Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Choose a strategy from the list or use another

strategy you know to solve each problem.

9. Of 24 muffins for sale,
   
   1
   2
   are bran,
   
   ^14
   are corn, and the rest are oat.
   How many oat muffins are for sale?


10. Jan bought half a loaf of rye bread.
    She gave half of her piece to Ramon.
    Ramon’s piece weighs
    ^14
    lb. How much
    did the original loaf of bread weigh?


11. A carrot has fewer calories than an
    apple. An oat bar has more calories
    than an apple. Does a carrot or an
    oat bar have more calories?


12. Sue’s trail mix is
    
    1
    2
    toasted oats,
    

1

4 
raisins,

and 


1

4 
carob drops. She has 3 oz of raisins.

Does she have enough raisins to make

16 oz of mix?

13. Wes ate a snack of 150 calories. The
    low-fat yogurt he ate had half the calories
    of the oatmeal cookie. How many calories
    did the yogurt have?

Use the pictograph for problems 14–16.

14. What fractional part of the mini-muffins
    were blueberry muffins?


15. How many more apple muffins than
    blueberry muffins were there?


16. Liu bought
    
    1
    2
    of the cinnamon muffins.
    How many muffins did she buy?

Mini-Muffin Menu

apple

blueberry

cinnamon

corn

Key: Each 5 mini-muffins.

Use These Strategies

Choose the Operation

Guess and Test

Use Simpler Numbers

Use More Than One Step

Work Backward

Logical Reasoning

Use a Diagram/Graph

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