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Animal Tails - Math Word Problems

	1. Thirty tadpoles swim in a pond. A third of the tadpoles grow legs, absorb their tails, and hop away. How many tadpoles are left? 10 20 30

	2. Eight groups of deer cross through the meadow. If there are four deer in each group, how many deer have walked by? 12 24 32

	3. If there are seven dams, each built by nine beavers, how many beavers did it take? 63 72 54

	4. There are 6 skunks. Each skunk sprays 13 predators. How many predators have been sprayed? 78 76 83

	5. There are 18 opossum mamas. Each mama has 5 babies. How many babies are there? 80 90 100

	6. Six fox cubs each kill and eat three small prey animals. How many prey have they eaten? 12 15 18

	7. There are 16 eagles, 31 falcon, and 17 owls in the forest. How many birds of prey are there in all? 54 64 34

	8. There are 532 honey bees in the colony. If the colony splits to form two different, equal groups, how many bees are in each new colony? 266 256 271

	9. A group of 20 ants scurries across the counter top. If 10 get trapped in a cleaning cloth, what fraction of ants survived? 1/3 1/2 1/4

	10. A dog likes to sniff porcupines. Everytime she goes near a porcupine, she gets 16 quills stuck in her nose. If she sniffs one porcupine each month, how many quills does she get in her nose in a year? 162 172 192

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