Patrick has 42 toy soldiers. He puts them onto 7 shelves. How many toy soldiers are on a shelf?
What is the problem asking?
What information is provided to help you solve the
problem?
How many toys on the shelf
42 toy soldiers on 7 shelves
Solve the problem
Check your work with multiplication
6 x 7 = 42
42/7=6
Answer: There are 6 toy soldiers on a shelf.
Patricia made 480 ginger cookies to give to 9 friends. Will she be able to split the cookies evenly
between her friends?
What is the problem asking? Can Patricia split the What information is provided to help you solve the
480 cookies between her 9 friends.
problem? 480 cookies and 9 friends
Solve the problem
Check your work with multiplication
53 x 9 = 477
477+3 = 480
480/9 = 53 r3
Answer: No, Each friend would get 53 cookies and Patricia would have 3 left over
An auditorium has 3,065 seats. The seats are divided into five sections: the orchestra left, right, and
middle, the mezzanine, and the balcony. Assuming that there are the same seats in each section, how
many are in the orchestra left section?
What is the problem asking?
What information is provided to help you solve the
How many seats are in the orchestra left section
problem? The auditorium has 3,065 seat and 5
sections.
Solve the problem
Check your work with multiplication
613 x 5 = 3,065
3,065 / 5 = 613
Answer: There are 613 seats in the orchestra left section of the auditorium.
The San Francisco Chronicle has 8 distributors in the Tri Valley area to deliver papers. If the carriers
deliver a total of 34,072 papers, how many papers does one distributor deliver?
What is the problem asking?
What information is provided to help you solve the
problem?
How many papers does each distributor deliver
8 distributors, 34,072 papers
Solve the problem
Check your work with multiplication
4,259 x 8 = 34,072
34,072/8=4,259
Answer: Each distributor delivers 4,259 papers
Robert has to put away 540 chips from a game his friends and he were playing. He first has to divide the
chips between 6 boxes. He next has to put the chips in each box into 5 columns. How many chips are in
each column?
What is the problem asking?
What information is provided to help you solve the
How many chips are in a column
problem?
540 chips, 6 boxes, 5 columns
Solve the problem
540/6 = 90
90/5= 18
Check your work with multiplication
18 x 5 = 90
90 x 6 = 540
Answer: There are 18 chips in a column.
Nissan delivered 587 cars to the Benicia dock to be distributed to 7 dealers. About how many cars will
each dealer receive? 56 is a compatible number to 7 that is closest to 58. 560/7 = 80 cars
List the 15 prime numbers between 1 and 50.
2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47
Sheila has 48 tulips. She could put them in 6 rows with 8 tulips in each row or she could put them in
another combination. List the other combinations Sheila could do?
48 x 1, 1x48, 2x24, 24x2, 16 x 3, 3 x 16, 4 x 12, 12 x 4, 6 x 8, 8 x 6