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Table of Contents

Page 5-6. Introduction

Page 7-8. Lots of Work to Do! Splitting 15 Elves Into 

Groups of 3. 

Page 9. 5 Elves and 20 Toy Trains to Build

Page 10. 4 Elves wrapping 32 Gifts.   Half of the 32 Gifts 

Need Bows Put on by 1 Elf. 

Page 11-12. 5 Elves Loading 45 Presents onto Santa's 

Sleigh. 

Page 13. Mrs. Claus Provides Cookies for the 15 Elves

Page 14-15. The End! 

Page 16. References

Way up North where the air is cold and 

the snow falls heavily.   Fifteen elves 

were just about to get to work. 

There were all sorts of things to get done 

before Christmas day!They had to make 

toys, wrap them up and make sure they 

made it onto Santa’s sleigh! 

One elf, Tinselbelle had a grand idea to cut the time in more than half. 

She suggested they split into groups, the builders, wrappers and loaders.

“Wait!” said Jack, “if there are fifteen of us and three groups of things to get 

done, how many of us should be in each group?!?” 

Holly replied, “Oh that’s easy! That means five of us will be in each group!” 

Tinselbelle told Holly, “Yes, that is correct! Great job! I will send 

you, Holly, with Buddy, Elfie, Jack and Jingle to do the building. 

Charlie, Chippy, Sparkle, Peppermint and Snowball can do the 

wrapping, and that leaves myself, Elvis, Bob, Clyde and 

Sugarplum to do the loading! Let’s get to it elves we don’t have 

much time!” 

Holly, Buddy, Elfie, Jack and Jingle went to the workshop.   Santa told them 

that they needed to build 20 toy trains.   Buddy asked Santa, “How many 

should each of us build?” Santa replied cheerfully, “ among you 5 you can 

figure that out on your own”.   The five used their savvy math skills and found 

out that if each built 4 toy trains that would equal 20 total!    They quickly got to 

work and did not stop until all 20 toy trains were made. 

Across Santa’s workshop there was Charlie, Chippy, Sparkle, Peppermint 

and Snowball.   They were in charge of wrapping 32 presents total. Charlie 

and Chippy quickly figured out that Peppermint, Snowball and themselves 

needed to wrap 8 presents each to equal 32.   Sparkle was in charge of 

putting bows on only half of the 32 presents.   Sparkle divided 32 in half and 

calculated that she would need 16 total bows.   So she got her 16 bows and 

they were all ready to get wrapping!

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