Luke
Luke played 9 holes of golf in the morning and 9 more in the afternoon. He played this many holes total.
Correct Response: What is 18 holes?
Clue: Braxton scored 14 points in the first half of a football game and 10 points in the second half. This is how many total points he scored.
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Correct Response: What is 24 points?
Clue: Mr. Hicks has 12 markers on his desk and 9 more in a drawer. This is how many markers he has in total.
Correct Response: What is 21 markers?
Clue: These are all the addition facts that make 10 using two numbers (for example, 1 + 9).
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Correct Response: What are 0+10, 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, and 5+5?
Clue: These keywords usually mean you should subtract in a word problem.
Correct Response: What are minus, fewer, difference, take away, and left?
Clue: Luke caught 15 fish but released 6 of them back into the water. This is how many fish he kept.
Correct Response: What is 9 fish?
Clue: Braxton scored 22 points in a basketball game but missed 9 of his shot attempts. This is how many successful points he scored after subtracting those misses.
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Correct Response: What is 13 points?
Clue: Mr. Hicks had 25 papers to grade and finished grading 14 of them. This is how many papers he still has left to grade.
Correct Response: What is 11 papers?
Clue: These are all the addition facts that make 6.
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Correct Response: What are 0+6, 1+5, 2+4, and 3+3?
Clue: These are common keywords that tell you to add numbers in a word problem.
Correct Response: What are total, sum, altogether, in all, and combined?
Clue: Luke collects pencils and has 4 boxes with 6 pencils in each box. This is how many pencils he has altogether.
Correct Response: What is 24 pencils?
Clue: Braxton made 5 baskets, and each basket was worth 2 points. This is how many points he scored from those baskets.
Correct Response: What is 10 points?
Clue: Mr. Hicks gives each of his 5 students 3 pencils. This is how many pencils he gives out altogether.
Correct Response: What is 15 pencils?
Clue: These are all the subtraction facts that start with 9 and have answers up to 10 (facts like 9 − ___).
Correct Response: What are 9−0, 9−1, 9−2, 9−3, 9−4, 9−5, 9−6, 9−7, 9−8, and 9−9?
Clue: These are keywords that signal you should multiply.
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Correct Response: What are times, groups of, each, and repeated addition?
Clue: Luke hit 20 golf balls at the driving range and split them equally into 5 buckets. This is how many balls are in each bucket.
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Correct Response: What is 4 balls?
Clue: Braxton gained 40 total yards on 8 plays. This is how many yards he averaged per play.
Correct Response: What is 5 yards?
Clue: Mr. Hicks has 20 students and puts them into 4 equal groups. This is how many students are in each group.
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Correct Response: What is 5 students?
Clue: These are all the doubles facts up to 10 (same number added together).
Correct Response: What are 0+0, 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, and 5+5?
Clue: These are keywords that tell you to divide in a word problem.
Correct Response: What are divide, shared equally, split, per, and each group?
Clue: Luke found 8 old pencils in his fishing bag and added them to the 7 pencils in his backpack. This is how many pencils he now has altogether.
Correct Response: What is 15 pencils?
Clue: Braxton scored 7 points in a football game and 12 points in a basketball game. This is how many points he scored altogether.
Correct Response: What is 19 points?
Clue: Mr. Hicks brought 8 books from home and already had 6 books in his classroom. This is how many books he has altogether.
Correct Response: What is 14 books?
Clue: These are all the subtraction facts that equal 4 using numbers up to 10.
Correct Response: What are 4−0, 5−1, 6−2, 7−3, 8−4, 9−5, and 10−6?
Clue: This keyword could mean subtraction or finding how much is left after something is removed.
Correct Response: What is the word “left”?