Decomposing Arrays

Word Problems

By Naomi Church

Eliana’s Princesses

• Eliana loves to play with her Disney Princess dolls. She organizes them neatly onto 3 shelves in her room. She decides to put 4 princesses on each shelf.

• Build an array that matches this scenario.

Gavin’s Animals

• In Gavin’s room animals are everywhere! His mommy wants to clean up his room so she doesn’t step on all of the animals! Mommy arranges the animals on Gavin’s shelves so that there are five animals on each of the six shelves.

• Build an array that matches this scenario.

FSU Marching Chiefs

•At halftime, the Marching Chiefs were lined up on the field in six rows. Each row consisted of eight band members.

•Build an array that matches this scenario.