Multiplication and Division in Number

Stories

Which animal could weigh 30 times as much as a 50-pound

sea otter?

• What do you want to find out?

• What information do you know from reading the story?

• What will you do?

• Answer the question and include a number model.

• Does your answer make sense? How do you know?

How many 50-pound sea otters together would weigh about 1

ton?

(1 ton = 2,000 pounds)

“Hey, about how many of us would weigh a ton?”

What do you want to find out?

What information do you know from reading the story?

What will you do?

Answer the question and include a number model.

Does your answer make sense? How do you know?

Which animal could weigh about 10 times as much as a 34-pound

American porcupine?

Harp Seal

Northern Fur Seal

American Alligator

Atlantic Green Turtle

White-Tailed Deer

Black Bear

Which animal could weigh about 30 times as much as a 5-

pound snowshoe hare?

Puma or

White-Tailed Deer

How many 300-pound northern fur seals weigh as much as a

6,000 pound pilot whale?

20

How many 80-pound white-tailed deer weigh as much as a

560-pound black bear?

7

Math Journal

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Exit Slip

• Tell me one thing that you learned today.

• Solve the following problems:4 x 80=___ 6 x 300 = ____