NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

HOMEWORK

Story Problems: The School Library

Solve each problem and show your work. Make sure anyone looking at your work can tell how you solved each problem.

  • 1 Each bookshelf in the school library holds 82 books. There are 24 full bookshelves in the library. How many books are on the shelves?

  • 2 A Grade 5 class is doing a research project about the ocean. The school librarian wants to divide the 336 books about the ocean equally among the 24 students. How many books about the ocean can each student check out from the library?

  • 3 The school library receives a donation of 574 new books. If each bookshelf holds 82 books, how many bookshelves are needed to hold the new books?

NOTE

Students practice solving multiplication and division problems in a story context.

MWI Multiplication and Division


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons