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100

Emmanuel has 3 lollipops and he gets 4 more. How many lollipops does he have now? 

3 + 4 = 7

Emmanuel has 7 lollipops. 

100

The kitchen has 10 pieces of plastic food and then Ms. Peggy bought some more pieces of plastic food. Now there are 16 pieces of plastic food.

How many pieces did Ms. Peggy buy?

10 + ? = 16

Ms. Peggy bought __ pieces. 

100

The crayon basket had some glue stick and then Raet put in 2 more. Now the basket has 6 glue sticks. How many did the basket have at the beginning? 

? + 2 = 6

The basket had __ glue sticks at the beginning. 

100

Ayden has 10 cousins at his party and then 5 leave. How many cousins are left? 

10 - 5 = ?

Ayden has 5 cousins left. 

100

Raet has 9 bracelets but she takes some off. Now she has 3. How many bracelets did she take off? 


9 - ? = 3

Raet has 6 bracelets left.

200

Mason's mom gave him 5 toy cars and his dad gave him 6 toy cars. How many toy cars does he have now? 

5 + 6 = 11

Masons has 11 toy cars. 

200

First, Ms. Ruth gave me 2 chocolates and then Ms. Lema gave me some more chocolates. Now I have 10 chocolates. How many chocolates did Ms. Lema give me?

2 + ? = 10

Ms. Lema gave me ___ chocolates. 

200

At the park kids are on the swings. There were some empty swings and then 3 kids left. Now there are 6 empty swings in all. How many were empty at the beginning?

? + 3 = 6

At the beginning there were __ empty swings.

200

Gabriel has 7 cousins. 5 are girls and the rest are boys. How many cousins are boys? 

7 - 5 = ?

Gabriel has 2 boy cousins. 

200

There are 13 home lunch kids but some children forgot to bring their lunchboxes to lunch. When the class gets to the cafeteria only 10 children have their lunchboxes. How many kids forgot their boxes?

13 - ? = 10

3 children forgot their lunchboxes. 

300

Gabriel has 5 soccer balls, 5 baseballs, and 3 basketballs. How many balls does he have in all? 

5 + 5 + 3 = 13

Gabriel has 13 balls in all. 

300

Ms. Maroney read 9 pages of her book in the morning and some more pages on the bus. At the end of the day she had read 12 pages.

How many pages did she read on the bus?

9 + ? = 12

300

Liam has a pencil basket and then Harrison gave him 6 more pencils. Now the basket has 12 pencils. How many pencils did Liam have to start? 

? + 6 = 12


Liam had __ pencils to start. 

300

Aidan has 19 LOLs but when he went to school, he left 10 at home. How many LOLs did Aidan bring to school?

19 - 10 = ?

Aidan brought 9 LOLs to school.

300

Ms. Peggy made 14 cookies but she gave a few to Ms. García. She only has 2 cookies left. 

How many cookies did she left to Ms. García? 

14 - ? = 2

400

Joshua has 7 Spanish books and 8 English books in his backpack. How many books does he have in his backpack in total?

7 + 8 = 15

Joshua has 15 books. 

400

On Saturday, there were 8 children at the park and on Sunday, there were just a few kids there. By the end of the weekend, a total of 12 children had visited the park.

How many kids visited on Sunday?

8 + ? = 12

__ kids visited on Sunday.

400

I have a big bag of cubes. Then I add a ten-stick. Now I have 30 cubes total.

How many did I have at the beginning?

? + 10 = 30

There were __ cubes in the beginning. 

400

Emmanuel and Juliette each have 5 candies. Then they each gave their dad 2 candies. How many candies do they have left in all? 

5 - 2 = ?

5 - 2 = ?

3 + 3 = 6

Emmanuel and Juliette have 6 candies left in all. 

400

On Monday, Ms. Madrigal collects all the homework notebooks for class 102 but some kids are absent. When she counts the notebooks, she only has 22 notebooks.

How many kids are absent? 

25 - ? = 22

There are 3 kids absent. 

500

Ms. Madrigal has 6 dollars and then Raffi gave her 20 dollars. How many dollars does she have now? 

20 + 6 = 26. 

Ms. Madrigal has 26 dollars. 

500

At the library, Aidan borrowed Ugly Fish, A Pet for Petunia, How to Babysit a Grandpa, Roberto Clemente, Ruby the Copycat, and a few other books. He left with 9 books total. 

How many other books did he borrow?

5 + ? = 9

Aidan took ___ extra books. 

500

I have 20 flowers in total. Some are roses and 5 rest are daffodils. How many are roses? 

? + 5 = 20

There are ___ roses. 

500

Mason has 10 Pokemon cards. He gives 5 to Alejandro and 2 to Joshua. How many Pokemon cars does he have left? 

10 - 5 - 2 = ?

Mason has 3 Pokemon cards left. 

500
On Monday Liam read 6 books and on Tuesday he read some more. He read 9 books total. 

On Monday Harrison read 7 books and on Tuesday he also read more. He also read 9 books, total. 

Who read more books on Tuesday?


9 - ? = 6 

9 - ? = 7

They both read the same number of books on Tuesday. 

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