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Practice Video Tools Games

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Mal downloads 4 songs each week for 5 weeks. Then he Use Appropriate
sorts the songs into equal groups. There are 10 songs in Tools
each group. How many groups are there?

Tell how you can use tools to help solve the problem.

• I can decide which tool is appropriate. You can use appropriate

• I can use a tool to represent the situation. tools such as grid paper,
counters, cubes, or other objects
• I can use the tool correctly. to help solve problems.

Solve the problem. Explain how you

used the tool you chose.

I can use grid paper. Each shaded square

represents 1 song.

I shade 4 squares for each week. There are

20 songs. Then I separate them into groups
of 10. There are 2 groups.

Use Appropriate Tools  

Niko bought 4 stamps each week for 3 weeks. He wants to put
6 stamps on each page of his album. How many pages will Niko use?

1. Tell how you can use tools to help solve the problem.

2. Choose a tool to represent the problem. Explain why you chose

that tool.

3. Solve the problem. Explain how you used the tool you chose.

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Summer Jobs 
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The table at the right shows how much Tony earns per $
hour for his summer jobs. One day, Tony spends 3 hours
running errands. He wants to use the money from this $1 $9
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job to buy two banners.

4. Use Appropriate Tools  Choose a tool to represent the Tony’s Summer Jobs
problem. Explain why you chose that tool.

DATA
Job Hourly Pay
Walking Dogs $8
Mowing Lawns $10
Running Errands $6

5. Make Sense and Persevere  What do you need to find

out before you can solve the problem? Show a way to
find this. You can use a tool to help.

6. Reasoning  Does Tony have enough money? Use what

you know to solve the problem. You can use appropriate
tools to represent different
parts of a problem.

7. Make Sense and Persevere  Did you need all the

information in the table to solve the problem? Explain.

8. Construct Arguments  Tony decides not to buy the

banners. Does he have enough money to buy one cap
instead? Explain why or why not.

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