Math Story Problems

Purple

100

I had 6 pens. I bought 4 more pens. How many pens do I have now?

10 pens

200

There was 3 ducks swimming in the pond. 6 more ducks come. How many ducks are swimming in the pond?

9 ducks

300

There are 19 students in Ms. Nelson's class. There are 20 students in Ms.Baker's class. How many students are in both classes?

39 students

400

There are 17 people eating lunch. Then 19 more people come to lunch. How many people are eating lunch?

36 students

500

Ms. Baker has 20 students. Ms. Barnett has 20 students. Mrs. Schneider has 19 students. Ms. Nelson has 19 students. Mrs. Tassey has 20 students. How many first graders are at Kooser?

98 students. 

Green

100

Tom had 7 cookies. He ate 5 of them. How many cookies are left?

2 cookies

200

There were 18 deer in the field. 13 deer go to the pond. How many deer are still in the field? 

5 deer.

300

I made 57 sandwiches for the party. The guests ate 24 of them. How many sandwiches are left?

33 sandwiches

400

There were 43 people in the water swimming. 17 got out to dry off. How many people are in the water swimming still?

26 people are swimming

500

I bought a pack of 100 pencils for school. There are 20 students in my class. I gave each student a pencil. Then I gave 12 more pencils out for stations. How many pencils do I have left? 

68 pencils

Red

100

I have 9 crayons. There are 3 blue. The rest are purple. How many purple crayons do I have? 

6 purple crayons

200

16 horses were at the stable. Some horses left. There are 4 horses left at the stable. How many horses left the stable?

12 horses left the stable

300

There were 30 movies at the store. There were comedy movies. There was also 9 pet movies. How many comedy movies were there? 

21 comedy movies

400

I had 35 colored pencils. 12 were red. 7 were blue. The rest were green. How many colored pencils were green?

16 green colored pencils

500

I made 80 cookies for the bake sale. 20 of those cookies were chocolate chip. 15 of them were oatmeal. 8 were M & M. The rest were sugar cookies. How many sugar cookies did I make? 

37 sugar cookies

Yellow

100

How much is a dime worth?

10 cents

200

How much is a quarter worth?

25 cents

300

How much money do I have if I have 2 quarters, and 7 pennies?

57 cents

400

How much money would I have if I had 100 pennies, 4 quarters, and 7 dimes?

$2.70 

500

How much money do I have if I have 5 quarters, 3 dimes, 8 nickels, and 76 pennies?

$2.71