MTP 5 Word Problems

Practice?

100

Elena has 15 cupcakes. Evelyn eats 6 of them. How many cupcakes does Elena have left? Write an equation and show your work

15 - 6 = 9 cupcakes left

200

Jahmel feels bad that Elena only has 9 cupcakes left so he makes some more. Now she has 21 cupcakes. How many cupcakes did Jahmel make for Elena? Write an equation and show your work

21 - 9 = 12 cupcakes OR 9 + 12 = 21

300

Ciara loved Elena's cupcakes! Ciara taught herself to make some on her own. She made 24 practice cupcakes and 12 cupcakes for her class. How many cupcakes did Ciara make altogether? Write an equation and show your work

24 + 12 = 36 cupcakes

400

Ciara brought her 12 cupcakes to class. She forgot that there were 18 students in the class! How many students did not get to eat cupcakes? Write an equation and show your work

18 - 12 = 6 students OR 12 + 6 = 18

500

Ciara was sad that her friends Ashli and Kasandra did not get to eat cupcakes so she made 30 more cupcakes to be sure everyone would get one. All 18 students got to eat a cupcake the next day! How many cupcakes were left over? Were there enough cupcakes for everyone to eat 2? Write an equation and show your work

30 - 18 = 12 cupcakes. No, there were not enough left over to let everyone have 2. 12 - 18 = less than 0

One-Step

100

Jayden had a box of 46 craft sticks. He used 28 craft sticks to make a sailboat. How many craft sticks were not used? Write an equation and show your work

46 - 28 = 18 craft sticks

200

Rob's class made 31 clay bowls. Sarah's class made 15 clay bowls. How many more clay bowls did Rob's class make than Sarah's class? Write an equation and show your work

31 - 15 = 16 more clay bowls

300

Jane and her mom made 33 puppets for the craft fair. They sold 14 puppets. How many puppets do they still have? Write an equation and show your work

33 - 14 = 19 puppets

400

There were 39 pumpkins at the store. Then 17 of the pumpkins were sold. How many pumpkins are still at the store? Write an equation and show your work

39 - 17 = 22 pumpkins

500

Megan picked 34 flowers. Some of the flowers are yellow and 18 flowers are pink. How many of the flowers are yellow? Write an equation and show your work

34 - 18 = 16 yellow flowers

Two-Step

100

Eve has 3 striped banners and 3 dotted banners. Then she makes 7 white banners. How many banners does Eve have now? Write the 2 equations that helped you solve the problem

3+3 = 6 ...... 6+7 = 13 banners

200

Suki has 17 grapes. She gives 8 grapes to her sister. Then she gives 3 grapes to her friend. How many grapes does Suki have now? Write the 2 equations that helped you solve the problem

17 - 8 = 9...... 9 - 3 = 6 grapes

300

There are 8 students at a lunch table. Then 6 more students sit down. After that, 5 students leave. How many are at the table now? Write the 2 equations that helped you solve the problem

8 + 6 = 14 ....... 14 - 5 = 9 students

400

There were 16 quarters in a jar. John took 6 quarters. The Mom added more quarters to the jar. Now there are 18 quarters in the jar. How many did Mom put in? Write the 2 equations that helped you solve the problem

16 - 6 = 9 ....... 9 + _____ = 18, so 18 - 9 = 9 quarters Mom put in the jar

500

Emma has 12 cards and Stan has 0. Stan takes some of Emma's cards. Then Emma has 9 cards. How many more cards does Emma have than Stan? Write the 2 equations that helped you solve the problem

12 - ____ = 9, so Stan took 3 cards. Stan has 3 and Emma has 9 now: 9 - 3 = 6, so Emma has 6 more cards than Stan.