Addition/Take From
Put Together/Take Apart
Comparison Probems
Add to/Put together w/ 3 addends
Base 10 blocks
100

Lucy has 11 crayons and Julie has 17. Who has more craysons? How many more?

7 + 9 = 18

There are 18 in the box

100

On Table Three, there are 7 blue crayons and 6 red crayons. How many crayons are there altogether?

7 + 6 = ?

13 crayons are altogether

100

Lucy has 11 crayons and Julie has 17. Who has more crayons? How many more?

11 + ? = 17 or 17 - 11 = ?

Julie has more

6 more crayons

100

Sonya and Dan each have 5 pencils. Cora has 6 pencils. How many pencils do they have altogether?

5 + 5 + 6 = ?

16 pencils all together

100

35

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200

Mr. Lai has 17 erasers. He gave 11 to Ms. Siggins. How many erasers does Mr. Lai have now?

17 - 11 =?

Mr. Lai has 6 erasers

200

Ms. Mar has 20 markers. 10 are yellow and the rest are purple. How many are purple?

20 - 10 = ? or 10 + ? = 20

there are 10 purple markers

200

Lucas has 12 crayons and Lia has 15. Who has fewer crayons? How many fewer?

15 - 12 = ? or 15 - ? = 12

Lucas has fewer

3 fewer crayons

200

Peter had 2 crayons. Mike gave him 5 more. Then Lily gave him 6 more. How many crayons does Mike have now?

2 + 5 + 6 = ?

13 altogether


200

89

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300

Peter had 6 crayons. Mike gave Peter some more crayons. Then Peter had 13 crayons in all. How many crayons did Mike give Peter?

6 + ? = 13

13 - 6 = ?

Mike gave peter 7 crayons

300

There are 14 glue sticks in Room A. Some are on the table and 8 are on the shelf. How many are on the table?

? + 8 = 14   or    14 - 8 = ?

6 are on the table

300

Rosa has 6 markers. Diego has 5 more markers than Rosa. How many markers does Diego have?

6 + 5 = ?

11 markers

300

Sam had 6 blue pencils, 6 red pencils, and 6 green pencils. How many pencils does she have altogether?  

6 + 6 + 6 = ?

18 altogether


300

20 

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400

Ms. Torres bought 20 pencils for her class. One week later some pencils were missing. 14 pencils were left. How many pencils were missing?

20 - ? = 14

20 - 14 = ?

6 pencils were missing

400

There are 10 pencil boxes on the shelf. Some are green and some are pink. How many of each color could there be?

? + ? = 10  or 10 - ? = ?

you pick

400

There are 15 green pencil boxes. There are 3 fewer red pencil boxes. How many red pencil boxes are there?    

15 - 3 = ?

12 red pencils

400

Cami got 4 pencils from her teacher and 8 pencils from her mom. The principal gave her some more pencils. In the end, she had 14 pencils. How many pencils did the principal give her?

4 + 8 + ? = 14  

2 pencils 

400

63

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500

Cami had some pencils for school. Her mom gave her 10 more. Now she has 15 pencils. How many pencils did Cami start with?

? + 10 = 15

15 - 10 = ?

She started with 5

500

42 +  53 =

95

500

There are 9 more blue crayons than purple crayons. There are 16 blue crayons. How many purple crayons are there?

? + 9 = 16  or  16 - 9 = 

7  purple crayons

500

Rory had 8 crayons. Some were blue, some were red and some were green. How many of each crayon could he have?

? + ? + ? = 8

500

33 + 42

75

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