Use what you know about multiplication and division to solve these problems.  Enjoy!

Heidi had 24 crackers.   She put them in four bags. Each bag had the same amount.

How many crackers did Heidi put in each bag?

Max had three mini-bags of pretzels for snack.ccThere were five pretzels in each bag.

How many pretzels did Max have altogether?

If Max ate same amount each day for a week, how many pretzels would he have eaten then?

Logan made three necklaces.  She used 4 different colored beads on each of them.

She put five beads of each color on her necklace in a pattern. It was yellow, blue, green, and gold.

How many beads did Logan use to make her necklaces altogether?

Aiden had 200 Legos. He sorted them into four bins.  Each bin had the same amount.

How many Legos did Aiden put in each bin?

Seamus is collecting hockey cards.  He keeps them in a binder.  Each page has three rows of three card.  Seamus has 125 pages full in his binder.  How many hockey cards does Seamus have?

There were 24 crackers in a snack bag.  Ivan had a bag of crackers everyday for snack.  How many crackers did Ivan eat in a week?

Heidi had a collection of rocks.  1,274 were white.  3,705 were crystals and 856 had been polished smooth.  How many rocks did Heidi have altogether in her collection?

Try to use your most efficient strategy – remember the new one we are learning.  It is the most efficient of all!

Ivan was putting books in his bookcase.  He has already put 74 in the bookcase but he has 225 books.  How many more books does he have to put in the bookcase?

Dillan has 36 Smarties candies to share among herself and 3 friends.  How many Smarties will each of them receive?

Seamus had a large jar of marbles.  When Dad gave him 1,432 marbles the total in his jar grew to 3,668 marbles.  How many marbles did Seamus have before his dad gave him those new marbles?

When I looked out my window a parade was going by.  I saw 29 wheels.  How many wagons, tricycles and bicycles did I see in the parade?

Here are some problems that will help you practice multiplication and division while we work on place value and efficient strategies.

Adelle had 100 marbles.  She gave 55 away and put the remaining marbles into 9 bags.  How many marbles did Adelle put in each bag?

Dillan made 56 cupcakes.  She put 8 cupcakes into each box and sold the boxes for $3.00 each.  How much money did Dillan receive after she had sold all her boxes of cupcakes?

Abi completed 3 times as many laps around the track as Max did.  Abi completed 18 laps.  How many more laps did Abi complete that Max? 

Elias had 8 hats.  Nolan has four times as many hats as Elias.  How many hats do they have altogether?

Nolan had 100 marbles.  He gave 55 away.

He put the reaming marbles equally into 9 bags. 

How many marbles did he put in each bag? 

Dillan made 56 cupcakes to sell at a food sale. She put eight cupcakes into each box and sold the boxes for $3.00 each.

Dillan sold all of the boxes of cupcakes.  How much money did she earn?

Seamus had 99 cents. He bought six pencils for nine cents each. How much money does Seamus have left?

Heidi bought four cartons of juice.  The were 80 cents each. She gave the cashier a $10.00 bill. How much change should she get back from the cashier?

There were 38 kangaroos and 46 emus at the zoo in the Australia exhibit.  How many legs were there altogether?

There was a herd of 37 zebra and 49 wildebeest in the African savannah exhibit.  How many legs were there altogether?

Which exhibit had more legs?   How many more?

Allie, Ronan and Max each collect 126 acorns for a craft project.  How many acorns did they collect altogether?

There were 89 left when they finished the project.  How many acorns did they use?

We’re still learning how to use the distributive property to efficiently solve multiplication with larger amounts.  Which of these problems can you solve?  Leave a comment when you do.

There were 46 birds perched on the branches of a tree.  How many feet were there on the branches?

I see 115 cows in the pasture.  How many legs do I see?

There were 397 butterflies.  Each butterfly has 3 black dots and 5 yellow dots.  How many black dots were there in all?  How many yellow dots were there in all?

I see 35 elephants and 48 tigers at the zoo.  How many legs do I see in all?

This week we’ve been practicing our multiplication and learning to use the distributive property when multiplying larger numbers.  Here’s an example to remind you and help you explain things to your family.

127 x 4 =

Can be broken down into:  (100 x 4) + (20 x 4) + (7 x 4)  so it is 400 + 80 + 28 or 508.  Now I can add the answer to the original equation.  Here are some for you to do.  Leave your work in a comment if you’d like.

Kayla was getting ready for the trick-or-treaters to come to her house.  She had 5 bags of candy.  Each bag had 134 pieces of candy in it.  She dumped the candy into a big bowl for sharing.  How many pieces of candy did Kayla have for the trick-or-treaters?

Abi decorated her house for Halloween.  She had three packages of decorations.  There were 216 decorations like bats, witches, spiders, hats and pumpkins in each package.  How many decorations did Abi have altogether?

Ivan, his brother and two sisters carved their Halloween pumpkins.  They saved and roasted the seeds.  There were 72 seeds in each pumpkin.  How many seeds did Ivan and his family roast altogether?

Ben, Tim and Nick went camping.  They roasted marshmallows for everyone.  Each of them put two marshmallows on a stick at a time.  They roasted marshmallows like this 7 times.  How many marshmallows did they roast altogether?

They made s’mores out of the marshmallows they roasted.  They used 2 roasted marshmallows, 2 graham crackers, and 1/2 of a chocolate bar on each s’more.  They made them until their roasted marshmallows ran out.

How many graham crackers did they use altogether?

How many chocolate bars did they have before they started making the s’mores?