Mrs. Dewey's class is going on a field trip to the zoo. She asks questions while the students are looking at the animals. The students have note pads with them, but sometimes it is hard to write.

Solve the following problems as if you were on the field trip. Solve them in your head or use a few quick notes.
Think about ways that will make the multiplication easy to do like doubling or breaking numbers apart.
Be prepared to show what you wrote down and to tell what you were thinking.

The Safari Tour takes people in a mini-bus on a tour of the zoo. The bus holds 26 people. It leaves three times each day. How many people can take the tour in one day?
There are five sea lions at the zoo. The class watched the zookeeper feed them. The zookeeper told the class that she measured out 32 pounds of fish for each sea lion. How many pounds of fish did she feed the sea lions altogether?
Jerome bought 7 pencils decorated with zoo animals at the gift shop. Each pencil cost 49¢. How much did he spend on pencils?
Each lion at the zoo eats 8 to 9 pounds of meat a day. About how much meat does a zoo lion eat in a month?