Real World Examples

44 made out of silly putty.

A domino says 44

44 drawing with 44 of everything.

I won't see this around too often
but if I lived in Missouri I'd see
it all the time.

Different Languages

     Forty-four in Italian is quarantaquatro. 44 in Spanish is cuarenta y cuatro. In French, 44 is quarante-quatre. 44 is vierund vierzig in German.

Facts About 44

     44% of kids watch TV before they go to bed. Barack Obama is our 44th president. Wyoming was the 44th state to be in the United States of America. 44 is the number of candles in a box of Hanukkah candles.

Multi-step Problems

     There are 44 people in a huge room. If 22 people leave, then 2 groups of 11 people come in, how many people will be in the room in all?

     June has 44 e-mails. If she deletes 22, gets 33, then then deletes 11 more, how many e-mails will she have left?

Word Problems

     Plus | Shelly has 22 rocks in her collection. She goes to the beach and collects 22 more. How many rocks does she have in all?

     Minus | Ralph 55 books at his garage sale. If he sells 11 of them, how many will he have left?

     Times | There are 11 soup cans in Sally's pantry. If they buy 11 more cans of soup on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then how many soup cans will they have in all?

     Divided by | Billy has 88 mini cookies. If he shares the mini cookies equally with 1 friend, how many cookies will  each person get?

Pattern

     The pattern in which my number is the 5th is this: 0, 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99.

Traits of 44

     My number is even, it is a composite number, and it is a multiple of 1,2, and 4.

Factor Pairs

     Forty-four's factor pairs are 11 times 4, 22 times 2, and [of course] 44 times 1.

Why I chose it

     I chose this number because  my birthday is on May 22, and my mom's birthday is on March 22, so we are 2 months apart. My dad's birthday is on November 1, and my sister's birthday is on September 1, so they are 2 months apart too. I wanted to choose a number bigger than my birthday, so I immediately thought of this odd connection. I decided to combine my mom's birthday and mine.