Positive Or Negative
Sue deposited $10
What is positive?
The sum of two numbers
What is addition?
Alyssa had 95 nickels in her bank. She spent 31 of her nickels. How many nickels does she have now ?
What is nickels? money? nickels in the bank?
Joan is 3 ft tall, whereas Benny is 4ft tall.
What is feet?
Melanie is baking a cake. The recipe calls for 8 cups of flour. She already put in 4 cups. How many more cups does she need to add ?
What is she needs to add 4 cups of flour?
It was 30 degrees below zero on monday.
What is negative?
A number decreased by a number
What is subtraction?
There are 42 dogwood trees currently in the park. Park workers will plant 45 more dogwood trees today. How many dogwood trees will the park have when the workers are finished ?
What is dogwood trees? Planting trees? trees left? trees in the park?
Melanie is baking a cake. The recipe calls for 8 cups of flour.
What are cups?
Sally has 7 five dollars bills. How much money does she have ?
What is she has $35?
We only moved forward 10 miles in the last hour.
What is positive?
A number three times
What is multiplication.
Tim has to walk 2 1/2 miles to get to the store. Mary has to travel 1 1/4 miles to also get to the store. How much further does Tim have to walk than Mary to get to the store?
What is miles to the store? Walking to the store? What is Tim and Mary walking?
There were 28 bales of hay in the barn. Fred stacked more bales in the barn today.
What are bales?
A restaurant sold 49 pies last week. How many pies on average were sold each day ?
What is 7 pies were sold each day?
John had a debt of $1550.00.
What is negative?
The product of two numbers
What is multiplication?
A recipe called for 2 9/10 cups of chopped tomatoes and 5 1/2 cups of diced lettuce. How many more cups of lettuce did the recipe call for?
What is a recipe? recipe for salad?
) Last week Tom had 33 dollars. He washed cars over the weekend and now has 58 dollars.
What are dollars?
There was 5/8 of a pie left in the fridge. Daniel ate 1/4 of the leftover pie. How much of a pie did he have?
What is Daniel had 5/32 of the pie?
The submarine was descending at a rate of 60 feet per minute.
What is negative?
Quotient
What is division?
Sally spends 1 1/10 hours studying and also spends 1 2/5 hours at the store. How much less time does Sally spend at the store compared to studying?
What is hours studying? time to study?
Sandy found 94 seashells on the beach, she gave Tom some of her seashells.
What are seashells?
According to a recipe, 9/20 oz. of sugar is needed to make 6 cookies. Ashley decided to use only a third of the sugar to make it healthier. How much sugar did Ashley use?
What is she used 3/20 oz. of sugar.