Transcript Multiplication and Division in Number Stories

Multiplication and Division
in Number Stories
Which animal could weigh 30
times as much as a 50-pound
sea otter?
• What do you want to find out?
• What information do you know from reading
the story?
• What will you do?
• Answer the question and include a number
model.
• Does your answer make sense? How do you
know?
How many 50-pound sea otters
together would weigh about 1 ton?
(1 ton = 2,000 pounds)
“Hey, about
how many of
us would
weigh a ton?”
What do you want to find out?
What information do you know from reading
the story?
What will you do?
Answer the question and include a number
model.
Does your answer make sense? How do you
know?
Which animal could weigh about 10
times as much as a 34-pound American
porcupine?
Atlantic Green
Turtle
Harp Seal
American
Alligator
Northern
Fur Seal
White-Tailed Deer
Black Bear
Which animal could weigh about
30 times as much as a 5-pound
snowshoe hare?
Puma
or
White-Tailed
Deer
How many 300-pound northern
fur seals weigh as much as a
6,000 pound pilot whale?
20
How many 80-pound white-tailed
deer weigh as much as a 560pound black bear?
7
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Exit Slip
• Tell me one thing that you learned
today.
• Solve the following problems:
4 x 80=___
6 x 300 = ____