Multiplication Word Problems
Toothpatina and Toothpatrick are arguing. Toothpatrick says he has more marbles because he has 4 bags with 12 marbles in each. Toothpatina says that she has more marbles because she has 12 bags with 4 marbles in each bag. Who is correct and why?
Neither! They have the same amount!
Four students were sitting together at a table. The teacher gave them 24 notecards and said to divide them so each student had the same amount. How many notecards did each student get?
6 notecards
12x4=(8+_)x4
4
What does "sum" mean?
A sum is the answer to an addition problem
20x30=
600
Mr. Jome bought 32 donuts. Each donut costed $3. How much money did he spend on the donuts?
$78
Lexie’s younger brother helped pick up all the paper clips in Lexie’s room. He was able to collect 81 paper clips. If he wants to distribute the paper clips in 9 boxes, write an equation showing how many paper clips each box will contain.
81÷9= 9
Each box will have 9 paper clips
Box A
30
What does "difference" mean in math?
The difference is the answer to a subtraction problem.
78x12=
936
Then he started to prepare the games for his 4 friends. If each game takes 5 minutes to prepare and he prepared a total of 5 games, how many minutes did it take for Andrew to prepare all the games?
25 minutes
Besides the piles of white paper was a stack of 700 sheets of used paper. She wants to place it in boxes for recycling. If every box can contain 100 sheets, how many boxes does she need?
7 boxes
Box B
40
What does "quotient" mean?
9x(0+1)=
9
Thirty people each donated $40 to a fundraiser. How much money did the fundraiser make?
$1,200
3 piles of clean white papers were stacked in the corner of her room. She decided to place these papers in paper envelopes which can hold 10 papers each. How many paper envelopes does she need if she has 120 clean white papers?
12 clean white papers
Box C
14
What is an "expression" in math?
A math problem
213x10=
2,130
Mr. B got 13 pizzas for the robotics team. Each pizza had 10 slices. If there are 40 kids on the robotics team, was there enough pizza for each student to have 3 slices?
Yes. There was enough for each kid to have 3 slices and there were 10 slices left.
?A glass pitcher contains 65 ounces of orange juice. It gets poured evenly into cups. How many ounces of juice are in each cup and how many ounces are left in the pitcher.
There are 10 ounces in each glass. There are 5 ounces left in the pitcher.
Box D
864
What does it mean if you see parentheses in a math problem?
The parentheses mean "do this part first"
600÷25=
24