Two Step Story Problems
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Two Step Story Problems
Two Step Story Problems
100

Mary had 26 apples. She used 8 to make applesauce. She used the rest to make pies. She put 6 apples in each pie. How many pies did Kate make?


WHAT IS THE LABEL?


Pies 

100

Of of 140 people at the park, 80 people were playing on the playground.  The others were playing in the field.  Then 10 more people start playing in the field.  How many people are playing in the field now? 

What is 70.

100

Matt has 30 baseball cards. Matt has 2 more cards than Tony. Tony displays his cards in 4 equal rows. How many are in each row?


WHAT IS THE LABEL?

What is baseball cards? 

100

Troy saves money for a bike that costs $126. He saves $58 one month and $43 the next month. How much more money does Troy need to buy the bike?

What is the LABEL?

What is dollars or $. 

200

Write an equation and solve:

Mary had 26 apples. She used 8 to make applesauce. She used the rest to make pies. She put 6 apples in each pie. How many pies did Kate make?

(26-8) / 6 = p

What is 3 pies? 

200

What are all shapes called that have 4 sides? 

What is a quadrilateral?

200

Write the equation and solve:

Matt has 30 baseball cards. Matt has 2 more cards than Tony. Tony displays his cards in 4 equal rows. How many are in each row?

(30-2) / 4 = c

What is 7 cards? 

200

Write the equation and solve:

Troy saves money for a bike that costs $126. He saves $58 one month and $43 the next month. How much more money does Troy need to buy the bike?

58 + 43 + m = 126

126 - (58 + 43) = m

What is $25. 

300

Write the equation and solve:

Max downloads 50 pictures on his computer. Then he removes 10 pictures. He puts the rest in 4 folders in his computer, with an equal number in each folder. 


How many pictures are in each folder?

(50-10) / 4 = p

What is 10 pictures. 

300

Sheyanne has 134 stamps. She has 67 fewer stamps than Liam.  How many stamps does Liam have? 

What is 201 stamps?

300

Write an equation and solve.

Ben buys a video game that costs $32. He also buys a movie that cost $10 more than the video game. 

 How much does Ben spend on the video game and the movie?


What is (32+10) + 32 = m

What is $74. 


300

Makenna has 452 rocks in his collection. Her mom gives her 38 more rocks. She then gives some rocks to her friend. Makenna now has 405 rocks. 

How many rocks does she give to her friend?

(452 + 38) - 405 = r

What is 9 rocks? 

400

Mrs. Wiersma is baking pies and cakes for a church. She bought 32 apples, 21 peaches, and a number of bananas at the farmer's market. She bought 74 pieces of fruit. How many bananas did she buy?

Choose the equation that can be used to solve the problem:

(32 + 21) + b = 74

(74-b)+32 = 21

(32 + 21) x b = 74 

What is (32 + 21) + b = 74.

400

Where does Mac, Ms. Clark's daughter, go to college? 

What is University of Wisconsin-Madison?

400

Make an equation and solve:

Afton puts 37 books on a shelf. She puts an equal number of books on 7 rows and puts 2 books on the last row. How many books does she put in each of the 7 equal rows?

Choose the equation that can be used:

(2xb) + 7 = 37

(7xb) + 2 = 37

(37 / 7) + 2 + b

What is (7xb) + 2 = 37.

What is 5 books? 

400

Write an equation and solve:

Landon picks 150 grapes. He picks 60 red grapes and the rest are green. He sells 40 green grapes. How many green grapes does he have now?


(150-60) - 40 = g

What is 50 green grapes. 

500

During one week Claire rides her40 + bicycle 37 miles and Tatum rides 8 miles less than Claire.  How many miles do they ride altogether that week? 

Answer: 66 miles

Is the answer reasonable? 

)Yes, because,  40+ (40-10)= 70

500

What is the smallest angle called? 

What is an acute angle? 

500

Maddie cut a piece of string into 2 pieces.  One piece has a length of 13 inches. The other piece is 9 inches shorter.  How long is the string that Maddie cut? 

13 + (13-9)=s, s= 17 inches

500

What should you do when an equation says reasonable and explain?

What is rounding your equation and get your answer and compare it to the answer they gave you.  Explain how you know if the answer is reasonable or not by telling if your rounding answer was close to the answer they gave you if your answer was within 10 or 100.  

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