The class is doing a math activity. There are 5 groups of 4 students. How many students are there in the class?
20
There are 5 groups of students. Each group should have 2 pairs of scissors. How many pairs of scissors are needed in total?
5 x 2 = 10 (10 pairs of scissors are needed in total)
There are 6 houses on a small street. Each house has a family with 4 children, 2 cats and a dog. How many children are there living on this street?
6 x 4 = 24 (There are 24 children living on this street.)
Last Sunday, 4 houses had some cars parked outside. If there were 4 cars outside each house. How many cars were there in total?
4 x 4 = 16 (There were 16 cars in total.)
8 students came in the library and each of them borrowed 3 fiction books. How many fiction books did they borrow?
8 x 3 = 24 They borrowed 24 fiction books.
Write the number sentence with multiplication that fits this: “Jasmine helped in the library 2 hours every weekday. She worked in the library for 10 hours last week.”
5 x 2 = 10
Ms. Hudson is getting her cooking class ready. She has 4 students in this class, and they are going to make double chocolate muffins. Ms. Hudson printed two sheets of recipes for each student. How many sheets did she print in total?
4 x 2 = 8 (She printed 8 sheets in total.)
A cup of hot chocolate contains 3 scoops of cocoa powder. How many scoops of cocoa powder to make 7 cups of hot chocolate?
3 x 7 = 21 (21 scoops of cocoa powder.)
Write the multiplication equation for this sentence: “Elliot works in the coffee shop for 5 hours every weekday. He worked for 25 hours last week.
5 x 5 = 25
Leo helps his father bake pizza in their family’s pizza house business. They have 3 ovens. Each of the ovens can contain 6 pizzas at a time. How many pizzas can be baked at Leo’s family pizza house if all the ovens are full?
3 x 6 = 18 (They can bake 18 pizzas at a time.)
A customer buys 4 pizzas. Each pizza has 6 slices. How many slices of pizza are there?
4 x 6 = 24 (There are 24 slices of pizza.)
Lucas ordered a Hawaiian pizza. There are 2 chunks of pineapple on each slice of pizza. If he ordered a pizza with 8 slices, how many pineapple chunks are on the pizza?
2 x 8 = 16 (There are 16 chunks of pineapple on the pizza.)
There were 35 customers in the sweet shop. There were 12 adults, and the rest were kids. How many kids were there in the sweet shop?
35 – 12 = 23 (There were 23 kids in the sweet shop)
Samantha bought £12 worth of gummy bear sweets for Halloween. If she paid with a twenty pound note (£20), how much change did she get back?
20 – 12 = 8 Samantha got £8 back
There were 28 jelly-beans left in the jar. There were 9 red ones, 10 green ones, and the rest of the beans were yellow. How many yellow jelly-beans were left in the jar?
28 – 9 – 10 = 9 (There were 9 yellow jelly-beans in the jar.)
42 students are going to the zoo. The first bus can only take 23 of them. How many students need to wait for the second bus?
42 – 23 = 19 (19 students need to wait for the second bus.)
