Two-Step Word Problems
Time
Picture Graphs
Bar Graphs
Miscellaneous
200
Recess was 15 minutes. Scott spent 7 minutes playing basketball and 4 minutes eating his snack. How much time did he have left?
What is 4 minutes?
200
Look at the clock.
What time is shown on the clock?
What is 8:47?
200
Marissa picked some flowers in her garden. She made a scaled picture graph to show the number of flowers of each color that she picked.
Which sentence about the flowers that Marissa picked is true?
What is 6 yellow flowers?
200
Third grade students made a graph of the type of pet they have at home. Use the graph below to answer the question.
How many fewer students have fish than dogs?
What is 10 students?
200
Boris looked at the clock in his classroom.
What time was it when Boris looked at the clock?
What is 2:38?
400
Katie spent $26 on a gift for her mother and $22 on a gift for her father. If she had $80 to start with, how much money does she have left after buying the gifts for her parents?
What is $32?
400
Using an analog clock, show the time 3:14.
Students will show the correct time on a given clock.
400
Four students from Mr. Howard's gym class competed to see who could run the most laps around the gym. Use the picture graph below to answer the question.
How many more laps did Paige run than Kayla?
What is 6 laps?
400
This chart represents the types of pets owned by the students in Mr. Howard's 4th grade class. How many total pets does the class own?
What is 18 pets?
400
Daniel needs 20 minutes to walk to school, 15 minutes for breakfast and ten minutes to get dressed. If he needs to be at school at 8:00 what time is the latest he could wake up?
What is 7:25?
600
The school gym teacher ordered 5 boxes of bean bags for a team game. Each box comes with 8 bean bags. There will be 4 teams in the game, each getting an equal number of bean bags.
How many bean bags will each team get?
What is 10 bean bags?
600
James is watching his favorite movie. The movie is 1 hour and 45 minutes long. If he starts watching the movie at 1:00, what time will the movie be over?
What is 2:45?
600
Third grade students made a graph of their favorite subject in school. Use the graph below to answer the question.
How many more students like reading than writing?
What is 3 students?
600
Eric surveyed the 27 students in his 4th grade class about their favorite flavor of ice cream and then made this bar graph.
How many students chose cookie dough or mint chip at their favorite?
What is 11 students?
600
Bodin has 85 baseball cards. He buys 2 packets of baseball cards. Each packet has 7 cards. How many total baseball cards does Bodin have?
What is 99 cards?
800
Fran had a package of 24 trading cards. She took 6 for herself and split the rest evenly between her two sisters. How many cards did each of Fran's sisters receive?
What is 9 cards?
800
Sally is waiting for the bus. It is 10:15 a.m. and the next bus comes at 10:42 a.m.
How long, in minutes, does Sally have to wait for the bus?
What is 27 minutes?
800
Students voted on their favorite school subject. Use the picture graph to answer the question.
How many more students voted for mathematics and science than social studies?
What is 20 more students?
800
Use the graph below to answer the question.
The combined rainfall in which two states is the same as the rainfall in Louisiana?
What are Utah and Virginia?
800
David needs to wear his baseball uniform to the game tonight, but the shirt is dirty. David needs to
- wash the shirt in the washing machine,
- dry the shirt for 1 hour in the dryer,
- walk to the game, which takes 15 minutes,
- get to the game by 6:30 p.m.
David figures out that the latest time he can put the shirt into the washing machine is 4:30 p.m. to make it to the game on time.
David assumed that the shirt would take how many minutes in the washing machine?
What is 45 minutes?
1000
Some friends are playing a card game. The set of cards has 8 different shapes. Each of the shapes comes in 3 different colors.
Each friend gets 6 cards, with no cards left over.
Write an equation that can be solved to find how many friends are playing the game (n).
What is 8 x 3 / n = 6 ?
1000
The Johnson family went to the aquarium. They arrived at 10:00 a.m. They explored the aquarium for 1 hour and 45 minutes, ate lunch for 45 minutes and the drive home took 30 minutes. What time did the Johnsons get home?
What is 1:00 pm?
1000
Create a picture graph with this data.
Jamal wants to make a picture graph about the number of players on different teams from this table.
Students will show the teacher the correct answer and should look something like this:
1000
Create a bar graph with the following data:
Marissa picked some flowers in her garden. She listed the number of flowers of each color that she picked.
Red: 12
Blue: 17
Yellow: 6
White: 14
Students will show the teacher their answer and it should look something like this:
1000
Create a picture graph from this bar graph.
Mr. Duncan took a survey to find what the students in his class like to do in their free time. The results are below.
The teacher will check to see which student drew an accurate picture graph first.