LESSON 6 Workshop: Multiplication and Division Stories

Use Self-Check: Questions 1–4 and the Multiplication and Division Stories Workshop Menu in the Student Activity Book to check your progress with solving and showing multiplication and division stories.

Self-Check: Questions 1–4

Show how you solved each problem. Include number sentences and drawings.

1. Lily wants to decorate her shirt with the name of her school, “HOLLYWOOD.” If each letter costs 5 cents, how much will all the letters cost to decorate her shirt?
2. Lily decides to decorate 3 more shirts the same way. How much will all the letters for these shirts cost?
3. The letter “O” comes in a package of 12 letters. How many shirts can Lily decorate?
4. The letter “L” comes in a package of 12 letters. How many shirts can Lily decorate?

Story Problems

Look at your Multiplication and Division Stories Workshop Menu to choose strategies to solve Questions 5–16.

5. Jason decorated his T-shirt with the faces of his friends. He put four faces each in five rows. How many faces are on Jason's T-shirt?
6. Rosa decorated her T-shirt with flowers. She put seven flowers in three rows.
1. How many flowers are on her T-shirt?
2. It took Rosa 30 minutes to sew on her first row of seven flowers. How long did it take to sew all the flowers onto her T-shirt?
7. Mara decorated her T-shirt with 20 stars. She has four rows. How many stars should she put in each row?