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Practice Problems for Fourth Grade in Number Sense 4N-29)
Answers
vary Place
any of the four operation signs between the nine figures so that they equal 100.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100 Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-28)
Answer: 9 people The
city bus left the terminal and picked up 5 people at the first stop. At the
second stop, 2 people got off and 4 people got on. At the third stop, 3 people
got off and 5 got on. How many passengers were now on the bus? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-27)
Answer: 5,481 traffic lights The
new city of Graphville is laid out on a grid. There are 87 avenues that all run
from north to south. There are 63 streets that all run from east to west. The
avenues intersect the streets, and there is a traffic light at each
intersection. How many traffic light are there? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-26)
Answer: 20 How
many times does the digit nine appear in the numbers from 1 to 100? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-25)
Answer: 23 Julie
was reading a book that had 128 pages in it. Figure out how many number sixes
there were in all the page numbers. Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-24)
Answer: 6 pages Briana
was looking through her math book and discovered that after page 44 the next
page was 51. How many pages were torn out of the book? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-23)
17,26,35,44,53,62,71,80 What
numbers less than 100 make eight when the digits are added together? (example 17
is a solution because 1+7=8) Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-22)
Answer: (several answers) Farmer
Ruth raises cows and geese. One day she looks out into her field and sees some
of each kind of animal. Altogether she sees 20 feet. How many cows and how many
geese does she see? Give all possible answers. Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-21)
Answer: 16 Richard
was collecting shells on the beach. He gave 5 shells to Robin and 3 shells to
Sarah. He has 8 shells left. How many did he collect? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-20)
Answer: the 12th and 24th children are boys with red
shirts wearing glasses, the 18th child is a boy with a red shirt There
are 30 children standing in a straight line in Mrs. Johnson's third-grade class.
Every 4th child is wearing glasses. Every 3rd child is a boy. Every 2nd child is
wearing a red shirt. What can you say about the 12th, 18th, and 24th children? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-19)
Answer: 7 Linda
wants to clean her fish tank. She is putting her fish into a bowl. She picked up
three fish in a net, but one jumped back into the tank. She put the two fish
into the bowl. Then she put the remaining five fish into the bowl. How many fish
does Linda have? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-18)
Answer: smallest number of coins is 6 (5 dimes and 1 nickel); largest number of
coins is 10 (1 dime and 9 nickels) Tanya
has 55 cents in her pocket in nickels and dimes. What is the smallest number of
coins she can have? What are they? What is the largest number of coins she can
have? What are they? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-17)
Answer: 270 Stuart's
dog Barney wagged his tail. Barney had never seen so many dogs at once. Stuart
counted up all the dogs at the dog show: the number is greater than 195; the
number is less than 300; if you count by l0s you say its name; it can by divided
evenly by 3 and 9. How many dogs did Stuart count?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-16)
Answer: 315 Conrad
was scared as he knocked on the door. A low voice said, "Before I open the
door you must name the secret number." Here are some clues: it is greater
than 275; it is less than 325; if you count by 5s you say its name; it can be
divided evenly by 3 and 9. What is the secret number?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-15)
Answer: 60 Yolanda
and Mary are playing a game with a timer and three dice. Each player rolls three
dice and uses the three numerals rolled to make 3-digit numbers. A numeral can
only be used once in a number. Each number is worth 10 points. Mary rolls 3, 6,
and 5. How many points can she earn? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-14)
Answer: 16 banners The
magic show was almost over. Mario was getting ready to do his famous banner
trick. He pulled banners made out of flags from a top hat. First he pulled out a
banner made up of 14 flags. Next he pulled out a banner made up of 23 flags. The
third banner was made up of 18 flags, and the fourth banner was made up of 27
flags. The fifth banner was made up of 22 flags. Mario stopped his banner trick
when there were more than 50 flags in the banner. How many banners did Mario
pull out of the hat? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-13)
Answer: on a calendar Sara
asked, "Where do you see the fraction 23/30 most often?" Can you
answer Sara's question? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-12)
Answer: 6 numbers How
many three-digit numbers contain only the digits 5 and 6? What are they?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-11)
Answer: 9 students There
are 23 students in the class. All but 9 went outside for recess. How many
students stayed inside? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-10)
Answer: least 11; greatest 17 Use
the numbers 2, 5, and 3. What is the least number you can get if you multiply
two of the numbers and add the third to the product? What is the greatest number
you can get? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-9)
Answer: How many legs on seven insects? Make
up a word problem that has 42 as its solution. Explain how someone could solve
the problem. Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-8)
Answer: 36 I
am a number between 31 and 41. I am a multiple of 3. I am an even number. What
number am I? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-7)
Answer: $9 left Sam
had $12. Then he spent one fourth of the money on a book. How much money did Sam
have left? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-6)
Answer: How many bicycles can be made with 45 wheels? Write
a word problem that can be solved by finding 45 divided by 2. Then solve your
problem. Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-5)
Answer: 2/3 of the panes A window in Helen's house is made up of 12 small panes of glass. While playing baseball, she accidentally broke 4 of the panes. What fraction of the panes were not broken? Write to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures.
Jim
bought a bunch of grapes. He ate one half of the grapes. Then his friend Gary
ate one fourth of the remaining grapes. There were 6 grapes left. How many
grapes were in the bunch to begin with? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-3)
Answer: no - not enough flour to bake the cookies Judy
needs 5 pounds of flour to bake some cookies. She has three partially filled
bags of flour. They contain one and one fourth pounds, two and one fourth pound,
and three fourths pound. Does Judy have enough flour to bake the cookies?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-2)
Answer: Mary gives Kim 2 dollars; Judy gives Kim 1 dollar Kim,
Judy, and Mary decided to equally share the cost of a present for their friend.
Kim spent $7, Judy spent $3, and Mary spent $2. How much did each person pay the
others so that everyone spent the same amount?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4N-1)
Answer: 12 days from now Ed
jogs every third day, Ned jogs every 4th day, and Fred jogs every 6th day. If
they all jogged today, when will they all jog on the same day again?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures.
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