Benjamin’s Extraordinary Story Problem

Benjamin entered Riverside School in 2008 as a second grader. He had difficulty decoding words, comprehending text, and writing. Benjamin has worked hard to expand his vocabulary and to include detail in his writing. When given an assignment to write a division story problem, Benjamin took the assignment to heart and wrote an entire story including multiple word problems. Benjamin left class beaming after receiving a round of applause from his admiring classmates. He has come a long, long way.
Benjamin’s Story Problem (retyped exactly as Benjamin wrote the story).
Linda is going to her job at Mr. Dividen’s shop. On her way, she fond these 5 cute little bag’s and 255 rocks (for some weird reason, she loves rocks). Linda really wants to put these rocks equilly in each bag but she does not know division. Can you please help her out. Linda cannot be late for work. If she is she will have to count stock that is in the back of the store… Thank you for your help, but Linda is late for work. When she got there, Mr. Dividens made Linda count the big items in stock. Linda counted 65 big items on the left side of the room and 112 on the right. Can you please help Lind find total number of big items in stock. Also, Linda think that there is a 5 in the hundreds place but she gets things wrong a lot. Was she wrong again?.. Linda was just informed that 9x the number of big stock is coming in today on the truck. She needs to add that number to the number of stock she already counted but she does not know what 9x the number she already counted is. Can you do it for her?.. Thank you so much for your help. Linda now needs to put the stock into 6 bins. Use the answer you just go as the dividen in this problem. Also, there is a for remainder of there is any… Now it is time for Linda to leave work. She goes home and greets her cute dogs. Linda looks in their dish and finds that there are only three bones in the dish. Linda went to her closets to look for some more bones but she did not find any. Linda always try to keep 5 bones in the bowl all the time. Linda really did want all 5 bones in that dish so Linda desides to go a drug store across the street from her call Addentoneo’s Products! Linda went to the store and found the bones but Linda did not know how much bones to get. She always like 5 bones in the bowl but there are only 3. Can you help Linda out?
Bonus: The bones keep going missing, bringing it down from 5 to 3 every night for 7 days. Linda get enough bone to make 5 every night. How much bones would Linda bought?

What a wonderful and creative story from Benjamin. I’m proud of him and the great job he is doing at Riverside!(with all YOUR help!)
WOW! This story has so many key points—love the idea of the truck unloading and the fact that there is a problem at every turn. This boy really knows how to “spin a yarn”. Good luck to Linda and all of her future endeavors!
Benjamin is our grandson. We are so very proud of him.
Riverside has really made a difference for him. Keep up
the great worki.
Wow! If Linda solves all these problems she should get a job in accounting. What a great story Benjamin has written – with a math problem around every ccrner. How does it end? We are getting out pencil and paper to figure it out!
Awesome job, Benjamin! I can’t believe how many problems you put in that one creative story. Boy, Linda sure has her work cut out for her!
Riverside has been such a blessing to Benjamin and our family. Riverside took a little boy who felt defeated, and made him feel successful. We are so grateful!!!!
I have heard so much about this amazing story problem and now I can see what all of the hype has been about! I am so very proud of Benjamin and all that he has accomplished in his time at Riverside. He is truly a special kid!
Wow!!!!!!!!! So awesome, So stupendous, your story is not only fun to read but a challenge too! How did you do it? I know, because you are amazing and fun too!!!!!!!!!!!
Mrs. Wms and Duso
What a fantastic tale of math adventures. We hope that Benjamin will continue to write more adventures for Linda. We look forward to the next one. Great job Benjamin!