Name That Property
Complete the Equation
Apply the Property
Word Problems
100

What property is shown?
7 + 4 = 4 + 7

What is Commutative Property of Addition?

100

Use the Commutative Property to complete:
8 + 15 = ___ + ___

What is 15 + 8?

100

Use a property to make this problem easier:
9 + 37 = ?

What is 37 + 9=46?

100

A student says:
8 − 3 = 3 − 8 because subtraction is commutative.
Is the student correct?

What is No. Subtraction is not commutative.

200

What property is shown?
(3 + 5) + 2 = 3 + (5 + 2)

What is the associative property?

200

Use the Commutative Property to rewrite:
27 + 14 = ___ + ___

What is 14 + 27?

200
58 - 0 = ___?

What is 58?

200

A student says:
(20 − 5) − 3 = 20 − (5 − 3) because subtraction is associative.
Is the student correct?

What is "no, subtraction is not associative?"

300

What property is shown?
46 + 0 = 46

What is the identity property?

300

Use the Identity Property to complete:
32 + ___ = 32

What is 0?

300

67 - 67 = _____?

What is 0?

300

Mia has 24 stickers and gets 16 more. Her friend says she can solve 24 + 16 by switching the numbers to 16 + 24. What property is she using?

What is the commutative property?

400

What property is shown?
12 + 9 = 9 + 12

What is the commutative property?

400

Complete the equation using the Associative Property:
(25 + 15) + 5 = 25 + (___ + ___)

What is 15 + 5?

400

41 + ____ = 53 

(You must explain how you solved for the missing addend). 

What is 12?

What is "Subtract 53 minus 41?"

400

A teacher has 35 pencils and then receives 0 more pencils. How many pencils does she have? What property helps explain this?

What is the identity property?

500

What property is shown?
(10 + 6) + 4 = 10 + (6 + 4)

What is the associative property?

500

Use the Associative Property to complete:
(4 + 7) + 6 = 4 + (___ + ___)

What is 7 + 6?

500

Use the Associative Property to solve mentally:
17 + 13 + 7 + 3

What is (17+13)+(7+3)=40?

500

A school library has 125 fiction books and 75 nonfiction books. Then it receives 25 more fiction books and 25 more nonfiction books. Use properties of addition to make this problem easier to solve mentally.

What is (125 + 75) + (25 + 25) = 200 + 50 = 250 books?