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.)
The class is doing a math activity. There are 5 groups of 4 students. How many students are there in the class?
20
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)
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.)
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
If you had 10 glass bottles and 3 plastic bottles, how many bottles are there altogether?
10 + 3 = 13
There were 21 children at the party. 16 of them were picked up. The rest of them walked home on their own. How many children walked home?
21 – 16 = 5 (5 children walked home on their own.)
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)
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.)
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.)
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.)
If there are 5 blackbirds and 9 robins in your garden, how many birds are there altogether?
5 + 9 = 14
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.)
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.)
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.)
Before the post office opened on Monday morning, there were 80 packs of stamps. At the end of the day, there were 53 packs of stamps left. How many packs of stamps were sold on Monday?
80 – 53 = 27 (There were 27 packs of stamps sold.)
45 patients made dentist appointments on Monday but only 28 patients showed up. How many patients missed their appointments?
45 – 28 = 17 (17 patients missed their appointments.)
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
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.
On Sunday, 80 letters were received at the post office. However, 9 letters were not addressed properly and needed to be returned and 7 letters did not have enough stamps. How many letters could be mailed out successfully?
80 – 9 – 7 = 64 (64 letters could be mailed out successfully.)
Mike has a five-pound note. Donuts cost 80p. How many donuts can he buy?
6 - (6 x 80p = £4.80)
78 customers came into the bookshop, and 53 of them were regular customers. How many new customers came into the bookshop today?
78 – 53 = 25 (There were 25 new customers)
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