Word Problems
Charlie and his father, an engineer, decided to build a treehouse in their backyard. In order to start constructing the house, Charlie and his father needed to gather some wood from the forest. If they initially have 15 extra planks of wood in the house and Charlie and his father got 10 planks of wood each, how many pieces of wood do they have in total?
15 + 10 + 10 = 35
There are 35 planks of wood.
30 minutes from 12:30pm is what?
1:00 pm
A quarter is worth ...
25 cents
Tobias is making a square blanket for his grandmother. The length of his blanket is 5 feet and the width of his blanket is 5 feet. What will the area of Tobias’s blanket be?
25 squared feet
What is the fractional unit for a shape that is cut into 6 equal pieces
Sixths
For her birthday this year, Farah received a new set of shoes. She now has a total of 33 pairs of shoes. If she gave away 14 pairs of shoes to her friends, how many pairs of shoes are left?
33 – 14 = 19
19 pairs of shoes were left to Farah.
If lunch starts at 11:00 am, and ends at 11:35 am. How long is the lunch period?
35 minutes
If Ms. C has 2 quarters, 3 nickels, and 4 pennies. How much change does she have altogether?
69 cents
Aubree is setting up a garden in her backyard. Her garden will be 6 feet wide and 3 feet long. Aubrey needs to calculate the area of her garden, so she can figure out how much soil to buy. What will the area of Aubree’s garden be?
18 squared feet
4/8
4 eighths
John is building a tree house to serve as his hideout. If he has 5 pieces of rope, each 6 feet long, and he ties them all together, how long will his rope be?
6 x 5 = 30
The rope will be 30 feet long
If recess ends at 1:30 pm, and the kids only get 15 minutes of recess. What time does recess start?
1:15 pm
What is the total of 3 quarters, 2 dimes and 1 nickel?
$1.00
Miguel glues a ribbon border around the edges of a picture frame. If the frame is 8 feet wide and 5 feet long, what is the perimeter of the ribbon border?
8 ft + 8 ft + 5 ft + 5 ft = 26 feet
26 feet
3 sixths is equivalent to ...
1/2
1 half
Lexie’s spent 2 hours gathering all of her watercolor paintings. She thought of placing an equal number of paintings in four of the rooms in the house. If Lexie has 32 watercolor paintings, how many paintings will be placed in each of the four rooms?
32 ÷ 4 = 8
There will be 8 paintings to be placed in each of the four rooms.
Jack usually wakes up at 7 o’clock in the morning. Yesterday, he got up 53 minutes later than usual. What time did Jack wake up?
7:53 am
Ms. Matza goes to the store with $100. Her total came to $45.50. How much change would she gets back.
$54.50
Manny fences in a rectangular playpen for his dog. If the length of the playpen is 35 inches wide and 45 inches long, what is the perimeter of the playpen?
35 in. + 35 in. + 45 in. + 45 in. = 160 inches
160 inches
Gilly and Luke went to the school library one fine morning. They planned to read books that day and borrow books to read during the winter. Of the 10 books on fairy tales, Gilly borrowed 3. What fraction of the books on fairy tales did she borrow?
3/ 10
3 tenths
Besides the piles of white paper was a stack of 700 sheets of used paper. Ms. Char wants to place it in boxes for recycling. If every box can contain 100 sheets, how many boxes does she need?
700 ÷ 100 = 7
She needs 7 boxes.
When he got home, Jack slept for 3 hours. How many minutes did he sleep?
3 x 60 = 180
Jack slept for 180 minutes.
If I had 3 twenty dollar bills, 2 ten dollar bills, 3 five dollar bills, 4 ones, 1 quarter, 3 dimes, and 15 pennies. How much money do I have in all?
$99.70
Jack’s dining room is 5 feet wide and 12 feet long. What is the area AND the perimeter of his dining room?
Area: 5 x 12 = 60 squared feet
Perimeter: 5 + 5 + 12 + 12 = 34 feet
Diego, Roy, and Travis spent one sunny Saturday in their tree house to play marbles, cards, and cars. Diego brought his bag of marbles and found that 4 of his 10 marbles are blue. Roy also brought his bag of marbles. Of his 8 marbles, 4 are also blue. Between Diego and Roy’s collection of marbles, which of the two has a greater fraction of blue marbles?
Diego : 4/10
Roy: 4/8
Roy has more blue marbles
4/8 is greater than 4/10