Word Problems
An oak tree in the park is 85 feet tall. Julie reads about some trees that can grow to be 3 times as tall as the oak tree. How tall would those trees be? Tell what strategy or tool you will use to answer the question, explain your choice, and then find the answer.
255 Feet Tall
Use Area Model to share. 8 x 35
280
Use Distributive Property to solve 3 x 421
A bookshelf has 4 shelves. There are 5 sports books and 17 mystery book on each shelf. How many sports and mystery books are on the bookshelf?
88 total books on the bookshelf.
Use area model to solve 2 × 111
222
BASE TEN: 3 groups of 1 hundred, 2 tens, and 1 one.
Write an equation to represent the visual (teacher will show)
3x 121= 263
A playhouse on a school’s playground has 2 levels. The first level is 8 feet off the ground. The second level is 12 feet higher than the first level. A tree on the playground is 2 times as tall as the playhouse. How many feet tall is the tree?
Playhouse= 12 +8 = 20
Tree= 20 x 2= 40
The Tree is 40 feet tall.
Use Area Model to Solve: 8 × 1, 247 ?
BASE TEN: 4 groups of 1 thousand, 2 hundred, 2 tens, and 1 one (teacher will show).
Write an equation to represent the visual and solve using distributive property.
4 x 1,221 = (4 x1,000) + (4 x 200) + (4x 20) + (4x 1)= 1,884