Fourth Grade Daily Routines

Problem of the DayQuarter 1

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.

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.

Day 3

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

Day 4

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

Day 5

Name a number 1,000 less that each of these numbers.

52,420__________________341,688 __________________81,233____________________760,721___________________

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.

Day 7

Round each of these numbers. To the nearest ten: 14 96 566

To the nearest hundred: 434 1,073 5,250

To the nearest thousand: 3,881 5,499 2,950

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.

Day 9

Write >, <, or = in each blank.3 + 5 _____ 89 ______ 4 + 311 ______ 9 +114 ______ 6 + 712 ______ 4 + 97 + 4 ______ 122 + 9 ______ 138 + 5 ______ 139 + 6 ______ 15

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

Day 11

Write this number in at least three different ways. Explain your answers.

1,306,500

1.____________________2.____________________3.____________________

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______________

Day 13

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

Day 14

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

Day 15

Explain how to subtract 395 from 500 in your head.

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?

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?

Day 18A 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.

Day 19A 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?

Day 20

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

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.

Day 22

Write a word problem to match this model.

35 beads

18 beads How many more?

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.

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.

Day 25

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

Day 26

 Find all the factor pairs for the following numbers:

24 48 80

Day 27

Explain how to use arrays to determine if a numberis prime or composite. Give an example.

Day 28

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

Day 29

Which number is prime? Explain your answer.9

61121100

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.

Day 31

Solve the following problems. Describe any patterns you see.

5 x 55 x 50

50 x 50

Day 32There 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.

Day 33

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

Day 34The 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.

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.

Day 36At 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?

Day 37Ming-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.

Day 38A 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?

Day 39The 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Day 44Mr. 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?

Day 45Mount 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.