Name
Choose the Operation
Models and Examples
To solve problems, you need to decide which equation to use.
How many nickels can you get for 71 pennies?
Picture the situation. You have 71 pennies.
5 71 71 5 71 5 71 5 For each group of 5 pennies, you can get 1 nickel.
So you can divide 71 by 5 to find the answer.
71 5 14 R1
More Examples
Read each problem. Choose the equation that you can
use to solve the problem. Explain how you decided.
There are 96 boxes. There are
8 cartons of milk in each box.
How many cartons of milk are there?
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Name
Choose the Operation
Practice
Picture each situation. Choose the equation that solves the problem.
Explain how you decided. Then solve.
There are 3 feet in 1 yard. How many
yards are there in 5,280 feet?
3 1 5,280 3 5,280 5,280 3 5,280 3 There are 12 inches in 1 foot. There are
5,280 feet in 1 mile. How many inches
are in 1 mile?
12 1 5,280 5,280 12 5,280 12 5,280 12 12
Kia has 8 boxes of buttons. There
are 28 buttons in each box. How
many buttons does she have?
Ben put 32 toy cars on 8 shelves.
He put the same number on each
shelf. How many toy cars are on
each shelf?
Sam has 75 baseball cards. He
gave some to Ted. How he has
59 cards. How many did he give
to Ted?
Jan shared some cookies.
Each person got 3. There were
15 cookies in all. How many
people shared the cookies?
Mara has 48 inches of ribbon.
How many feet is that?
Tom used 9 photos for each poster.
He made 12 posters. How many
photos did he use?
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