Math Problems
When working on Math problems with your child, allow your child to come up with a strategy and attempt the problem on his or her own. Your child might not choose the most efficient way of solving the problem. That’s OK, so long as he or she is getting the right answer. After your child has made a reasonable attempt to solve the problem, feel free to correct his or her answer or show how you would have solved the problem. Then, try giving the same problem with different numbers, so that your child can practice.
* It is early in the year and we have not done much work with multiplication and division yet, so questions 9-13 might be a bit challenging.
Here are some practice word problems you could try with your child:
1) The store sells ice cream bars for $2.17 each and apples for $0.97. Estimate how much it would be for 3 ice cream bars and four apples.
2) Bob bought cat food. He paid with a $20 bill and his change was $12.75. How much did the cat food cost?
3) There were 240 bags of brown sugar and 279 bags of white sugar at the store. Rounded to the nearest hundred, how many bags of sugar were there at the store?
4) Mrs. Smith asked the students to guess what number she was thinking of. The number:
· is odd
· is more than 100 but less than 200
· has no repeating digits
Which number could it be?
a) 217
b) 109
c) 198
d) 177
5) The nurse gave out 500 lollipops. 210 were green and 107 were yellow. The rest were red. How many red lollipops did the nurse give away?
6) At the book sale, dictionaries were $0.25, novels were $0.50 and encyclopedias were $1.00. How much would it be for 2 dictionaries, 5 novels and one encyclopedia?
7) Carol made the following pattern: 1179, 1181, 1183, 1185. What would the next number in the pattern be?
8) In Justin’s pencil case there are 5 pencils to every 2 pens. If he has 4 pens, how many pencils does he have?
9) Melanie likes to knit. She knitted 3 scarves every day for 2 weeks. How many scarves did she knit altogether?
10) The clothing store was selling off Olympic t-shirts. On the first day, the shirts cost $20.00. The store reduced the price by half each day. How much were the shirts on the fourth day?
11) 7 students want to share 77 candies. How many candies would each student get?
12) There are 100 books in the classroom. The teacher wanted to put about the same number of books into each of 6 bins. About how many books would go into each bin?
13) Jas counted 20 candies. 2 out of every 5 were red. How many candies were red?
