Problem Types
Autumn had 38 markers. Her best friend gave her 24 more. How many crayons does she have now?
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Miss Ferreira's class read 62 books. Mr. MacKenzie's class read 54 books. How many books did the second grade read all together?
116
Miss Glenn bought 84 pencils. She passed out 47 of them. How many pencils does she have left?
37
Mrs. Ecker wants to sell 100 tickets to the baseball game. On Monday she sold 20. How many more tickets will she need to sell if she wants to sell 100?
80
Max made 89 cupcakes. 62 had icing and the rest did not. How many cupcakes did not have icing?
27
Yesterday, Koenig's sold 120 sodas. Today it sold 94 sodas. How many fewer sodas did Koenig's sell today than yesterday?
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Britany has 89 summer reading books. Gwen has 75 summer reading books. How many summer reading books do they have all together?
164
Emily had 76 silly bands. She gave her friend some silly bands. Now she has 24 silly bands. How many silly bands did she give her friend?
52
Chelsea scored 30 points in a basketball game. Emma scored 10 fewer points than Chelsea. How many points did Emma score?
20
The second grade class had 114 candy bars. There were some with peanuts and 70 without nuts. How many candy bars had peanuts?
44
Dr. Prout has 105 blue and yellow fish in her fish tank. She has 87 yellow fish. How many blue fish does she have?
Part-Part-Whole
There are some birds in a tree. Then 13 more birds flew into the tree. Now there are 21 birds in the tree. Write a number sentence to show this problem.
__ + 13 = 21
or
21 -13 = __
Alexis had 53 cookies. She ate 20 of them. How many cookies does Alexis have left?
33
Mr. Farley's class needs 100 stars to have a pizza party. The class earned 32 stars in April. How many more stars will they need to earn their pizza party?
78
There were some people on a bus. 22 people were standing on the bus and the 45 were sitting down. How many people were on the bus?
Tom has 42 toy cars. He gave Matt some toy cars. Now Tom has 29 cars left. How many toy cars did Tom give Matt?
13
Ashley has 47 cookies. Her friend has 23 cookies. How many cookies do they have all together?
70
Sara has 82 magazines. She gave some to her sister. Now she has 45 magazines. How many magazines did she give to her sister?
37
Alicia has 19 markers. Mrs. Wright has 6 more markers than Alicia. Write a number sentence that shows how many markers Mrs. Wright has.
19 + 6 = __
Grove Elementary has 262 children. 120 are elementary students and the rest are middle schoolers. How many of the students are middle schoolers?
142
Tucker has 57 baseball cards. Brandon has 23 baseball cards. How many MORE baseball cards does Tucker have?
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George has some baseball cards. Frank gave him 89 more baseball cards. Now he has 115 cards. How many baseball cards did George have to start with?
204
There are 105 children on a bus. Some people got off the bus. Now there are 65 people on the bus. How many people got off the bus?
40
Shawn wants to sell 200 tickets to the concert. He sold 154. How many more tickets will he need to sell?
46
There are some cars in the garage. 45 are new and 82 are used. How many cars are in the garage?
127