Multiplication Word Problems (Topic 1)
 Jordan was really hungry today. He went to Uncle Sam’s and bought 6 pizzas for himself. Each
pizza had 7 pepperonis on it. How many pepperonis were there in all?
 Lena picked 3 bags of 10 apples at the Apple Orchard this weekend. When she got home she gave
12 of her apples to her grandparents. How many apples did Lena have left?
 Ava swims 4 laps every day of the week. Her brother Andrew swims 1 lap every day of the week.
How many laps do they swim together in a week?
 Shawn eats 4 eggs on mornings before he goes to school. Abdullahi eats 2 eggs on the same
mornings. Last week, how many more eggs did Shawn eat than Abdullahi?
 Farmer Orlando has 9 animal pens on his farm. Each pen can hold 3 piglets and 1 mama pig. How
many animals can live on Farmer Orlando’s farm?
Division Word Problems (Topic 2)
 Mr. Bell had 24 colored markers to give equally to 6 students. How many markers did each
student get?
 James has 36 tomato plants. If he plants 4 plants in a row, how many rows will he plant?
 Enrico put 54 photographs into a scrapbook. He put 2 photographs on each page. How many
pages did he fill?
 Sharon made 47 yummy pancakes. She gave an equal amount to five of her friends and kept the 2
leftovers for herself. How many pancakes did each friend receive?
 Twelve floozles from the planet Neptune have been stealing pants from Mrs. Jacobs’ washing
line. They have visited Earth four times this week and twice last week. They have taken a total of
42 pairs of pants. If they took an equal amount of pants each time, how many did they take on one
day?
Five Step Strategy (Topic 3)
 What is the first step in the Five Step Strategy?
 What operation do you use for this problem? Why?
o The school puts 9 playground balls in each box. How many playground balls will there be
in 6 boxes?
 What operation do you use for this problem? Why?
o A nursery has 6 flowers to plant. If they can put 3 flowers in each pot, how many pots
will the nursery need?
 What does TTQA stand for?
 List all the steps in their appropriate order.
Repeated Addition or Subtraction (Topic 4)
 Joshua, Zavian, and Brian each picked a basket full of cherries. Each basket held 67 cherries.
How many total cherries did the boys pick?
 Elwin, Eric, and Julianiece were baking cupcakes for a bake sale. Elwin baked a dozen cupcakes.
Eric baked twice as many as Elwin. Julianiece baked triple the amount that Elwin baked. How
many cupcakes did Julianiece bake?
 Karry has 28 pencils. He decided to give away an equal amount of pencils to Kevin, Luis, Mya,
and Brittany. How many pencils did each friend get?
 Loida made 60 chocolate chip cookies for the three third grade classes at Goddard. The cookies
have to be shared in the fairest way between the classes. How many cookies will each class get?
 A tiger named Tiny Tim joined Miss Heard for tea yesterday. He was very polite and had good
table manners, but he ate four 8-pound biscuits, two 10-pound cakes, and 3 pounds of tiger food.
How many pounds of food did he eat altogether?
Make a Drawing or an Array (Topic 5)
 There were 3 ladybugs on the flower. Each ladybug had 7 sports. How many spots in all?
 Soleil reads 5 books every day of the week. Anthony reads 3 books every day of the week. How
many books do they read altogether in one week?
 James had some bags of candy in his room. Each bag had 6 pieces of candy in it. He had 18
pieces of candy in all. How many bags of candy did he have?
 There are 9 kids in Max’s Saturday art class. Each kid gave Max the same amount of Halloween
themed stickers. He collected a total of 45 stickers. How many stickers did each kid give him?
 Principal Grigg and Mrs. Perozzi decided to make a vegetable garden. Every month for a year
they planted some carrots, green beans, tomatoes, and cauliflower – all of their favorites. They ate
some here and there throughout the year but by the end of the year they counted a total of 72
harvested vegetables. If they harvested an equal amount each month, how many vegetables would
they have harvested in June?
Bonus
Multiplication
 Make a number sentence and number story using the following array:
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