Word Problems 1
Mrs. Leiby has 58 dollars in the bank. She spends 29 dollars at the store. How much money does Mrs. Leiby have now?
29 dollars
Mrs. Leiby has four bags of candy. Every bag has nine pieces of candy in it. How many pieces of candy does Mrs. Leiby have?
36 pieces of candy
What is the answer to an addition problem called?
Sum
Mrs. Leiby has five dollars. Mr. Leiby gives her three dollars. Then, she loses two dollars. How much money does she have now?
Six dollars
Complete the missing fact in the fact family.
2 x 3 = 6
3 x 2 = 6
6 / 3 = 2
______
6 / 2 = 3
Willow has 731 bones. Shaggy eats 284 of them. How many bones does Willow have now?
447 bones
Shaggy has 42 toys that he wants to give away to 6 of his friends. If every friend gets the same amount of toys, how many toys will each friend get?
7 toys
What is the answer to a subtraction problem called?
Difference
Willow has $239. Mrs. Leiby gives her $592. Then, Mr. Leiby gives her $899. (Lucky Willow!)
How much money does Willow have now?
$1,730
What multiplication fact could help you solve this problem:
81 / 9 = ___
9 x 9 = 81
Mario has 6,284 apple treats. Luigi gives him 1,499 more. How many does Mario have now?
7,783 treats
Taylor Swift has 48 concert tickets that she wants to give out to 8 radio stations equally. How many tickets will each radio station get?
6 tickets
What is the answer to a multiplication problem called?
Product
Mr. Leiby has 899 airplane models. Mrs. Leiby gives him 5,284 more for Christmas. He accidentally breaks 3,929 of them! How many does he have now?
2,254 models
Create a multiplication and division fact family for these numbers: 20, 4, 5
5 x 4 = 20
4 x 5 = 20
20 / 4 = 5
20 / 5 = 4
Mr. Leiby had some pencils. Mrs. Leiby gave him 83 more. Now, Mr. Leiby has 99 pencils. How many pencils did Mrs. Leiby give him?
16 pencils
Travis Kelce has three Super Bowl trophies. If he polishes each trophy 5 times a day, how many times will ONE trophy get polished in ONE week?
35 times
(5 times a day x 7 days = 35 polishes)
What is the answer to a division problem called?
Quotient
Luigi has 4,321 pea flake snacks. He eats 2,899 of them. Mario eats 992 of them. How many pea flake snacks are left?
430 pea flake snacks
Create a multiplication and division fact family for these numbers: 9, 99, 11
9 x 11 = 99
11 x 9 = 99
99 / 11 = 9
99 / 9 = 11
Shaggy had 483 squeaky toys. He loses some. Now he only has 284. How many toys did he lose?
199 toys
Mrs. Leiby needs to figure out how much money she still has! She started out the day with 100 dollars. She spent eight dollars at each of these places: Target, Walmart, Amazon, Sephora, and Ulta. How much money does Mrs. Leiby still have?
5 x 4 is an ____________.
5 x 4 = 20 is an _________.
Fill in the blanks. *Hint - each word starts with E!*
5 x 4 is an EXPRESSION.
5 x 4 = 20 is an EQUATION.
Mrs. Leiby won the lottery! She gets $89,928! She spends $48,329 on a new car. She gives $32,491 to charity. She puts $3,000 in the bank. How much money does Mrs. Leiby still have to spend (not counting what's in the bank)?
$6,108
Maria has forgotten how to do division! She sees this problem on the SOL: 48 / ___ = 8
How can Maria use fact families to help her find the missing number?
She can think - 8 times something equals 48.
She can use one of her strategies and see that 8 x 6 = 48, so since there is an 8 and 48 already there, the missing number is 6.
Also, how dare you forget how to do division, Maria?!