Thursday Homework/Classwork

Cognitive Objective 3.1 and 3.2

1. In the entire world, there are about 7 billion people. About 1 billion people live in Africa.
Over 4 times that many people live in Asia. The rest of the people of the world live in
North America, South America, and Europe.
a. About how many people live in the rest of the world?
b. Make an equation to model what the population of the world looks like.
2. A new school bought pencils for all of the classrooms. There are 2 pencils in each
package, and each box of pencils contains 5 packages.
a. How many pencils are there in 4 boxes?
b. Write this problem as an equation.
3. Each school bus has 5 rows of seats with room for 6 students in each row.
a. If the high school has 5 buses, how many students can ride the bus to school?
b. Write this problem as an equation.
4. A school is selling cookies as a fundraiser. Each box contains 4 cookies. Each student can
sell 8 boxes of cookies each day.
a. How many cookies can 5 students sell in 7 days?
b. Write the above problem as an equation.
c. If each box costs 4$, what is the most money that 4 students could make selling
cookies in one day?
d. Write the above problem as an equation.
5. Scott buys a box of blueberry, poppy seed, and chocolate-chip muffins. There are 17
blueberry muffins, 12 chocolate-chip muffins, and 13 poppy seed muffins in the box.
a. How many muffins are in the box?
b. Write the above problem as an equation.
6. Kwan baked 17 raspberry pies and 6 peach pies. Each raspberry pie has 17 slices and
each peach pie has 7 slices. It takes 5 peaches to make one peach pie.
a. How many slices of pie did Kwan bake in all?
b. Write the above problem as an equation.
c. How many peaches did Kwan use to make the peach pies?
d. Write the above problem as an equation.
7. Allison went to the zoo and saw 2 lions, 2 flamingos, and 3 turtles.
a. How many legs did the animals have in all?
b. Write the above as an equation.
8. Tom was drawing on scrap paper. He could fit 8 drawings on each side of a page, front
and back.

a. If he has 8 pages, how many drawings can he make?

b. Write the above as an equation.

Note to Parents:
Does your child need extra help? I suggest the below website for practice problems and brief
explanations if your students misses the problem!
https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-4/multiply-three-or-more-numbers-wordproblems