Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Use These Strategies

Work Backward

Choose the Operation

Logical Reasoning

Guess and Test

Choose a strategy from the list or use

another strategy you know to solve

each problem.

9. Emily picked 34 apples. Half of the
   apples were Golden Delicious. How
   many were not Golden Delicious?


10. Mia, Nate, and Rob each picked either
    apples, pears, or grapes. Mia did not
    pick pears, and Rob did not pick
    grapes. Nate shared his apples. Which
    fruit did each person pick?


11. Tia gave 5 apples to Ms. Lu and
    half of what she had left to her
    grandmother. She used the remaining
    6 apples in a pie. How many apples
    had she brought home?


12. Liam picked 124 apples and Cleo
    picked 152. The pick-your-own apples cost about
    4 cents each. Did Cleo spend more than $ 5?


13. Chad stopped picking fruit at 2:30 P.M.
    He had picked pears for 1 hour and apples
    for 45 minutes. When did he start picking?


14. One apple has about 25 seeds. There are
    about 160 apples in a bushel. About how
    many seeds are in a bushel of apples?

Use the graph for problems 15 and 16.

15. How many more peach than plum trees
    were planted in Oscar’s Orchard?


16. What kind of trees are double the
    number of pear trees?

175

150

125

100

75

50

25

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Number of Trees

Peach ApplePear Plum

Types of Trees

Oscar's Orchard

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