🦞🐜🦞 Critical Thinking Problem Solving Questions🦞🐜🦞

 Welcome 👦👧boys and girls to another class. Today, we will be going on an adventure where we will be exploring some critical thinking problem solving questions. Read all items carefully before writing your answers. Show all working.

1.A school collects pencils for students in need. Mrs. Chen's class donates 8 boxes of pencils, with 24 pencils in each box. The school's goal is to collect 250 pencils total.
Question: How many more pencils does the school still need to collect to reach their goal?

2: Jamie is in a summer reading contest. She reads 6 books, and each book has 48 pages. Her friend Alex reads 9 books, but each book only has 32 pages.

Question: How many more pages did Jamie read than Alex?

 

3: The school gym has 12 rows of chairs for the school play. Each row holds 35 chairs. The teachers decide to remove 40 chairs from the front to make room for the stage.

Question: How many chairs are now available for the audience?

 

4: A candy store owner orders 7 large jars of gumballs. Each jar contains 125 gumballs. By the end of the first week, customers have bought 360 gumballs.

Question: How many gumballs does the store owner have left?

 

5: Each student in Ms. Rivera's class pledges to walk 3 miles per day for 5 days. There are 24 students in the class. The class goal is to walk 400 total miles.

Question: How many more miles does the class need to walk to meet their goal?

 

 6: A toy factory makes 8 different types of action figures. They produce 150 of each type. At the end of the month, they ship 950 action figures to stores.

Question: How many action figures are left at the factory?

7. A gardener plants 9 rows of vegetable seeds. Each row has 42 seeds. After one week, 67 seeds have not sprouted.
Question: How many seeds actually sprouted?

8. A movie theater has 6 popcorn machines. Each machine can hold 80 bags of popcorn. At the end of the night, the workers count that 275 bags of popcorn were sold.
Question: How many bags of popcorn are left in all the machines combined?