Word Problems Addition
There are 14 baby chicks in the hen's house. 10 more baby chicks are born. How many baby chicks are in the hen's house now?
24 baby chicks
Ben made 73 cupcakes for his son's birthday party. 45 of the cupcakes were eaten. How many cupcakes did ben have leftover?
28 cupcakes
135 toys
Janette built 10 bookcases for the library. The neighbor built 15 bookcases for the library. A little kid knocked over 4 bookcases and broke them. How many bookcases were left?
21 bookcases
What does the word "total" mean?
Add everything/sum
Dad plants 22 flowers in his garden. Mom plants 14 flowers in the garden the next day. How many flowers are in the garden altogether?
36 flowers in the garden.
Symetra was very hungry and ordered 13 burgers from McDonalds. Symetra are her food and was left with 8 burgers. How many burgers did Symetra eat?
5 burgers
We had 18 red bows and 14 green bows in a box. The next day, Dad bought 4 red bows and 15 green bows. How many bows are there of each color?
22 red bows and 29 green bows
Danny made 32 pies for his family dinner. Mom ate 3 blueberry pies, his brother Jack ate 4 strawberry pies, and his grandpa ate 7 apple pies. How many pies were left at the end of the dinner?
18 pies
In addition, name three key words to look for in a word problem.
total, sum, altogether, etc.
On Halloween, Marie collected 37 pieces of candy. Richard collected 45 pieces of candy. They put all of their candy into one bucket. How many pieces of candy are in the bucket?
82 pieces of candy
Spongebob cooked 300 krabby patties at work. Patrick ate 240 of them in the first hour of his shift. How many Krabby patties were left for the customers?
60 krabby patties.
Mcdonald's sold 67 Happy Meals and 34 Big Macs on Friday. The next week, orders tripled! How many Happy Meals and how many Big Macs were sold the next week?
201 Happy meals and 102 Big Macs
Mavis went to the park to eat lunch with her best friend. They has $20 to split between them. Mavis bought a hot dog, lemonade, and ice cream. Christine bought a hot dog and ice cream. A hot dog is $4, lemonade is $1.25, and ice cream is $2.30. How much money did they have left?
$6.15
What does the word "difference" mean in a word problem?
subtraction
Tim collects antique postcards. At the first store, he bought 19 postcards from the 1960's. At the second store, he bought 18 postcards from the 1970's. How many postcards did he buy that day?
37 postcards
Harold went to the grocery store with $100 dollars. He bought an apple for $1, bananas for $5, chicken for $28 dollars, chocolate for $6, and toilet paper for $10. How much money does Harold have after visiting the grocery store>
$50
Sarah bought a puppy for $500 dollars at the pet store. She went to Pet Smart to buy his supplies. She bought a dog bed for $14.95, a leash for $10.60, and dog food for $20.80. What was the total amount that Sarah spent that day?
$546.35
Jerry enjoys planting flowers in his garden. John enjoys mowing the grass. John accidentally mowed 72 of Jerry's hydrangeas. Jerry orginally had 86 hydrangeas, 34 petunias, and 16 sunflowers. How many flowers did Jerry have left?
64 flowers
Name three key words used in subtraction word problems.
difference, left, fewer, less, etc.
Rapunzel told Flynn that she brushed 72 knots from her hair this morning. Flynn was shocked and bought her a bigger brush. The next day, Rapunzel brushed out 50 knots. On the third day, Rapunzel brushed 38 knots from her hair. How many knots did Rapunzel brush on the second and third day?
88 knots
Mrs. Landrum and Ms. Connelly bought 30 bottles of paint for class. We each put 10 bottles of paint in each of our classrooms. With the paint leftover, how would you evenly divide it between our classes?
There are 10 bottles of remaining paint which means that 5 bottles would go to each classroom.
Donald Duck bought Goofy a guitar for $8,000. Goofy didn't like the guitar, so he pawned it for $2,478. Goofy then bought a drum set for $1,235. How much money did Goofy have left over? How much money did Donald Duck lose after he pawned the guitar?
Goofy was left with $1243. Donald Duck lost $5,522
Dr. Scheu had 67 marbles. He wanted to give each of his friends an even amount of marbles. If Dr. Scheu handed out marble to 4 friends, how many marbles would each friend have? How many would be left over?
16 marbles and 3 left over
What are 2 strategies you use to solve word problems.
highlighting key words, underlining numbers, etc.