Word Problems
Sarah and Mary are playing basketball. Each girl makes 7 baskets. Each basket is worth 2 points. How many points did each girl make? How many points did they make altogether?
Each girl made 14 points, altogether they have 28 points.
A table is 8 feet long and 2 feet wide. What is the area of the table?
16 square ft.
Brad and Trey are playing a football video game. A touchdown in the game is worth 6 points. Brad’s team makes 5 touchdowns. Trey’s team makes 4 touchdowns. How many points does each boy have? How many points do they have altogether?
How many points does each boy’s team have? Brad’s team has 30 points. Trey’s team has 24 points. How many points do they have altogether? Brad and Trey have 54 points altogether.
Solve 5 x 6
***Equal Group Strategy
30
The basketball court at the park is 10 feet long and 6 feet wide. What is the area of the basketball court?
60 square feet long
Kyle and Brad decide to go fishing. They stop at the bait shop to buy worms. The bait shop owner said that he would pay $3 for every worm the boys bring back to him to sell in his shop. Kyle catches 7 worms and Brad catches 8 worms. How much money will each boy make? How much will they make altogether?
How much money will each boy make? Kyle will make $21 and Brad will make $24. How much money will they make altogether? They will make $35 altogether.
The kitchen at school is 20 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is the area of the kitchen?
160 square feet wide.
The students in Room 2 collect 2 baskets of canned goods for the annual Thanksgiving dinner. Each basket should have 20 canned goods. The teacher collects 13 cans. The girls collect 9 cans and the boys collect 14 cans. How many more cans does Room 2 have to collect?
4 cans
Solve 7 x 6
***Repeated Addition Strategy
42
Mr. Peter’s desk is 7 feet wide and 4 feet long. What is the area of Mr. Peter’s desk?
28 feet
Sarah and Kaitlin go to the grocery store. Sarah buys 4 packages with 6 rolls in each. Kaitlin buys 3 packages with 8 rolls in each. How many rolls does each girl buy? How many do they have altogether?
How many rolls does each girl buy? Sarah buys 24 rolls and Kaitlin buys 24 rolls. How many rolls do they buy altogether? Sarah and Kaitlin buy 48 rolls altogether.
A gold sticker is 7 centimeters tall and 3 centimeters wide. What is the area of the sticker?
21 square centimeters
Mrs. Johnson used 3 feet of ribbon to decorate one package, 2 feet for a second package, and 5 feet for a third package. She had 10 feet of ribbon left. How many feet of ribbon did she begin with?
20 feet of ribbon.
3 + 2 + 5= 10
She used 10ft and has 10ft letft.
10 +10 =20
Solve 8 x 7
***Using an Array
56
A rectangle is 20 inches wide and 6 inches long. What is the Area of the rectangle?
120 inches
Hannah and Mary are baking cookies for their school bake sale. They can cook on 3 pans that each fit 10 cookies. How many cookies can they bake at one time? If they charge $2 per cookie, how much money could they make altogether?
How many cookies can the girls bake at one time? They can bake 30 cookies at one time. How much money can they make off one batch if they charge $2 per cookie? Hannah and Mary can make $60 off one batch.
Ms. Rodriguez wants to build a dog shed for her dog, Macy. She knows that Macy needs a bed that is 5 feet long and 4 feet wide. What is the area of the dog bed she will build?
20 square feet wide
Victor and his friends bought 2 cases of water. There were 12 bottles in each case. Josh drank 10 bottles, Justin drank 5 bottles, and Krissy drank 2 bottles. How many bottles are left
7 bottles
Solve 9 x 8
***Repeated Addittion
72
A rectangle is 12 ft wide and 5 ft long. What is the area of the rectangle?
60ft
Amy saved 59 postcards from locations in Europe and 84 postcards from locations in Asia. She saved 193 postcards from locations around the United States. How many more postcards did she have from the United States than Europe and Asia combined?
50 post cards
Tim finished a 350 piece jigsaw puzzle in one week and a 325 piece jigsaw puzzle the next week. Tim and Jan finished a 950 piece jigsaw puzzle the third week. How many more pieces did the puzzle that Tim and Jan finished together have than Tim’s other two puzzles combined?
275 puzzles
Tayna has to buy 144 light bulbs for a project. The light bulbs come in packages of 8. She bought 4 packages online and 5 packages from the department store. How many more packages of light bulbs does Tanya need to buy?
9 packages
**Equal Group Strategy
12
A driveway is 300ft long and 7ft wide. What is the area of the driveway?
2,100 ft.