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100

Find the Sum

  4,329

+   765

________

What is 5,004?

100

How can you decompose both addends to add 6,411 + 1,281?

What is 6,00 + 400 +10 + 1 + 1,000 + 200 + 80 + 1? 

100

Find the difference

  2,461

-    397

_______

What is 2,064? 

100

Round to the nearest hundred

3,267 + 561

What is 3,300 and 600? 

100

An art teacher had 140 jars of paint. In the first half of the year, her students used 95 jars of paint. The teacher bought 35 more jars of paint. At the end of the year she had 15 unused jars of paint. How many jars of paint did her students use in the second half of the year?

What is 65 jars? 

200

Find the Sum

    9,087

+  7,668

__________

What is 16,755?

200

How will you decompose both addends to solve? 

84,341 - 73,202

What is 80,000 + 4,000 + 300 + 40 + 1 and 70,000 + 3,000 + 200 + 2

200

Find the difference 

 8,722

-7,095

______

What is 1,627?

200

Round using front-end estimation

4,986 + 5,703 

What is 4,000 + 5,000 ?

200

A food bank collected 3,887 food items in one month. The next month they collected 997 more food items. The following month they collected 572 fewer items than the first month. How many food items where collected over the three months?

What is 12,086 food items?

300

Find the Sum

   37,391

+ 85,642

_________

What is 123,033?

300

How will you decompose the second addend to subtract? 

48,293 - 23,113

What is 20,000 + 3,000 + 100 + 10 + 3? 

300

Find the difference

  31, 701

- 19, 568

_________

What is 12, 133? 

300

Round to the nearest thousand

5,678 + 9,145

What is 6,000 + 9,000? 

300

A company printed flyers to advertise their upcoming sale. The flyers were printed in 3 batches. the first batches had 7,355 flyers. The second batch had 1,690 fewer flyers than the first batch. The third batch had 895 fewer than the second batch. How many flyers did they print in all?

What is 17,790 flyers?

400

A car manufacturer has made 4,569 cars so far this month. They will make 5,268 more cars this month. How many cars will they make this month? Use an algorithm to solve. 

What is 9,855 cars?

400

How will you decompose the second addend to solve? 


356,891 - 115,240

What is 100,000 + 10,000 + 5,000 + 200 + 40? 

400

Florence has 7,615 black and white photos and 3,978 color photos. How many more black and white photos does she have?

What is 3,637 more black and white photos? 

400

Anton wrote the equation below. Is the difference reasonable? Explain:

1,988- 713 = 215

What is the difference is not reasonable 

2,000- 700 = 1,300 Anton's difference of 275 is not close to 1,300. 

400

The Valentine Hotel is preparing its pools for the summer. Pool A holds 11,842 gallons of water. Pool B holds 17,963 gallons of water. The hotel currently has 25,672 gallons of treated water ready to fill the pools. How much more water will they need to fill both pools? 

What is 4,133 more gallons of water to fill both pools?

500

Lakeside High School East has 4,703 students. Lakeside High School West has 3,559 students. How many students do both schools have altogether? 

What is 8,262 students?
500

How will you decompose both addends to solve? 


567,824 - 123, 678

What is 500,000 + 60,000 + 7,000 + 800 + 20 +4 and 100,000 + 20,000 + 3,000 + 600 + 70 + 8? 

500

A company bought a delivery truck for $35,698. A year later the company bought a second delivery truck for $39,105. How much more did they spend on the second truck?

What is $3,407 more

500
Springfield School District had 1,578 students last year. This year it has 2,138 students. Carmen says  that the number of students increased by over 500 students. Is her statement reasonable?

What is rounding to the nearest hundred gives an estimated difference of 2,100-1,600 = 500 Carmen's statement is reasonable

500

Kayla and her family are taking a four-day train trip across the country. They will be traveling a total of 2,787 miles. On the first and second day they traveled 825 miles total. On the third day they traveled 1,043 miles. How many miles left do they have to travel on the fourth day?

What is 919 miles?

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