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4th grade Unit 1
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1. Maria earns $25 working after school. She decides to spend the $25 at the school store to buy gifts for
her friends.
Part A
The total price of how many key chains equals the price of 1 T-shirt? Show your work or explain your
answer.
Part B
Maria decides to buy 4 key chains. She then buys as many book covers as possible. Explain if Maria can
buy anything else after she buys the book covers. Show your work.
Part C
Maria goes to the school store again with $25. She buys the greatest number of different items that she
can buy. Her purchase is equal to all of the money she brought this time. Which items can Maria buy and
spend all $25? Explain your answer.
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2. The diagram shows counters on place-value cards.
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Part A
What number is represented by the counters? Divide this number by 3. Show your work or explain your
answer in words.
Part B
Round the number represented by the counters to the nearest ten. Explain your answer.
Part C
Make a model of a different number using place-value cards like the ones shown. Put an equal number of
counters on the thousands card and the tens card. Write the number that your model represents. How
many times greater is the value of the digit in the thousands place than the value of the digit in the tens
place?
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3. This table shows the number of students in some of the grades at an elementary school.
Part A
What is the total number of students in grades K through 3? Show your work.
Part B
The elementary school has 697 students in all. What is the total number of students in grades 4 and 5
together? Show your work.
Part C
Grade 4 has 30 more students than grade 5. How many students are in grade 4, and how many students
are in grade 5?
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Part D
A table in the cafeteria can have up to 9 students. How many tables are needed for each grade?
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4. Complete the rounding table to answer the questions.
Part A
Write the rounded values in order from least to greatest. Use the appropriate comparison symbol
in your answer.
Part B
Brody states that the rounded values for 416,283 are always less than the original value of the number. Do
you agree or disagree with Brody? Use the rounded numbers in Part A to explain why you agree or
disagree.
Part C
If all of the rounded numbers are plotted on a number line, which numbers would be 200 or less away from
416,283? Explain your answer.
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5.
What is the place value of the underlined digit in 172,482.03?
A)hundreds
B)hundredths
C)thousands
D)thousandths
6.
What is another way to write 14,562?
A)fourteen thousand and sixty-two
B)four thousand five hundred sixty-two
C)fourteen thousand five hundred sixty-two
D)one hundred forty thousand five hundred sixty-two
7. Chantal found the difference of the two numbers in this expression by using mental math.
Which best explains how Chantal could have found the difference?
A)Subtract 300, and then add on 2.
B)Subtract 300, and then add on 6.
C)Subtract 300, and then subtract 2 more.
D)Subtract 300, and then subtract 6 more.
8. A fourth grade class is learning about veterans. A veteran is a person who has served in the military. The table shows the
information they collected about the number of people who are veterans in several states.
Which expression correctly compares the number of veterans in two of the states listed in the table?
A)
B)
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C)
D)
9. The members of a new community plan to buy a new slide for the neighborhood park. The table shows the weights of three
different kinds of slides.
Part A
How many times greater is the value of the 8 in the section slide’s weight than in the bump slide’s weight?
Explain how you got your answer using what you know about place value.
Part B
The weight of a smaller slide not listed in the table is about 400 pounds when rounded to the nearest
hundred but stays the same weight, in pounds, when rounded to the nearest ten. What could be the weight
of the smaller slide? Explain your answer.
Part C
The slide they chose came in 10 boxes that weighed about 110 pounds each. Which slide did they choose?
Explain how you got your answer.
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10. The table shows the weights of 3 giraffes.
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Part A
What is the weight, in kilograms, of Giraffe 2 in expanded form? Explain your answer.
Part B
Does Giraffe 1 or Giraffe 3 weigh more? Explain your answer and use place value in your explanation.
Part C
What is the weight of each giraffe, rounded to the nearest 100 kilograms?
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11. The number of people who attended a big race on Friday was 111,283. On Saturday, 94,345 people
attended another race at the same race track.
Part A
What was the total number of people who attended both races? Explain your answer using what you know
about place value.
Part B
How many fewer people attended the Saturday race than the Friday race? Explain your answer using what
you know about place value.
Part C
What was the attendance at the Friday race rounded to the nearest hundred? Explain your answer.
Part D
What was the attendance on Saturday rounded to the nearest thousand?
Explain your answer.
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12. The table shows the distance that each of three trains traveled in a given number of days. The trains all traveled the
same number of hours each day.
Part A
Copy the table, round each distance to the nearest thousand kilometers, and fill in the spaces with your
rounded distances.
Part B
Use your rounded distances from Part A to estimate the number of kilometers each train traveled per day.
Show your work.
Part C
If the three trains traveled an equal number of days, which train would go the longest distance? Explain
your answer.
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13. The table shows the numbers of people who rode four different rides at an amusement park one day.
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Part A
Which ride had the most people who rode it that day? Use what you know about place value to explain how
you got your answer.
Part B
How many people rode the Log Ride to the nearest 10? Explain your answer.
Part C
The Log Ride holds up to 4 people at a time. If it had a full load every time it was run that day, what was
the total number of times the Log Ride ran? Show your work.
Part D
The Sky Lift can hold up to 6 people at a time. Nina says the Sky Lift had to run more times than the Log
Ride that day. Do you agree or disagree with Nina? Show your work and explain why you agree or
disagree.
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14. The table shows the number of costumes a store sold each week during a 3-week period.
Part A
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Compare the value of the digit 6 in 764 to the value of the digit 6 in 627. Use what you know about place
value to explain your answer.
Part B
How many costumes were sold during the 3-week period? Round the total to the nearest hundred. Show
your work and explain your answer.
Part C
During the same 3-week time period last year, the store sold 1,425 costumes. Copy the table below and fill
in the number of costumes that could have been sold each week. Use these rules to choose your numbers.
● More costumes were sold in week 1 than any other week.
● The value of the hundreds digit in week 1 was ten times the value of the tens digit in week 2.
● A total of 1,425 costumes were sold.
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15. The first 5 terms of a number pattern are shown.
Part A
The rule for the pattern includes adding a number then subtracting a different number. What is the rule for
the pattern? Show your work or explain your answer.
Part B
The pattern continues. What are the next 2 terms of the pattern? Show your work.
Part C
Will any term in this pattern ever be less than zero? Explain your answer.
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16. Trina is making frozen lemonade treats to sell at the soccer game. She filled
regular lemonade.
of an ice cube tray with
Part A
How many more parts of the tray does Trina need to fill to have one full tray? Show how you got your
answer by using an equation. Draw a model to justify your answer.
Part B
After filling one tray with regular lemonade, Trina filled an additional
trays with strawberry lemonade
and
trays with raspberry lemonade. What was the total number of trays she filled with all three kinds of
lemonade? Show your work.
Part C
Trina is selling each part of an ice cube tray for $1. She thinks she can sell enough of the lemonade
treats to make a total of at least $40. Is Trina correct? Explain your answer.
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