Some open ended problems......

1. In my pocket I have 75 cents. What coins might I have?
   
   
   
   
2. I bought something at a supermarket and got 5 (or change to 35 cents change) cents change. How much did it cost and how much money did I give to pay for it?
   
   
   
   
3. My father is double my age. How old might I be?
   
   
   
   
4. I have halved a number and kept halving for a total of five times. The answer was a whole number. What number might I have started with?
   
   
   
   
5. Yesterday I put some counters into groups with the same number in each group. I cannot remember the groups but I can remember that there were 12 counters (you can change this number). What might the groups have been?
   
   
   
   
6. The chef has 24 pizzas on trays in the oven. There is the same number of pizzas on each tray. What might this look like?
   
   
   
   
7. There are 5 vehicles in the car park. How many wheels might there be?
   
   
   
   
8. When the children in a class got into groups of 4 there was one child left over. How many children might there be in the class?
   
   
   
   
9. Two problems for 8 divided by 2 are:

There are 8 tennis players. How many teams of 2 are there? AND

There are 8 tennis players. If you make 2 teams, how many players will be in each team?

Make up two different types of word problems for 36 divided by 3.

    10.  A school has 400 students. They all come to school by bus, and each bus carries the

same number of students. How many students might there be on each bus?