1st Grade Word Problems

A

100

Seven red apples and two green apples are in the basket. How many apples are in the basket?

9 apples.

200

Eight balls are in the basket. Two more balls are put in the basket. How many balls are in the basket now?

10 balls.

300

Saylor has 4 oatmeal raisin cookies and 5 gingerbread cookies. How many cookies does Saylor have?

9 cookies

400

Matthew has 20 items in his pencil case. 12 of them are markers and the rest are pens. How many of the items are pens?

8 pens

500

Some plums were in the basket. Four more plums were added to the basket. Now there are nine plums. How many plums were in the basket in the beginning?

5 plums.

B

100

Alyna Lynn has two peaches and Janelle has four peaches. How many peaches do Alyna Lynn and Janelle have together?

6 peaches.

200

6 red apples and 4 green apples are on the tree. How many apples are on the tree?

10 apples

300

Patrick put 1 red cube in a box. Then he put 8 green cubes in the box. How many cubes did Patrick put in the box?

9 cubes

400

Derika has 7 dogs. 3 of the dogs are black and the rest are brown. How many of his dogs are brown?

4 dogs are brown

500

10 apples were sitting on the table. Some of them are green and the rest are red. How many apples could be red and how many could be green?

1 and 9

2 and 8

3 and 7

4 and 6

5 and 5

C

100

4 red flowers and 2 orange flowers are in the vase. How many flowers are in the vase?

6 flowers

200

Salome has a bunch of 7 flowers. She picked two more flowers and added them to her bunch. How many flowers does Salome have in all?

9 flowers

300

There are 6 cats in all. Some are tan and some are black. 4 cats are tan. How many cats are black?

2 cats are black

400

There are 10 mice in all. 4 mice are on the cheese. How many mice are not on the cheese?

6 mice are not on the cheese

500

Mikel has 3 green pencils, 4 purple pencils and 2 yellow pencils. How many pencils does Mikel have?

9 pencils

D

100

Briana has 1 red ball and gets 9 green balls. How many balls does she have now?

10 balls

200

3 students were standing at music and 3 students were sitting on the carpet. Altogether there were how many students at music?

6 students

300

Levi plays at the park. He plays with 3 girls and 5 boys. How many kids does he play with at the park?

8 kids

400

There were not any frogs on the log. 7 frogs hopped over to the log. Now many frogs are on the log?

7 frogs

500

Ma'Kaia has some crayons. She finds 6 more. Now she has 8 crayons. How many did MA'Kaia have before she found more?

2 crayons

E

100

Nhinyo decided to eat 7 Skittles now and he saved 3 for later. Altogether, Nhinyo has how many skittles?

10 skittles

200

10 students were on the playground at the end of recess. 10 students were girls. How many boys were on the playground for recess?

0 boys

300

Danela had 10 stickers on her chore chart. Her mom put 6 stickers on the chart in the morning. How many stickers did Danela earn in the afternoon?

4 stickers

400

Ammy has 9 flowers in a vase. There flowers come in two different colors, red and blue. How many flowers can be red and how many can be blue?

9 red and 0 blue 8 red and 1 blue 7 red and 2 blue 6 red and 3 blue 5 red and 4 blue 4 red and 5 blue 3 red and 6 blue 2 red and 7 blue 1 red and 8 blue 0 red and 9 blue

500

2 cats were walking down the sidewalk. Some cats joined in. At the end of the road there were 8 cats walking down the sidewalk. How many cats joined to walk?

6 cats