Question Bank for Grade 4 Mathematics

What two operations would you use to solve this word problem?

Randy bought new pencils for $2.00 and new crayons for $1.00. He paid with a $5 bill. How much change did Randy get back after paying for his new supplies? ($2.00)

• multiply and divide

• add and subtract

• multiply and add

• divide and subtract

What 2 opperations do you use to solve this word problem?

23 puppies are for sale at the pet store. 14 puppies are black and 6 puppies are brown. The rest of the puppies have spots. How many puppies have spots? (3)

• add and divide

• add and subtract

• multiply and divide

• divide and multiply

Solve this 2 step word problem.

Mrs. Bingham loves watching the monkeys at the zoo. There were 37 monkeys swinging on the vines and 26 monkeys sitting still. The rest of the monkeys were taking a nap. If there are 100 monkeys in all, how many of the monkeys were taking a nap?

 Holden had 3 packs of baseball cards with 6 cards in each pack. He gives his friend Clay 4 cards. Which shows one way to find the number of cards Holden has left?

• multiply 2 by 3 and then subtract 6
• multiply 3 by 6 and then subtract 4
• multiply 3 by 6 and then add 4
• multiply 2 by 3 and then add 6

The list shows the number of trees Isaiah planted in three years.

He planted 521 trees in the first year.

He planted 387 trees in the second year.

He planted 438 trees in the third year.

Isaiah wants to plant a total of 2,000 trees. How many more trees does Isaiah need to plant?

• 654

• 1,346

• 874

• 764

Melvin has twice as many pencils as Sam. Zachary has four times as many pencils as Sam. If Sam has 3 pencils, how many pencils do the three boys have in all?

• 12
• 6
• 21
• 24

Paul bought 3 boxes of chocolate candy and 4 boxes of caramel candy. If each box has 6 pieces inside it, how much candy did he have total?

• 42 pieces

• 10 pieces

• 13 pieces

• 1 piece

Paul has 176 baseball cards in his collection. He gives 12 of them to his friend, and then buys 30 more. How many baseball cards does Paul have now?

• a. 164

• b. 174

• c. 184

• d. 194

Mrs. Renz's class had a pizza party. They had 12 pizzas delivered to their classroom. Each pizza was cut into 8 slices. How many slices of pizza did they have? If they only ate 1/2 of the pizza how many slices were left over?

• a. 24/12

• b. 48/24

• c. 72/36

• d. 96/48

Mrs. W's and Miss Wendy's classes got together for an ice cream party. There were 32 students in Mrs. W's class and 28 students in Miss Wendy's class. If each student got 2 scoops of ice cream ,and each teacher got 3 scoops of ice cream, how many scoops of ice cream were served at the party?

• a. 120

• b. 123

• c. 126

• d. 129