Straight Up Computation
Word Problems
Vocabulary
Powers of Ten
100

53 x 8

What is 424?

100

A bakery makes 8 trays of cookies. Each tray holds 24 cookies. How many cookies does the bakery make?

What is 192 cookies?

100

What do we call the answer to a multiplication problem?

What is product?

100

What is 47 × 10?

What is 470?

200

98 x 26

What is 2,548?

200

A movie theater has 26 rows with 18 seats in each row. How many seats are in the theater?

What is 468 seats?

200

What do we call a whole number greater than 1 that has exactly two factors?

What is prime?

200

What is 326 × 100?

What is 32,600?

300

308 x 29

What is 8,932?

300

A school orders 135 notebooks for each of its 12 classrooms. How many notebooks does the school order altogether?

What is 1,620 notebooks?

300

What is the difference between a factor and a multiple?

A factor divides evenly into a number. A multiple is the product of that number and a whole number.

300

What is 58 × 10³?

What is 58,000?

400

5,555 x 365

What is 2,027,575?

400

A school carnival sells 245 tickets on Friday and 318 tickets on Saturday. Each ticket costs $12. The school spends $1,850 on supplies.

How much money does the school make after paying for supplies?

What is $4,906?

400

A number is both a square number and a composite number. Explain what each term means.

A square number is a whole number multiplied by itself. A composite number has more than two positive factors. Example: 36.

400

Fill in the missing number: 36 × _____ = 360,000

What is 10,000 (or 10⁴)?

500

2007 x 390

What is 782,730?

500

At a concert, 186 fans buy a sweatshirt for $45 each. Another 275 fans buy a T-shirt for $28 each.

How much money is made from merchandise sales altogether?

What is $16,070?

500

What is the difference between a prime number and a composite number? Give an example of each.

A prime number has exactly 2 factors (example: 7). A composite number has more than 2 factors (example: 12).

500

Fill in the missing number: 

72 × ______ = 7,200,000

What is 100,000 (or 10⁵)?