Unit 5
All Operations Review
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
How Old?
The large, elegant house on the
corner is three times older than
the front balcony. The balcony
is 10 years older than the
bushes in the front yard. The
arched windows on the top floor
are 8 years younger than the
bushes and the windows are only
6 years old. How many years old
are the house, bushes, windows
and balcony together?
Chef
Luigi
Chef Luigi starts his new television show on the
cooking channel next week. In a publicity
interview he was asked how many hours he
practiced cooking so that he could become the
famous chef he is today. He told the
interviewer he had been cooking alongside his
grandmother since he was a boy of 9. Every
night he helped her prepare a full meal for the
family for 45 minutes right after finishing his
homework. He helped her until he left for
culinary school. How many hours did he spend
learning how to cook from his grandmother if he
helped her every year for 9 years?
Howdy Partner
THIS YEAR AT THE RODEO
PARADE THERE WILL BE 36
COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS IN 9
EQUAL ROWS WALKING IN
FRONT OF THE HORSES AND
THEIR RIDERS. DRAW AN ARRAY
REPRESENTING HOW THEY WILL
BE ARRANGED. HOW MANY
RODEO STARS WILL WALK IN
EACH ROW?
Billy is determined to win the grand prize at the Spring Carnival by
ringing the bell at the top of the High Striker Game. If he hits the pad
with the mallet hard enough the puck rise up the tower and ring the
bell. The grand prize is a bag of jawbreakers in packages. There are
12 packages of jawbreakers in the bag with 6 in each package. How
many total jawbreakers can he win? If Billy rings the bell and decides
to share the jawbreakers with all of his 17 classmates on Monday, how
many jawbreakers will each get?
Jawbreakers
Bell Ringer
Our First President in Every Window
Stephens Elementary wants to purchase pictures of
George Washington for President’s Day to cling to the
window of each classroom door. There are 15 classrooms
in Hall A, 19 classrooms in the main part of the building
and 17 classrooms in Hall B. If the pictures cost $3.25
each, what will be the total cost?
Crockett Elementary Student Council is preparing for
their springtime Field Day. One of the events is a
Tug-Of- War for which they will need a long rope. They
know they need 2ft of rope per person. They estimate
there will be 12 students on each of the two teams. How
many yards of rope will they need?
Tug-Of-War
Five friends in Ms. Villa’s class are
enjoying themselves at the Field Day
activities. They are ready to count the
tokens they’ve won at each even when
Sarah notices her bag of tokens is missing.
Her 4 kind friends decide to put all of
their tokens together so they can divide
them equally among all five friends.
Emily’s bag has 19 tokens, Peyton’s has 28
tokens, Miranda’s has 31 and Kate’s has
22. If they divide the total equally among
the five girls, how many tokens will each
have?
Share
the Wealth
Celebrate!
The fourth grade poster partners are going to prepare 24
posters to distribute to each teacher to use for celebrating
events this year. They will tape around all the edges of each
poster so they won’t tear or show wear. Each package of
tape contains 12 yards of tape. If the dimensions of each
sign are 2 feet by 3 feet, find the total number of packages
of tape needed to tape the edges of all 24 posters.
Sniffing
with Fido
Fido, the dog, is exhausted. Every
morning he begins at 7a.m. sniffing
all the trees, bushes and other
plants in his yard. Every 4 minutes
he moves forward sniffing four
plants then moves back 1 plant and
sniffs it again.. How many different
plants will Fido have sniffed by
8:00a.m. when it’s time for his
morning nap? Write an equation to
show the relationship.
Relay Races
Ricky and his friends are on a relay team for Field Day. The
illustration below shows how many laps around the blacktop
Ricky has to run for the first leg of the race. How many laps
does he have to run? Express your answer in both decimal
and fraction form.