NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

HOMEWORK

Leg Riddles

Birds have 2 legs.

Hamsters have 4 legs.

Beetles have 6 legs.

  • 1 There are 52 legs and they all belong to hamsters. How many hamsters are there?

  • 2 There are 4 beetles, 5 hamsters, and 11 birds in the house. How many legs are there altogether?

  • 3 There are 32 legs in the house. All the legs belong to birds, hamsters, and beetles. How many of each creature—birds, hamsters, and beetles—might be in the house?

    There are many possible answers. How many can you find? Use the table below to show different solutions to this problem.

    Birds Hamsters Beetles
         
         
         
         
         

NOTE

Students solve multiplication and division problems in story problem contexts.


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison Unit 2 Generating and Representing Measurement Data Unit 3 Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems Unit 4 Measuring and Classifying Shapes Unit 5 Large Numbers and Landmarks Unit 6 Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids Unit 7 How Many Packages and Groups? Unit 8 Penny Jars and Towers