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An addition problem is modeled below.

What number sentence correctly represents the addition problem modeled?
What is 110 + 132 = 242
There are two lions at a zoo. The weight of the younger lion is 379 pounds. The weight of the older lion is 541 pounds.What is the difference in pounds between these two weights?
What is 162 pounds?
300 - 167 =
What is 133?
Mrs. Jensen bought 8 small pizzas for her son’s birthday party. Each pizza had 4 slices.
What equation shows the number of slices of pizza Mrs. Jensen bought?
What is 8 x 4 = 32
Jennifer bought 6 packages of ice cream for a birthday party. Each package contained 7 ice cream cups. How many ice cream cups did Jennifer buy?
What is 42 ice cream cups?
Terence wants to buy a new game controller that costs $85. He has saved $36, as shown in the model below.

Which equation can be used to find how much money Terrence needs inorder to buy the game controller?
What is $85 - $36 = ___
Brian needed small prizes for his booth at the school carnival.
How many prizes did Brian buy for his booth?
What is 880 prizes?
78+97+153+645+35,617+ 254=
What is 36,844?
Beatrice baked 72 cupcakes for a bake sale. She placed the cupcakes in small boxes. She put 4 cupcakes in each box. What model and equation represents the number of boxes Beatrice used for her cupcakes? 
What is
Gerardo bought 3 packages of mint gum and 2 packages of bubble gum. Each package had 8 pieces of gum.
How many pieces of gum did Gerardo buy?
What is 40 pieces of gum?
Rita had two boxes of ribbons.
• She had 37 large ribbons in the first box.
• She had 56 small ribbons in the second box.
• She gave 28 of the large ribbons to her sister.
Which number sentence can be used to find the number of ribbons Rita had left in the two boxes?
What is 37 - 28 + 56= _____?
Julio’s dad had $945 in his bank account.
How much money does Julio’s dad have left in his bank account?
What is $589 left in his bank account?
72 ÷ ___ = 8
What is 9?
The roller coaster at an amusement park has 5 cars. Each car can hold 3 people. Which strip diagram and equation represents the total number of people that can ride the roller coaster at the same time?
What is

Mr. Newell bought 3 fish for the fish tank in his classroom. The cost of each fish was $7. He paid for the fish with a $20 bill and a $10 bill.
How much change did Mr. Newell receive when he paid for the fish?
What is Mr. Newell received $9 in change?
A cafeteria sold a total of drinks on Wednesday. The table shows the number of each type of drink that was sold. The number of bottles of milk is missing from the table.

Which equations can be used to find the number of bottles of milk sold?
What is 263+172= 435
and 513-435= ____?
A movie theater has 710 seats.
How many seats are green?
What is 186 green seats?
42 ÷ ____ = 7
What is 6?
A garden currently contains 4 rows of 7 pumpkins. On Saturday, the gardener planted twice as many pumpkins. What is the number sentence can be used to find the number of pumpkins in the garden after the gardener planted twice as many?
What is 4 x 7 x 2 = ___
Leeland is taking 3 bags of apples to a picnic. Each bag has 8 apples. He has decided to divide the apples evenly into 4 bowls at the picnic.
How many apples will he put into each bowl?
What is 6 apples in each bowl?
Freddie had $256 in his bank account.
• On Monday he put $50 more into his account.
• On Tuesday he took out $87 to buy a bicycle.
Which equation can be used to find the amount of money Freddie had in his bank account after he took out money on Tuesday?
What is 256 + 50 - 87 ?
The table shows the costs of some items James is thinking about buying to decorate his home.
James will only be able to purchase three of the items today. What is the total cost of the three lowest priced items?
What is $246?
76 x 7 = _____
George has 48 plastic eggs to put into 6 baskets. He wants to put the samenumber of plastic eggs in each basket.
Which strip diagram shows how to find the number of plastic eggs George should put in each basket?

What is B?
Casey is sorting the 48 books in his library. He sorted an equal number of books into each of 6 boxes. He has already filled 3 boxes.
How many books does he have left to sort?
What is he has 24 books left to sort?