These 60 math trivia questions for 4th graders with answers cover place value, multiplication, fractions, geometry, measurement, and number patterns. Every question includes a short explanation so students can check their thinking and teachers can use the set for class warm-ups or review. Begin with place value and rounding, then select other sections to match the skills your class is practicing.
Place value and rounding questions
- What is the value of the digit 6 in 46,281?
Answer: 6,000. Explanation: The 6 is in the thousands place. - What is 7,438 rounded to the nearest hundred?
Answer: 7,400. Explanation: The tens digit is 3, so round down to 7,400. - Write 32,506 in expanded form.
Answer: 30,000 + 2,000 + 500 + 6. Explanation: Add the value of each nonzero digit. - Which is greater: 58,091 or 58,109?
Answer: 58,109. Explanation: Both have 58 thousand, but 109 is greater than 91. - What digit is in the hundreds place in 74,352?
Answer: 3. Explanation: Counting from the right, 2 is in the ones place, 5 is in the tens place, and 3 is in the hundreds place. - What number is 10,000 + 4,000 + 70 + 8?
Answer: 14,078. Explanation: Combine the place values, using 0 in the hundreds place. - What is 62,499 rounded to the nearest thousand?
Answer: 62,000. Explanation: The hundreds digit is 4, so round down. - How many hundreds are in 5,000?
Answer: 50. Explanation: 5,000 ÷ 100 = 50. - What number is 1,000 more than 29,750?
Answer: 30,750. Explanation: Adding 1,000 increases 29 thousand to 30 thousand. - Using each digit 3, 0, 8, and 5 once, what is the greatest four-digit number you can make?
Answer: 8,530. Explanation: Put the digits in descending order.
Multiplication and division questions
- How many stickers are in 8 packs of 6 stickers each?
Answer: 48 stickers. Explanation: 8 × 6 = 48. - If 29 pencils are shared equally among 4 students, how many does each student receive and how many are left over?
Answer: 7 pencils each, with 1 left over. Explanation: 29 ÷ 4 = 7 remainder 1. - What is 7 × 9?
Answer: 63. Explanation: Seven groups of nine make 63. - A gardener plants 72 seeds in 8 equal rows. How many seeds are in each row?
Answer: 9 seeds. Explanation: 72 ÷ 8 = 9. - What is 24 × 3?
Answer: 72. Explanation: 20 × 3 = 60 and 4 × 3 = 12; together they make 72. - Which number makes 6 × __ = 54 true?
Answer: 9. Explanation: 54 ÷ 6 = 9. - Is 8 a factor of 56?
Answer: Yes. Explanation: 8 × 7 = 56, so 56 can be divided evenly by 8. - What is 120 ÷ 10?
Answer: 12. Explanation: Ten groups of 12 make 120. - A library puts 35 books on each of 4 shelves. How many books are on the shelves altogether?
Answer: 140 books. Explanation: 35 × 4 = 140. - There are 53 students going on a trip. Each van holds 6 students. How many vans are needed if every student must have a seat?
Answer: 9 vans. Explanation: Eight vans hold 48 students, so the remaining 5 students need one more van.
Fractions and decimals questions
- Which fraction is equivalent to 1/2: 2/4 or 2/3?
Answer: 2/4. Explanation: Multiplying both the numerator and denominator of 1/2 by 2 gives 2/4. - How is 3/10 written as a decimal?
Answer: 0.3. Explanation: The 3 is in the tenths place. - Which is greater: 3/8 or 5/8?
Answer: 5/8. Explanation: The pieces are the same size, and five pieces are more than three. - What is 2/7 + 3/7?
Answer: 5/7. Explanation: Add the numerators and keep the denominator 7. - What is 7/10 − 4/10?
Answer: 3/10. Explanation: Seven tenths minus four tenths leaves three tenths. - How many fourths make one whole?
Answer: 4 fourths. Explanation: 4/4 equals 1. - Which is greater: 0.6 or 0.4?
Answer: 0.6. Explanation: Six tenths is greater than four tenths. - Write 45/100 as a decimal.
Answer: 0.45. Explanation: The 4 represents four tenths and the 5 represents five hundredths. - A ribbon is 6/8 of a yard long. If 2/8 of a yard is cut off, how much remains?
Answer: 4/8 yard, or 1/2 yard. Explanation: 6/8 − 2/8 = 4/8, which is equivalent to 1/2. - Which is equal to 0.7: 7/10 or 7/100?
Answer: 7/10. Explanation: The digit 7 is in the tenths place.
Geometry questions
- What is the name of an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees?
Answer: A right angle. Explanation: A right angle measures 90 degrees. - How many lines of symmetry does a square have?
Answer: 4. Explanation: Two pass through opposite corners, and two pass through the midpoints of opposite sides. - How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6. Explanation: A hexagon is a six-sided polygon. - What do you call two lines in the same plane that never meet?
Answer: Parallel lines. Explanation: Parallel lines stay the same distance apart. - Is an angle measuring 45 degrees acute, right, or obtuse?
Answer: Acute. Explanation: An acute angle measures less than 90 degrees. - What kind of triangle has three equal sides?
Answer: An equilateral triangle. Explanation: Equilateral means all three sides have equal length. - How many pairs of parallel sides does a rectangle have?
Answer: 2 pairs. Explanation: Each pair of opposite sides is parallel. - What do you call two lines that meet to form right angles?
Answer: Perpendicular lines. Explanation: Perpendicular lines intersect at 90 degrees. - Is an angle measuring 120 degrees acute, right, or obtuse?
Answer: Obtuse. Explanation: It measures more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees. - How many vertices does a cube have?
Answer: 8. Explanation: A cube has four corners on its top face and four on its bottom face.
Measurement, money, and time questions
- How many minutes pass from 2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.?
Answer: 45 minutes. Explanation: From 15 minutes past the hour to the next hour is 45 minutes. - What is the area of a rectangle that is 6 inches long and 4 inches wide?
Answer: 24 square inches. Explanation: Multiply length by width: 6 × 4 = 24. - How many inches are in 3 feet?
Answer: 36 inches. Explanation: Each foot has 12 inches, and 3 × 12 = 36. - What is the perimeter of a rectangle that is 7 centimeters long and 3 centimeters wide?
Answer: 20 centimeters. Explanation: Add all four sides: 7 + 3 + 7 + 3 = 20. - How much money do 3 quarters and 2 dimes make?
Answer: 95 cents. Explanation: Three quarters are 75 cents and two dimes are 20 cents. - A notebook costs $2.35. How much change do you get from $5.00?
Answer: $2.65. Explanation: $5.00 − $2.35 = $2.65. - How many minutes are in 2 hours and 15 minutes?
Answer: 135 minutes. Explanation: Two hours is 120 minutes; add 15. - How many centimeters are in 2 meters?
Answer: 200 centimeters. Explanation: One meter equals 100 centimeters. - A movie starts at 1:40 p.m. and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes. When does it end?
Answer: 3:05 p.m. Explanation: One hour after 1:40 is 2:40; 25 minutes later is 3:05. - A square garden has sides that are each 5 feet long. What is its perimeter?
Answer: 20 feet. Explanation: Add the four equal sides: 4 × 5 = 20.
Patterns and two-step challenge questions
- Starting at 4 and adding 3 each time, what is the fifth number in the sequence?
Answer: 16. Explanation: The first five numbers are 4, 7, 10, 13, and 16. - A class has 6 boxes of 8 markers and gives away 9 markers. How many markers remain?
Answer: 39 markers. Explanation: 6 × 8 = 48, and 48 − 9 = 39. - Start at 100 and subtract 7 each time. What is the fourth number, counting 100 as the first?
Answer: 79. Explanation: The sequence begins 100, 93, 86, 79. - There are 4 bags with 12 marbles in each. The marbles are shared equally among 6 children. How many does each child get?
Answer: 8 marbles. Explanation: 4 × 12 = 48, and 48 ÷ 6 = 8. - A pattern begins at 2 and doubles each time. What is the fifth number?
Answer: 32. Explanation: The numbers are 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. - Maya has 50 cents. She earns 3 more dimes and then spends 25 cents. How much money does she have left?
Answer: 55 cents. Explanation: 50 + 30 − 25 = 55 cents. - A sequence starts at 3 and alternates between adding 2 and adding 5. What is the fifth number?
Answer: 17. Explanation: Starting with 3, the numbers are 3, 5, 10, 12, and 17. - A farmer collects 36 eggs and packs them equally into cartons of 6. If 2 cartons are sold, how many full cartons remain?
Answer: 4 cartons. Explanation: 36 ÷ 6 = 6 cartons, and 6 − 2 = 4. - A number is multiplied by 4, and then 6 is added. The result is 30. What was the starting number?
Answer: 6. Explanation: Subtract 6 from 30, then divide 24 by 4. - A school buys 5 packs of 10 notebooks. It gives 18 notebooks to one class and 16 to another. How many notebooks remain?
Answer: 16 notebooks. Explanation: There are 50 notebooks to start; 50 − 18 − 16 = 16.
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