How Many More?
Sara has 62 crackers. Mary has 27 crackers. How many more crackers does Sara have than Mary?
35 more crackers
There are 379 students in school. 261 have a bike.
How many students don't have bikes?
118 students
My Uncle George loves apples. On Friday he picked 43 apples. On Saturday he picked 31 apples. On Sunday he picked 25 apples.
How many apples did he pick in all?
99 apples
Stan, Dan, and Fran saw a spider catch a fly in its web.
If the spider ate 4 flies every day, how many flies would it eat in a week?
28 flies
Sean has $2.05 but needs $4.00 to buy a toy. How much more money does Sean need?
$1.95
Raccoons fish for crayfish in the creek by Otto's farm. Otto likes to hide and watch the raccoons. One night the raccoons caught 36 crayfish. The next night they caught 23 crayfish.
How many more did they catch on the first night?
13 more crayfish
What is the difference between 2,812 and 1,356?
1,456
Last week 1,567 people shopped at a mall. This week 1,809 people shopped. How many people shopped at the mall over the last two weeks?
3,376 people
On Monday, 192 people watched the school play.
On Tuesday, 312 people watched it, and on Wednesday, 305 people came.
Did more than 800 people watch the play in all?
Yes, 809 people watched the play.
Anne had 65 cents.
She found 25 cents on the sidewalk.
She bought a bag of chips for 55 cents.
How much money did Anne have then?
35 cents
Cole and Bryson went to Video Game Land. Cole won 152 tickets. Bryson won 84 tickets. They want to put their tickets together to get a large toy monkey that costs 300 tickets. How many more tickets do they need?
64 more tickets
The Garden Club has $1,200. to spend on plants. They spend $311.00 on daisies and $264.00 on violets. How much money do they have left?
They have $625.00 left.
McKenna has 34 stuffed animals. Kenley has twice as many as McKenna. How many stuffed animals do the two girls have altogether?
102 stuffed animals
Haruto has tomato plants in his backyard. This year the plants grew 127 tomatoes. Birds had eaten 19 of the tomatoes. 23 tomatoes had been ruined by bugs. He picked the rest. How many tomatoes did Haruto pick?
85 tomatoes
A package of pens costs $3.45. If Mac pays for them with a $5 bill, how much change will he get?
$1.55
Carlton and Will went fishing together. Carlton caught 21 bass and 7 walleye. Will caught 13 bass and 8 walleye. How many more fish did Carlton catch than Will?
7 more fish
Mount Everest has an elevation of 29,035 feet. A climber started at Base Camp and hiked 2,300 feet. How much farther does the climber have before reaching the top of the mountain?
26,935 feet
Clementine and Jake make cookies for the school bake sale. Clementine baked 72 cookies. Jake baked twice as many as Clementine. How many cookies did they bake combined?
216 cookies
Webster Elementary School has 124 first graders and 130 second graders. On Friday, 12 first graders and 9 second graders were absent. How many first and second graders were in school on Friday?
233 first and second graders were in school on Friday.
Apples cost 60 cents per pound. How much will 4 pounds cost?
$2.40
China has 3,728 miles of high-speed train tracks. Japan has 1,539 miles of high-speed train tracks. How many more miles of high-speed train tracks does China have?
2,189 more miles of high-speed train tracks
To earn money for a trip, band members had to sell 1,590 boxes of popcorn. So far Jim has sold 350 boxes and Paul has sold 429 boxes. How many more boxes do they have to sell?
811 more boxes
Jimmy and Kelly ran a snack stand in their front yard. They sold cookies for 5¢, apples for 6¢ and cupcakes for 10¢. They sold 3 cookies, 2 cupcakes, and 1 apple. How much money did they make altogether?
41 cents
Dr. Banks had 330 toothbrushes to give away to his patients. He gave away 53 toothbrushes in January. He gave away 67 toothbrushes in February. In March he gave away 46 toothbrushes. How many toothbrushes does he have left?
164 toothbrushes
After spending $5.50, Ann still has $2.40 left. How much money did Ann start with?
$7.90