Place Value Chart
Ashley has 71 violet marbles, she gave Mike 43 of the marbles. How many marbles does Ashley have now?
Solve using a place value chart.
Ashley has 28 marbles now.
Dan had 86 quarters in his piggy bank. He found 34 more quarters in the couch. How many quarters does Dan have now?
Use a number line to solve.
Dan has 120 quarters.
Sara has 117 books. Mike has 130 books. How many books do they have altogether?
They have 247 books altogether.
Estimate using friendly numbers:
86 - 17 = c
Answers can vary.
c should be about 65.
Estimate by rounding to the nearest 10:
324 + 213 = a
a is about 530.
Jessica picked 54 oranges. Tom picked 63 oranges. They then sold 48 of the oranges at the farmer’s market. How many oranges do they have left?
Use a place value chart to solve.
They have 69 oranges left.
Mike found 820 seashells on the beach. He gave Tom 137 of the seashells. How many seashells does he have now?
Use a number line to solve.
Mike has 683 seashells now.
Janice has 567 beads to make necklaces. She used 342 to make presents for her friends. How many beads does she have left?
Use a expanded method to solve.
Janice has 225 beads left.
Estimate using friendly numbers:
236 + 484 = d
Answers can vary.
d should be about 710.
Estimate by rounding to the nearest 100:
837 - 450 = b
b is about 300.
Mike grew 137 pumpkins. He sold 112 at the farmer’s market. Keith then gave Mike 133 more pumpkins. How many pumpkins does Mike have now?
Use a place value chart to solve.
Mike now has 158 pumpkins.
Mr. Brown’s class was studying the life cycle of toads. Tom brought 248 tadpoles to class. Sara brought 103 to class. They put them all in an aquarium. After a few days 99 tadpoles changed into toads. How many tadpoles are still in the aquarium?
Use a number line to solve.
There are 252 tadpoles still in the aquarium.
There are 500 seats in a movie theater. There are 362 people sitting in the seats. How many seats are empty?
Use expanded method to solve.
There are 138 seats empty in the movie theater.
At the pet store this morning, there were 26 fish in an aquarium and 32 fish in the other aquarium. At noon, 11 fish sold. About how many fish are left in the aquariums?
Use friendly numbers to estimate.
Answers can vary.
The should be about 45 fish left in the aquariums.
Leia went to the orchard and picked 124 red apples. She also picked 345 green apples. Then, she sold 266 apples at the farmer’s market. About many apples does she have left?
Round to the nearest 10 to estimate.
Leia has 200 apples left over.
Adam and his family are going on vacation. They traveled a total of 873 miles. On Friday, they traveled 217 miles. On Saturday, they traveled 457 miles. They traveled the rest on Sunday. How many miles did they travel on Sunday?
Use a place value chart to solve.
Adam and his family traveled 199 miles on Sunday.
There are 110 cars in the movie theater parking lot. 45 more came before the movie started. How many cars are in the parking lot?
Use a number line to solve.
There are 155 cars in the parking lot.
There are 104 oak trees in the park. Park workers will plant 132 more trees on Friday and 124 more on Saturday. How many oak trees will be in the park after the workers plant the trees?
Use expanded method to solve.
There will be 360 oak trees in the park.
There were 823 people attending a baseball game after 37 people had already left. About how many people were at the game before the people left?
Use friendly numbers to estimate.
Answers can vary.
There should have been about 860 people at the game before some left.
Mr. Davis’ class was raising butterflies. On Monday 12 butterflies emerged from their chrysalises. Then on Tuesday some more hatched. They now have 32 butterflies flying in the butterfly house. About how many butterflies hatched on Tuesday?
Use friendly numbers to estimate.
About 20 butterflies hatched on Tuesday.
Dani has some dog bones to sell at her pet store. On Monday she sold 104 bones. On Tuesday she sold 87 bones. On Wednesday she had 125 more bones delivered. Now she has 250 bones. How many bones did she have at the beginning?
Use a place value chart to solve.
She had 441 bones at the beginning of the story problem.
A school collects canned food for charity.
Third graders collected 327 cans.
Third graders collected 138 more cans than fourth graders.
How many cans did the third and fourth graders collect altogether.
Use a number line to solve.
Altogether they collected 516 cans for charity.
There were 124 people at the start of the football game. 104 more people came to watch the game at half-time. 86 left before the end of the game. How many people were watching the end of the game?
Use expanded method to solve.
There were 142 people watching the end of the game.
Sally has 841 Pokemon cards. Tim gave Sally 178 more Pokemon cards. About many Pokemon cards does Sally have now?
Use friendly numbers to estimate.
Answers can vary.
Sally could have about 1,020 Pokemon cards.
Jacquelyn's mom drove 265 miles on Thursday and 478 miles on Friday. She has 143 more to drive on Saturday. About how many miles will she drive in all?
Round to the nearest 100 to estimate.
She will have driven about 900 miles.