Story Problems and Equations
Solving Story Problems
Fact Families
Missing Numbers
Area
100
Write an equation to match the story problem.
Ms. Vance has 6 trays laid out for a science experiment. Each tray has 3 cups on it. How many cups does Ms. Vance have?
6x3=c (c for cups)
100
Ms. Novotny plants 5 rows of flowers in her garden. She puts 8 flowers in each row. How many flowers does Ms. Novotny plant?
40 flowers
100
Finish the fact family.
4x6=24
6x4=24
24÷4=6
24÷6=4
100
Find the missing number.
40÷__=10
4
100
Find the area of the rectangle.
60 square centimeters
200
Write an equation to match the story problem.
Ms. Vance is trying to put the same number of toothpicks on each table. She has 56 toothpicks and divides them equally between 8 tables. How many toothpicks does she put on each table?56÷8=t (t for toothpicks)
200
Ms. Vance buys some popsicle sticks for an experiment. She ends up buying 4 packages with 9 popsicle sticks in each package. How many popsicle sticks did she buy?
36 popsicle sticks
200
Finish the fact family.
8x6=48
6x8=48
48÷8=6
48÷6=8
200
Find the missing number.
6=__÷4
24
200
What is the area?
24 square cm
300
Write an equation to match the story problem.
Ms. Seppa buys 2 packages of juice boxes with 10 juice boxes in each package. She wants to give 4 juice boxes to each teacher. How many teachers will get juice boxes?
(2x10)÷4=t (t for teachers)
300
Ms. Ghosh has 81 chairs to put at tables in the cafeteria. She wants to put 9 chairs at each table. How many tables can she set up?
9 tables
300
Write the fact family for the following numbers: 3, 24, 8
3x8=24
8x3=24
24÷3=8
24÷8=3
300
Find the missing number.
50=5x__
10
300
Draw a rectangle with dimensions that are 4 cm and 3 cm. What is the area of your rectangle?
12 square centimeters
400
Write a story problem to match 2x4=__
Our class has 4 groups of desks. Each group has 2 desks. How many desks are there in our class?
400
Ms. Novotny bakes 3 trays of 12 cookies. She gives 5 cookies to her dad. How many cookies does she have left?
31 cookies
400
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Write a fact family for the array.
3x9=27
9x3=27
27÷9=3
27÷3=9
400
Find the missing number.
__x9=54
6
400
Draw a rectangle with dimensions that are 6 feet and 7 feet. What is the area of of your rectangle?
42 square feet
500
Write a story problem to match 20÷4=__
Ms. Novotny baked 20 cookies. She divided them evenly between 4 bags. How many cookies did she put in each bag?
500
Ms. Osborne buys 4 pages of 10 stickers. She wants to give each student 5 stickers. How many students will get stickers?
8 students
500
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Write an fact family for the array.
4x4=16
16÷4=4
500
"Ms. Seppa has 36 Chromebooks. She puts 9 on each table. How many tables are there?"
Mr. D says you can solve this problem by thinking "What times 9 equals 36?" Do you agree with Mr. D? Why or why not?
Mr. D is correct. 36 is the total number of Chromebooks and 9 is the number in each group. We would solve this by doing 36÷9=__. __x9=36 would be in the same fact family.
500
Find the area of the rectangle.
96 square feet