Multiplication Stories

Second Grade, Third Grade Math

Math can be made into short stories! Inspire your students to get creative with this lesson plan that will help
them practice making and solving word problems.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to write multiplication word problems.

Materials and preparation

Multiplication Word Problems worksheet

Paper
Pencils
Board
Marker

Attachments

Multiplication Word Problems (PDF)

Introduction (5 minutes)

Ask your students to identify the problem in one of their favorite stories.
Tell your students that they will be coming up with their own math story problems.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (5 minutes)

Explain that math can be put into story problems. Have the students come up with some examples with
you. For example: It takes five apples to make a pie. Suzie wants to make four apple pies. How many
apples will she need? (5 x 4 = 20 apples)

Guided Practice (10 minutes)

Show students the Multiplication Word Problems worksheet.

Go through the worksheet together as a class.
Draw pictures on the board to represent pictures from the worksheet. Isolating the pictures can help your
students write their word problems.

Independent working time (15 minutes)

Have students think up of at least three different original math stories to write down.
Encourage students to come up with a theme to help them think of stories. For example, they could write
about baking, sports, school, or animals.

Differentiation

Enrichment: Direct your students to come up with one long math story that involves three math
problems rather than three separate math problems.
Support: Focus on an area of multiplication, such as multiplying by 2's or 5's.

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Assessment (5 minutes)

While your students are making math stories, walk around, making sure that their stories are
multiplication problems.
If your students are making only addition math stories, ask guiding questions that would help them turn
the stories into multiplication word problems. For example, Can we add one more pie or fruit here?

Review and closing (10 minutes)

Have students share their math stories with the class.

Ask other students to determine the answers to others' word problems.

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Multiplication Word Problems

Game s
B all To s s

TICK E T S

Use the picture above to answer the questions.

Write the answer in the form of a number sentence.
Example: 2 x 5 = 10

The Ferris wheel costs 5 tickets to An ice cream cone costs $3. How
1 ride. How many tickets does it cost
4 much will 5 children spend
for 5 people to ride? buying ice cream cones?

2 The roller coaster cars hold 2 5 There are 4 people who play the
people each. How many can 10 ball toss. Each game costs 5 tickets.
roller coaster cars hold? How many tickets are used?

There are 5 children who bought There are 6 people who sell
3 6 balloons in the park.
balloons. Each child bought 2
balloons. How many balloons in If they each have 5 balloons,
all did they buy? how many balloons are there
in all?

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Name Date

Multiplication Word Problems

Game s
B all To s s

TICK E T S

Use the picture above to answer the questions.

Write the answer in the form of a number sentence.
Example: 2 x 5 = 10

The Ferris wheel costs 5 tickets to An ice cream cone costs $3. How
1 ride. How many tickets does it cost
4 much will 5 children spend
for 5 people to ride? buying ice cream cones?
5 x 5 = 25 3 x 5 = 18

2 The roller coaster cars hold 2 5 There are 4 people who play the
people each. How many can 10 ball toss. Each game costs 5 tickets.
roller coaster cars hold? How many tickets are used?

2 x 10 = 20 4 x 5 = 20

There are 5 children who bought There are 6 people who sell
3 6 balloons in the park.
balloons. Each child bought 2
balloons. How many balloons in If they each have 5 balloons,
all did they buy? how many balloons are there
in all?
5 x 2 = 10 6 x 5 = 30

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