CUBES
Name that Word Problem
Key Phrases
Solve
Mixed and Improper
100

C in CUBES stands for 

What is Circle the numbers

100

A word problem that has the phrases "each" "in all" "factor" is what type of word problem is it?

What is multiplication
100

Mary had 4 pennies in her bank. Her dad gave her 5 more pennies. How many pennies does Mary have now?

What is HOW MANY, addition

100

Benny picked 37 apples from the orchard and gave 11 apples to Keith. How many apples does Benny have now?

What is 26 apples

100

1 1/3

What is 4/3

200

U in CUBES stands for

What is Underline the question

200
A word problem that has the phrase "reduced" "greater than" "remain" is what type of word problem?

What is subtraction

200

An architect was building a hotel downtown. He bough 738 lamps to put in the rooms. If each room gets 9 lamps, how many rooms does the hotel have?

What is EACH, division

200

Keith has 782 orange balloons. Sally has 276 orange balloons. How many orange balloons do they have in total?

What is 1058 orange balloons

200

65/3

What is 21 2/3

300

B in CUBES stands for 

What is Box in important words
300

A word problem that has the phrase "sum" "combine" "increase" is what type of word problem?

What is addition

300

An athletics track is 400m long. If I ran 9 times around the track, how far would that be?

What is TIMES, multiplication

300

Rachel had 42 shelves of DVDs. If each shelf had 68 movies on it, how many movies did she have total?

What is 2,856 DVDs

300

6 3/5

What is 33/5

400

S in CUBES stands for

What is Solve

400

A word problem that has the phrase "half" "split" "distribute" is what type of word problem?

What is division

400

There are 67 bird families living near the mountain. If 32 bird families flew away for winter, how many bird families were left near the mountain?

What is LEFT, subtraction

400

Oliver was reading through his favorite book. The book had 366 pages and it took Oliver 3 days to finish the book. How many pages did he read per day?

What is 122 pages

400

123/6

What is 20 1/2

500

E in CUBES stands for 

What is Evaluate

500

What is type of math is a fraction?

What is division

500

Timmy and Jimmy each had 23 pokemon cards. They bought 5 packs that each had 25 cards. If they shared the cards they bought equally, how many cards should Timmy and Jimmy each have after they've separated them?

What is addition, multiplication, and division

500

John and Martin are training for a race. Together they have run an equal amount for a total of 24 miles. If John runs 4 miles each day for 5 days and Martin runs 6 miles each day for 4 days, how many miles will John and Martin run each? Did John or Martin run more? How much more? What was their total amount ran together?

What is John ran 32 miles and Martin ran 36 miles. Martin ran 4 more miles than John. Their total distance was 68 miles.

500

45 12/23

What is 1047/23

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