Inference Question Writing Activity

You have 18 nickels and 4 piggy banks. You want to place the same number of nickels in each bank.
Enrique is decorating a bulletin board. He has 28 triangles and wants to put them in 4 rows.
Marcos has 3 crayons and 5 pencils.
Wanda has 4 bananas and 5 apples.
Eight cats were sitting in the pet store. Some cats were sold. Now there are 6 cats left.
Hector had 6 balloons. Then 3 of them popped.
Ivory has 5 stickers. Luis has 6 stickers.
Maria had 7 nickels. Then she spent two of them.
There are 3 soccer balls. The school needs 6 soccer balls.
Miguel had a dime, a nickel, and a penny in his pocket. His mother gave him 2 dimes, a nickel, and 2 pennies.
Each bag contains 2 apples. Alex has three bags.
Dave has 4 groups of treble clefs with 5 clefs in each group.
Lana has 15 bottles of water. She wants to put the same number of bottles in each of 3 paper bags.
There are 8 frogs hanging out near the pond.
Geri has 24 muffins. She wants to put the same number of muffins in each of 8 paper bags.
There are 4 vases of flowers on a shelf. There are 3 flowers in each vase.
Jane has 3 books. Nathan has 2 books.
Amie saw 4 ladybugs and 2 bees.
Yori has 4 orange slices. Hana also has 4 orange slices.
Percy has 9 strawberries. He eats 3 strawberries.
Paul has 5 shells. John has 5 shells.
Posy has 3 balloons. Andrew has 7 balloons.
Dena has 5 buttons and Carlos has 4.
Ashwin saw 6 butterflies, but 2 flew away.
Jesse wants to divide 12 eggs into thirds.
Ramon wants to divide 8 star stickers into fourths.
A science teacher divided 10 snails in half.
Pete put 73 marbles in one can and 61 marbles in another can. Then Pete moved 3 marbles from the first can to the second can, but the total stayed the same.
Brenda made 162 necklaces. She sold 137 of them at a craft fair.
Josh put 53 marbles in one sack and 42 marbles in another sack. Then Josh moved 3 marbles from the first sack to the second sack, but the total stayed the same.
Rachel purchased some beads to make necklaces for her 15 bridesmaids. She wants to have 26 beads on each necklace.
The Army Marching band is marching in the Saint Patrick’s Day parade. They want to organize the band into 13 rows with 24 marchers in each row.

I3 Conference Lowell Public Schools 3/18/2009

Adapted from Examview Grades 1-4 Problems, Investigations in Number, Data, and Space 2009