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Forty Little army ants marched up a tree. All but three of them ate a leaf. How many ate a leaf?
37
Today is Monday. What day of the week is 2 days after today?
Wednesday
Eight kids went to a costume party.Four wore costumes with purple and 7 wore costumes with orange. How many wore costumes with both colours? 3 Eight kids went to a costume party.Four wore costumes with purple and 7 wore costumes with orange. How many wore costumes with both colours?
3
How many times would you have to cut a piece of thread if you wanted 9 pieces?
8
17+2+3+18=
40
All but 56 workers in the candy factory like the smell of the candy. If there were 76 candy factory workers, then how many did not like the smell of candy?
56
Today is Tuesday, what day of the week is two days after tomorrow?
Friday
All of Miss Sweet’s 21 students love candy. 10 like hard candy, 15 like soft candy, and some like both hard candy and soft candy. How many students like both hard candy and soft candy?
4
David and 3 friends want to share an extra long chocolate bar. How many parallel cuts should David make?
3
15+9+5+33+7+11=
80
During the speedy soccer team’s practice, 20 soccer balls kicked towards the net. All but 11 went in. How many missed going in the net?
11
If the day after tomorrow is Saturday, then what day of the week is it today?
Thursday
All the children at Keith’s birthday party like pizza. 7 like cheese pizza, 6 like pepperoni pizza and 4 like both cheese and pepperoni pizza. How many children are at Keith’s birthday party?
9
Anthony wants to share his hotdog with 3 friends. How many parallel cuts does Anthony need to make that each one get 3 pieces?
11
9+15+33 +6+21+25+17 =
120
Marry millionaire invited 100 friends to her birthday party and they all came. All but 98 came without a present. How many friends came without a present?
2
If today is February27th /2016. What is the date of the day that comes 4 days after today?
March 2nd
All of the students in Mr. joke’s class signed up to be clowns in the Santa clause parade. 16 were clowns with big noses, 11 were clowns with big feet, and 5 had both big feet and big noses. How many students are in Mr. joke’s class?
22
Charley decides to make 12 sandwiches with her long loaf of Italian bread. Each sandwich is to have 2 slices of bread. How many parallel cuts will she need?
23
69+77+12+15+11+88+13+5=
290
10 students wrote the grade one math test. There were 14 questions on counting shapes, 6 on Venn diagram, 2 on all but and 8 on date problems. Every one of the students was able to answer all but 10 of the questions. How many questions all together did the students answer?
500
Today is July 1st, Canada day. Trudy and Judy went out to buy some red and white T-shirts to celebrate Canada Day. If they bought T-shirts 4 days after, 3 days before, the day before yesterday, did they get their T-shirts on time to wear them on Canada Day?
Yes
In a group of 46 students, 38 joined the drama club or the chess club or both. Of these, 23 were in the drama club and 22 join the chess club. How many students were only in the chess club?
15
Rachel wants to chop a log of wood into 4 pieces. It takes her 5 minutes to cut through the log. How long would it take her to chop the log into 4 pieces If each cut was parallel to each other?
15 minutes
-25+2+19-13+11-7+16+28+5+4=
40