. 987 x 4
What is 3,948 AND 4,000?
500
Patty knows that there are 365 days in a year. She is trying to figure out how many days are in 6 years. Which expression can help her solve this problem? a) 6 x (300 + 60 + 5) b) 6 x (300) c) 6 x (60 + 5) d) 6 x 6
What is a) 6 x (300 + 60 + 5)
500
852 x 7
What is 5,964?