Addition
Subtraction
Subtract Across Zeros
Estimate Sums and Differences
Key Words
100

What is 3,567 + 2,341 =? 

5,908

100

What is 394 - 75=?

319

100

What is 1,902 - 1,374?

528

100

Estimate the difference by rounding to the nearest ten thousand 

 651,354 - 417,823=?

650,000 - 420,000 = 230,000

100

What operation is used: "in all"

What is addition?

200

What is 32,602 + 53,129 =?

85,731

200

What is 5,296 - 4,521=?

775

200

What is 80,600 - 16,434=?

64,166

200

Estimate the sum by rounding to the nearest thousand 45,671 + 7,142

46,000 + 7,000 = 53,000

200

What operation is used : "How many more..."

What is subtraction?

300

What is 19,634+13,768+7,926=?

41,328

300

A crayon company makes 36,742 red crayons, 12,345 yellow crayons, and 6,921 brown crayons. How many more red crayons are made than yellow and brown combined? (Hint: you must use two operations)

17,467

300

What is 800,740 - 201,568=?

599,172

300

Estimate the difference by rounding to the nearest ten thousand 1,000,000 - 348,546=?

1,000,000 - 350,000= 650,000

300

What is your key word?:

Sammy has 333 lollipops. Trish has 33 fewer lollipops than Sammy. How many lollipops does Trish have?

What is fewer?

400

Jake had 3,456 Pokemon cards and 15,324 baseball cards. How many cards does Jake have altogether? 

18,780

400

The Cycling Club's goal is to ride 8,213 miles by the end of four months. How many more miles do they need to ride in July to meet their goal? 

2,796

400

A gym hold a fundraiser over four weekends in which a team runs laps for donations. The gym's goal is 50,000 laps. Over three weekends the teams ran 9,328 laps, 14,054 laps, and 7,492 laps. How many laps do they need to run the fourth weekend to reach their goal? 

19,216

400

About how much greater is the area of the largest sea than the area of the smallest sea? Estimate the difference by rounding to the nearest thousand. 

The largest sea is Caprian Sea and that rounds to 168,000 and the smallest sea is the Boravian Sea which rounds to 14,000 so the estimated difference is 154,000. 

400

What is the key word in this word problem:

Jay has 16 burgers. Princeton has 14 burgers. How many burgers do Jay and Princeton have in all?

What is "in all."

500

     68G1

   +3463 

    10434

Find what number is represented by G

What is 7

500

Denise wrote the subtraction below. What mistake did Denise make? What is the correct answer? 

Denise did not regroup correctly in the thousands digit, the answer is 237,932

500

Mary subtracted 502,600 from 164,317. Is Mary's answer correct If not, explain why and what is the correct answer? 

Mary's answer is not correct, she did not regroup correctly in the hundred thousands place. The correct answer is 338,283. 

500

The fourth graders sang on a 2-day telethon for the local children's hospital. The hospital hoped to raise 760,000. On day one, they raised $398,139. On day two they raised $367,173. Did they reach their goal? About how much more or less did they raise. Estimate by rounding to the nearest ten thousand. 

Yes they did meet their goal because they raised $771,312. They raised about 10,000 more than their goal because $771,312 rounds to $770,000 and their goal was $760,000. 

500

What operation is used:

Jason has 9 pencils. He gives away 2 pencils. How many pencils does Jason have left?

What is subtraction

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