Practice Number Sense in Math

Use these practice problems to test your method after reviewing the concept explanation and worked examples.

Quick Recap

An intuitive understanding of numbers, their relative size, and how they relate to each other and to real quantities.

Knowing that 100 is way more than 10, or that 7 is between 5 and 10.

Showing a random 20 of 64 problems.

Example 1

medium
Which is more: 1 ten and 4 ones, or 4 tens and 1 one?

Example 2

challenge
Estimate 50\sqrt{50} to the nearest whole number using perfect-square benchmarks.

Example 3

easy
Round 2323 to the nearest ten.

Example 4

easy
How many hearts do you see? :: ::

Example 5

medium
A jar holds about 100 marbles. A second jar looks 3 times as full. About how many marbles in the second jar?

Example 6

easy
What number is halfway between 1010 and 2020?

Example 7

easy
What is one less than 9?

Example 8

medium
You see 0 cookies on the plate. How many cookies?

Example 9

easy
How many tens are in 60?

Example 10

medium
On a number line from 0 to 100, roughly where does 25 sit?

Example 11

medium
A school has 483 students. Each classroom holds about 30 students. Approximately how many classrooms are needed?

Example 12

easy
Which is larger, 19 or 91?

Example 13

medium
A jar has 3737 marbles. Round the number to the nearest ten.

Example 14

hard
A bake sale has 5858 cupcakes in the morning and 3434 more in the afternoon. About how many cupcakes are there in total? Use rounding to the nearest ten.

Example 15

medium
What is ten less than 3636?

Example 16

medium
Estimate 32+4932 + 49 by first rounding each number to the nearest ten.

Example 17

medium
Without computing exactly, is 98ร—598 \times 5 more or less than 500?

Example 18

easy
Round 6565 to the nearest ten.

Example 19

hard
Start at 6363. Take ten less. Then take ten less again. What number do you land on?

Example 20

easy
Which number is just before 10 when counting up?