Addition Word Problems
Nayin traveled 352 miles last year. His brother traveled 294 miles. How many miles did they travel in all?
What is 646 miles?
Mrs. Floren has 255 recipes to organize. She has organized 42 of them. How many more recipes does she need to organize?
What is 213 recipes?
4,378 + 2,489 = ?
What is 6,867?
A sentence that contains an equal sign, showing that two expressions are equal.
What is an equation?
There is a mother elephant and a baby elephant at the zoo. The mother elephant weights 6,934 pounds and the baby weights 377 pounds. How much do they weigh altogether?
What is 7,311 pounds?
A page has 225 words. A shorter page has 123 words. How many more words does the longer page have than the shorter page?
What is 102 words?
Christine wore a pedometer as part of a P.E. class experiment. She walked 399 steps Monday morning and 333 on Monday afternoon. How many more steps did she walk in the morning than the afternoon?
What is 66 steps?
7,749 + 9,742 = ?
What is 17,491?
Adrian drove 463 miles in his new car the first week he owned it. He drove 194 miles the second week. How many miles did Adrian drive these two weeks?
What is 657 miles?
There were 5,212 popsicles eaten last summer. There were 6,935 popsicles eaten this summer. How many more popsicles were eaten this year than last year?
What is 1,723 popsicles?
A store wants to earn $10,000 this year. So far, they have earned $8,200. How much more money will they have to earn to meet their goal?
What is $1,800?
625 - 423 = ?
What is 202?
Reia wants to buy a car that costs $35,500. There is a sale on Sunday. If she buys the car on Sunday, she will save $2,400. How much will the car cost on Sunday?
What is $32,600 on Sunday?
Target Field can seat 40,000 people. If there are already 5,700 people seated in the stadium, how many more people can be seated in the stadium?
What is 34,300 people?
$7,888 - $1,470 = ?
What is $6,418?
Another name for a number story.
What is a word problem?
Liam's drawing group is selling coupon books for charity. Liam sold 23 books and his friend Paris sold 31. They have 6 books left to sell. How many total books did the two boys have to sell?
What is 60 books?
Salma and her mother baked 48 cookies. She took 24 cookies to school and her friend ate some too. They now have 18 cookies. How many cookies did Salma's friend eat?
What is 6 cookies?
Aiden painted 12 paintings for the school art show. He sold 6 paintings the first day. He painted 4 more to show the second day. He sold 8 paintings the last day. How many paintings did Aiden not sell?
What is 2 paintings?
644 - 209= ?
What is 435?
The number that is added to another number.
What is an addend?