If your mom is three times older than you are, how old is she on your 11th birthday? Young mathematicians answer this and four other multiplication word problems using real-life scenarios. They consider bags of cookies, pounds of garbage, cost of bubblegum, and rows of chairs for a play, using multiplication to solve each one.

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Instructional Ideas

• Use these multiplication word problems as text in a classroom book, asking each learner to illustrate his/her page and come up with the solution

Classroom Considerations

• There may not be enough room for pupils to show their work, especially if they write large

Pros

• The applicable nature of these word problems makes multiplication's many uses obvious

Cons

• None