Sports and School
A teacher had 7 worksheets to grade. If she graded 2 but then had another 46 that were turned in, how many worksheets would she have to grade?
1. Subtract 7-2=5
2. Add 5+46=51
Beth is very superstitious, so she tries to avoid black cats on Halloween. Unfortunately, there are 1,794 black cats in her city. There are also 1,484 brown cats and 1,701 grey cats. How many more brown and grey cats are there than black cats?
1. Add 1484+1701=3185
2. Subtract 3185-1794=1391
Knowledge had a box of 64 crayons. He lost 8 of them and his brother broke 3. How many crayons does Knowledge have left?
1. Subtract 64 - 8 = 56
2. Subtract 56 - 3 = 53
For a potluck lunch Vanessa brought 9 bottles of soda. If someone else had already brought 3 sodas, how many were there total?
Add 9+3=12
A pet store has nine bird cages. If each cage has two parrots and two parakeets in it, how many birds does the pet store have total?
1. Add 2+2=4
2. Multiply 4x9=36
Ashton had two boxes of pencils with fourteen pencils in each box. How many pencils did Ashton have?
Multiply
2 x 14 = 28
Martha has 21 candies that she wants to make into goodie bags of 3. She wants to give those to 5 of her friends. How many goodie bags will she have left over?
1. Divide 21/3=7 in each goodie bag
2. Subtract 7-5=2 left over goodie bags
Daniela and Sujey have 20 minutes to walk to school together. It takes them 6 minutes to get to the corner where the library is. It takes them another 7 minutes to get to the fire station. How much longer do they have to get to school without being late?
1. Add 6+7=13
2. Subtract 20-13=7
OR
1. Subtract 20-6=14
2. Subtract 14-7=7
Cody bought seven boxes of chocolate candy and three boxes of caramel candy. If each box has eight pieces inside, how much candy did he have total?
1. Add 7+3=10
2. Multiply 8x10=80
Ned had 15 video games but 6 of them weren’t working. If he wanted to sell the working games for $7 each, how much money could he earn?
1. Subtract 15-6=9
2. Multiply 9x7=63
Sam had to wash forty short sleeve shirts and twenty-three long sleeve shirts before school. If he had only washed twenty-nine of them by the time school started, how many did he not wash?
1. Add 40 + 23 = 63
2. Subtract 63 - 29 = 34
Mr. Sherwood didn't like to give candy to trick-or-treaters. Instead, he bought 80 ghost stickers and 140 mummy stickers to give to the kids. He was surprised that only 10 children showed up at his house! If he gave each child an equal amount of stickers, how many stickers would each child receive?
1. Add 80+140=220
2. Divide 220/10=22 stickers each
Lyla runs two miles on Monday and 3 times that many on Tuesday. If she wants to run a total of 20 miles this week, how many more miles does she need to run?
1. Multiply 2x3=6 (Tuesday)
2. Add 2+6=8 (Total)
3. Subtract 20-8=12
For the school bake sale Katie made pastries. She baked seven cupcakes and five cookies. After the sale, she had eight to take back home. How many did she sell?
1. Add 7+5=12
2. Subtract 12-8=4
While on vacation, Gwen took forty-one pictures at the zoo and twenty-nine at the museum. If she later deleted fifteen of the pictures, how many pictures from her vacation did she still have?
1. Add 41+29=70
2. Subtract 70-15=55
In fourth grade there were 33 students at the start of the year. During the year, 18 students left and 14 new students came to school. How many students were in the fourth grade at the end?
1. Subtract 33 - 18 = 15
2. Add 15 + 14 = 29
The Uptown Movie Theater is showing a scary movie outdoors on Halloween night. The manager set up 11 rows of folding chairs in the parking lot. He put 8 chairs in each row. When he heard how well the tickets were selling, he set up 5 more rows with 9 chairs each. How many people can sit in the chairs during the movie?
1. Multiply 11x8=88
2. Multiply 5x9=45
3. Add 88+45=133
Alejandra earned $12 on Saturday but she only managed to earn half that amount on Sunday. She earned $26 the weekend before. How much more does she need to earn to give her the $60 she wants for a new pair of shoes?
1. Divide 12/2=6 (Sunday)
2. Add 6(sunday)+12(saturday) = 18
3. Subtract 60-18=42
At Billy’s Restaurant a group with two adults and five children came in to eat. If each meal cost three dollars, how much was the bill?
1. Add 2+5=7
2. Multiply 7x3=21
John was trying to expand his game collection. He bought twenty-one games from a friend and bought eight more at a garage sale. If twenty-three of the games didn’t work, how many good games did he end up with?
1. Add 21+8=29
2. Subtract 29-23 = 6
Aida swims 7 laps in a pool. Kaya swims 28 laps. How many times the number of laps Aida swims does Kaya swim?
Divide 28 by 7
28/7 = 4 laps
Logan and Laura want to roast pumpkin seeds when they carve their pumpkins. Logan has 6 large pumpkins, each has 73 seeds. Laura has 5 small pumpkins, each has 68 seeds. How many more pumpkin seeds does Logan have?
1. Multiply 63x6=378 seeds (Logan)
2. Multiply 68x5=340 seeds (Laura)
3. Subtract 378-340=38
Logan has 38 more seeds than Laura
Melissa has 21 cookies that she wants to make into boxes of 3. How much cookies are in each box?
1. Divide 21/3=7
Mike invited 13 friends to a birthday party, but 7 couldn’t come. If he wanted to buy enough cupcakes so each person could have exactly 4, how many should he buy?
1. Subtract 13-7=6
2. Multiply 6x4=24
Rachel was unboxing some of her old winter clothes. She found seven boxes of clothing and inside each box there were three scarves and four mittens. How many pieces of winter clothing did Rachel have total?
1. Add 3+4=7 winter clothing in each box
2. Multiply 7 x 7 = 49 winter clothing total