Fourth Grade Daily Routines

1. Fourth Grade Daily Routines Problem of the Day Quarter 1

2. Day 1 Chen, Wendy, Lourdes, and Rick have bikes. Each bike is a different color: red, green, black, or white. Chen’s bike is not red. Rick’s bike is not green. Lourdes bike is not black or red. What color is each person’s bike? Explain how you found your answer.

3. Day 2 Mrs. Delgado has four $10 dollar bills, three $100 dollar bills, and six $1 bills. How much money does she have? Explain your answer.

4. Day 3 Skip count by thousands from 1,000 to 12,000. Describe any patterns you notice.

5. Day 4 Write the number 1,403 in five different ways. Explain your answer.

6. Day 5 Name a number 1,000 less that each of these numbers. 52,420__________________ 341,688 __________________ 81,233____________________ 760,721___________________

7. Day 6 On Saturday 21,654 people attended a game in a stadium. On Sunday, 20,453 people attended. To the nearest hundred, about how many more people attended on Saturday than on Sunday? Explain your answer.

8. Day 7 Round each of these numbers. To the nearest ten: 1496 566 To the nearest hundred: 434 1,073 5,250 To the nearest thousand: 3,881 5,499 2,950

9. Day 8 A school picnic committee has a budget of $25 for paper and plastic products. One package of paper plates costs $6.79. A package of napkins costs $3.29. A package of cups costs $3.25. A box of plastic forks costs $2.59. If the committee needs two packages each of plates and cups, one package of napkins, and one box of forks, will they stay within their budget? Estimate to find your answer.

10. Day 9 Write >, <, or = in each blank. 3 + 5 _____ 8 9 ______ 4 + 3 11 ______ 9 +1 14 ______ 6 + 7 12 ______ 4 + 9 7 + 4 ______ 12 2 + 9 ______ 13 8 + 5 ______ 13 9 + 6 ______ 15

11. Day 10 Put the following numbers in order from least to greatest. Explain your answer using specific place value language. 65,783; 56,435; 165,457; 4,398; 6,987; 76,342; 2,651

12. Day 11 Write this number in at least three different ways. Explain your answers. 1,306,500 1.____________________ 2.____________________ 3.____________________

13. Day 12 Name a number 10,000 more than each of these numbers. Explain your answers. 56,347_____________ 10,921______________ 624,088_____________ 98,159______________ 861,976______________ 245,635______________

14. Day 13 What is the sum of 13 + 245 rounded to the nearest ten? Explain your answer.

15. Day 14 Write an explanation of how you can add 15 + 8 + 5 in your head.

16. Day 15 Explain how to subtract 395 from 500 in your head.

17. Day 16 Carmen buys a swimsuit that costs 39.05. She gives the salesclerk a $50 dollar bill and one nickel. How much change should Carmen receive? Why did she give the clerk a nickel?

18. Day 17 Mitch has saved $13.00 so that he can buy a t-shirt. When he goes to the store, he finds a second t-shirt that he wants to but for his brother’s birthday. If each t-shirt costs $8.50, how much more money does Mitch need to buy both t-shirts?

19. Day 18 A museum holds two craft days for children. They have enough supplies for 138 projects. On Saturday, 72 children make projects. On Sunday, 57 children make projects. If each child makes one project, does the museum have enough supplies for all the children? Explain how you can use estimation to answer the question.

20. Day 19 A theater can hold as many as 1,500 people at one showing. About 1,375 people attend each of four showings on Saturday. To the nearest hundred, how many people attended the four showings?

21. Day 20 Write a change problem to match this equation. 15 + r = 45

22. Day 21 Rodney spent $1.95 for a pen and $3.20 for a pad of paper. He has $3.35 left. How much did he start with? Explain your answer.

23. Day 22 Write a word problem to match this model. 35 beads 18 beads How many more?

24. Day 23 Mr. Williams buys a CD for $14.95, a DVD for $19.50, and a magazine for $3.75. He pays $2.67 in sales tax. If he gives the salesperson $45.00, how much change will he receive? Explain your answer.

25. Day 24 Raleigh is North Carolina’s second largest city with a population of 368,944. Charlotte is the largest with a population of 687,650. How many more people does Charlotte have? Explain your answer.

26. Day 25 Skip count by 5’s from 450 to 485. Describe any patterns you see.

27. Day 26 Find all the factor pairs for the following numbers: 24 48 80

28. Day 27 Explain how to use arrays to determine if a number is prime or composite. Give an example.

29. Day 28 28, 42, 84 and 35 are all multiples of what number. Explain how you know. Find four more multiples of this number.

30. Day 29 • Which number is prime? Explain your answer. • 9 • 61 • 121 • 100

31. Day 30 Mr. Kaku has 63 CD’s. Each shelf of his CD storage unit holds 9 CD’s. Draw a picture to show how many shelves Mr. Kaku’s CDs will fill.

32. Day 31 Solve the following problems. Describe any patterns you see. 5 x 5 5 x 50 50 x 50

33. Day 32 There are 6 fourth grade classrooms in our school. In each classroom there are 25 students. How many students are there altogether, in our fourth grade? Explain how you found your answer.

34. Day 33 Explain what a model array of 9 x 56 would look like. Show your work and your solution.

35. Day 34 The Farmer’s market has 8 different vendors, each sell 13 different kinds of vegetables. How many different kinds of vegetables does the Farmer’s Market have to offer? Solve this multiplication problem using two different strategies. Explain your answers.

36. Day 35 Victoria is buying helium balloons for her gymnastics group to carry in a parade. There are four people in her group and each will carry 2 balloons. If the balloons cost $3.12, how much will Victoria spend on balloons? Explain your answer.

37. Day 36 At a street fair, a fruit stand sells 105 pears. It sells four times as many oranges as pears, and two times as many apples as oranges. To the nearest hundred, how many of each fruit is sold?

38. Day 37 Ming-Na’s small town is celebrating Chinese New Year. Last year, 615 people attended the celebration. About three times as many people are expected this year. About how many people are expected this year? Explain your answer.

39. Day 38 A large box of cereal holds about 19 servings. A community center orders 5 large boxes of the cereal. About how many servings will that provide?

40. Day 39 The Blue Moon Bakery in Cary bakes 27 dozen cakes every day. What is the total number of cakes that they bake in one day? Explain your method of multiplication.

41. Day 40 Use the area method to show 67 x 43. Explain your diagram.

42. Day 41 Mrs. Leonard is at the Farmer’s Market. She see that dates for baking are on sale. Each package of dates costs $5.68. Mrs. Leonard only has $31.00 with her. How many packages can she buy? Explain a quick way to decide how many packages she can afford to buy.

43. Day 42 Describe how you would use base 10 blacks to model 6 x 4,000. Use words and pictures to explain your answer.

44. Day 43 Ninety-four people are in line for seats at a theater. Each row in the theater has 8 seats in it. What is the least number of rows that will needed to seat everyone? Explain your answer.

45. Day 44 Mr. Rivera is making trail mix for his son’s club fundraiser. He makes 203 bags of the mix and packs them in boxes of 8 bags each. He tells his son that he can keep any bags of mix that do not fit in the boxes. What part of the problem tells you how many bags of mix his son can keep? How many bags does he keep?

46. Day 45 Mount Mitchell is 6,684 feet tall. If you were to hike the mountain for days, walking an equal distance every day, how many feet would you need to hike each day to reach the top? Explain your answer.