Multiplicative Thinking

Story Problems

100

Four buses take students on a field trip. Each bus has 33 students. How many students fit on all the buses altogether?

What is 132 students?

200

Madalyn plant 8 rows of carrots with 5 carrots in each row. She also plants 36 tomato plants. How many carrot and tomato plants does she plant altogether?

What is 76 plants?

300

There are 6 shelves in the classroom library. Each shelf holds 24 books. The teacher adds 18 more books to the library. How many books are in the library altogether?

What is 126 books?

400

Orion reads 19 pages each day for 5 days. His goal is to read 120 pages. How many more pages does he need to read to reach his goal?

What is 25 more pages?

500

Four buses take students on a field trip. Each bus has 32 students. At the museum, the students are divided into groups of 8. How many groups are there altogether?

What is 16 groups?

Area

100

The area of a rectangle with a width of 8cm and a length of 7cm.

What is 56 cm² ?

200

The area of a rectangle with a width of 4 meters and a length of 46 meters. 

What is 184 meters² ?

300

The area of a rectangle with a width of 10 inches and a length of 60 inches.

What is 600 inches² ?

400

A school has two rectangular gardens. One is 8 feet by 6 feet, and the other is 10 feet by 4 feet. What is the difference of areas between the two gardens?

What is 8 feet ?

500

A rectangle has an area of 48 square centimeters. List three different pairs of whole-number side lengths that could make this rectangle.

What is 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 28 centimeters ?

Multiplication

100

9 x 6

What is 63 ?

200

80 x 30

What is 2,400 ?

300

89 x 3

What is 267 ?

400

26 x 34 

What is 884 ?

500

74 x 31

What is 2,294 ?

Division

100

54 ÷ 9

What is 6 ?

200

360 ÷ 6

What is 60?

300

435 ÷ 3

What is 145?

400

252 ÷ 4

What is 63?

500

1,408 ÷ 8

What is 176?

Random

100

The first 5 multiplies of 8

What is 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 ?

200

An array for the problem 7 x 3

What is 7 rows of 3 or 3 rows of 7

300

All of the factors for 36. 

What is 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, 36 ?

400

The fourth grade sells 8 packs of raffle tickets. Each pack contains 35 tickets. On Friday, they sell 96 tickets, and on Saturday, they sell 78 tickets. How many tickets are left to sell?

What is 106 tickets?

500

2,268 ÷ 4

What is 567?