Word Problems - 5th Grade

Mrs. Noble went to the store and purchased 892 pencils, 953 rolls of stickers, and 1,204 eraser tops. How many more eraser tops and pencils did she purchase than rolls of stickers?

What operations do you use to solve this?

• Subtraction only

• Addition only

• Addition and subtraction

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

How would you solve this problem for GET?

Groups - 82 boxes

Each - ? bags of candy

Total - 2,050 bags of candy

• 82 ÷ 2050 = ?

• 2050 ÷ 82 = ?

• 82 X 2050 = ?

• 2050 X 82 = ?

Mrs. McConnell purchased 16 boxes of Oreos. Each package contained 28 Oreos. How many total Oreos did she purchase?

Which is the GROUP in this problem? How would you solve it?

• Boxes of Oreos...Multiply

• Boxes of Oreos...Divide

• Oreos...Multiply

• Oreos...Divide

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Click ALL of the words that are clue words for SUBTRACTION.

• Difference

• Total

• How many more than

• And

• Groups

Tags

CCSS.1.OA.A.1

SOLVE

To get ready for Halloween, Wal-Mart purchased 32,672 boxes of Reeses, 17,402 boxes of M&M's, and 9,100 boxes of Skittles. ABOUT HOW MANY MORE boxes of Reeses did they purchase than M&M's and Skittles?

• 59,000

• 7,000

• 16,000

• 6,000

Mrs. McConnell purchased 5 boxes of cupcakes for a party. Each box contained 24 cupcakes. She split the cupcakes equally between 40 students. How many cupcakes did each student receive?

What operation(s) would you use to solve this?

• Add all 3 numbers

• Add, then subtract

• Multiply, then divide

• Multiply all 3 numbers

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8