Identify the Operation
Maya has 8 red balloons and 5 blue balloons. Does she add or subtract to find the total number of balloons?
Add
Sarah has 45 stickers. She gets 27 more. How many stickers does she have now?
72
There are 5 baskets with 6 oranges in each. How many oranges total?
30
Ava has 12 pencils. She buys 4 more packs of 3 pencils each. How many pencils does she have now?
24
Which keyword tells you to add: "total", "left", or "per"?
total
Ben had 20 apples and gave 6 to a friend. Which operation will you use to find how many apples Ben has left
Subtract
A library has 312 books. 58 are checked out. How many books remain in the library?
254
A box holds 24 crayons. If you have 3 boxes, how many crayons do you have in total?
72
A movie theater sold 120 tickets. If tickets are sold in groups of 4 to families, how many families bought tickets?
30
Which keyword suggests subtraction: "sum", "difference", or "product"?
difference
A cookie pack has 4 rows of 6 cookies each. To find the total cookies in the pack, which operation do you use?
Multiply
A farmer harvested 654 apples and sold 289. How many apples are left?
365
A baker puts 8 cupcakes in each box. He fills 7 boxes. How many cupcakes did he box?
56
Jason had 90 baseball cards. He gave 15 to his friend. Then he put the rest into 5 equal stacks. How many cards are in each stack?
15
Which words suggest multiplication: "each", "times", or "left over"?
times and each
There are 36 students and 9 equal groups for a field trip. Which operation tells how many students per group?
Divide
Marco read 128 pages in March and 197 pages in April. How many pages did he read in both months combined?
325
56 candies are shared equally among 8 children. How many candies does each child get?
7
A gardener plants 6 rows of 9 flowers. After planting, she gives away 12 flowers. Which operation should you do first to answer "How many flowers remain?" and why?
42
Which phrase indicates division: "shared equally", "in all", or "combined"?
shared equally
A store sold 47 shirts on Monday and 28 on Tuesday. To find how many more shirts were sold on Monday than Tuesday, which operation would you use and why?
Subtract
A school had 1,024 pencils. They gave 378 to students and 145 to teachers. Find the number of pencils remaining.
501
A classroom has 144 chairs arranged equally in 12 rows. How many chairs are in each row?
12
A toy costs $27. If you buy 4 toys, then return 1 toy and get a refund of $27, what is the total cost you paid?
81
"How many more than?" Which operation does this point to and why
Subtraction-asking for the difference