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Dinosaur Museum: Size Up Each Product

Grade 5 multiplication as scaling: compare a product to one factor without multiplying, using fossils, footprints, and museum visitors.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.NF.B.5.a

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 11 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students tell how many times as large a product is than one factor by looking at the other factor.
  • Students compare two products that share a factor without multiplying.
  • Students decide if a product is greater than, less than, or equal to a factor without multiplying.

How to use

Use after introducing multiplication as scaling. Ask students to circle the factor that does the scaling before they answer, and remind them not to multiply.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.NF.B.5.a

Compare the size of a product to the size of one factor without multiplying.

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Dinosaur Museum: Size Up Each Product

Use the other factor to tell how a product compares to one factor.

How many times as large?

Do not multiply. Look at the other factor.

1.
A dinosaur egg at the museum is 18 cm long. Model A of the egg is 4 × 18 cm long. Model B is 8 × 18 cm long.

Model A is   times as long as the real egg.
Model B is   times as long as the real egg.
Model B is   times as long as Model A.

2.
The gift shop sold 1,472 fossil postcards in June. Match each month's sales to how they compare with June's sales.
  1. July: 3 × 1,472
  2. August: 1,472 × 6
  3. September: 1/2 × 1,472
  4. October: 1 × 1,472
  1. A. half as many as June
  2. B. the same as June
  3. C. 6 times as many as June
  4. D. 3 times as many as June
  5. E. 2 times as many as June
3.
Jamal says that 6 × 849 is 6 more than 849. Which sentence fixes his mistake?
  • A. 6 × 849 is 849 more than 6.
  • B. 6 × 849 is 6 less than 849.
  • C. 6 × 849 is 6 times as large as 849.
  • D. 6 × 849 is the same as 849 + 6.

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