Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Use these Strategies

Make a Table

Choose the Operation

Use More Than One Step

Find a Pattern

Use a Diagram/Graph

Interpret the Remainder

Choose a strategy from the list or

use another strategy you know

to solve each problem.

10. Birthday candles are sold in packs of 12.
    How many packs should you buy if you
    need to put 35 candles on a cake?


11. Jeff makes his own wrapping paper with cat
    and dog stickers in 8 rows, following this
    pattern: 2 cats, 4 dogs, 3 cats, 5 dogs, 4 cats.
    What is the pattern for the last 3 rows?


12. Joan needs 48 party favors. They come in
    packs of 12. How many packs will she
    need to buy?


13. A store’s display window is filled with 350
    balloons. They came in packs of 24. How
    many packs were used?


14. Kim has $.95. Helium balloons are
    $11.28 a dozen. Does Kim have enough
    to buy one balloon?


15. On Mondays a shop gives a discount
    of 10¢ for every dollar spent. Te d spent
    $14 on Friday. How much would he have
    saved if he had shopped on Monday?


16. Al spent $16.28. Julia spent 4 times as
    much. How much money did she spend?

Use the graph for problems 17 and 18.

17. Of which patterns did the store sell
    more than 20 but fewer than 40 packs?


18. Of which pattern did the store sell about
    15 fewer packs than it did for teddy bears?

Horses

Stars

Teddy

Bears

Flowers

Dinosaurs

Number of Packs

Patterns of Paper

010 20 30 40

Wrapping Paper

Sales

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