What operation do I use?
What is the sum?
What is the difference?
Word Problems
Math words
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What is the operation for this word problem? John and Mike had four horses each. How many were in the field?
Addition 4 + 4 = 8
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What is 35 + 12 ?
3 5 + 1 2 --------- 4 7
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What is 10 - 5?
10 - 5 ------ 5
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Eric and Steve had twelve toy cars. They lost five. How many are left?
7
100
This means when you add two numbers together and get the answer. The answer is the what?
What is a sum?
200
What is the operation for this word problem? Sara had nine marbles. She gave six to Joey. How many did she have left?
Subtraction 9 - 6 = 3
200
What is 45 + 34?
4 5 + 3 4 ---------- 7 9
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What is 21- 9?
1 11 2 1 - 9 -------- 1 2
200
Lola and Meka had baked tweny cookies. They ate 4. How many were left?
16
200
This means that you have subtracted two numbers and got the answer. The answer is what?
What is the difference?
300
What is the operation for this word problem? There were fourteen students in the class. Ten from Mr. Barn's class came for a movie. How many were in the whole class?
Addition 14 + 10 = 24
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What is the sum of 29 + 46 ?
1 2 9 + 4 6 ----------- 7 5
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What is the difference between 85 and 44?
8 5 - 4 4 _______ 4 1
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There were 13 students in Mrs. Miller's class. Mr. Donovan's class had 14 in his class. How many students were all togeher in both classes?
27
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This is what you do to a problem to find the answer. This could be either subtraction or addition.
What is an operation?
400
What is the opperation for this word problem? Kayla, Andy, and Megan each had five cookies. How many did they have all together?
Addition 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
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What is the sum of 123 + 321?
1 2 3 + 3 2 1 ------------- 4 4 4
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What is the difference between 63 and 46?
5 13 6 3 - 4 6 ------------ 1 7
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There were 64 pieces of candy on the table. Some students ate 12 pieces. How many were left in all?
54
400
If you saw a problem with " How many in all." What operation would you use?
addition
500
What is the operation for this word problem? Jerry 25 army men. He gave Joe 5 of them. Then he gave 2 to Mark. How many were left?
Subtraction
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What is the sum of 169 + 253?
1 1 1 6 9 + 2 5 3 ------------- 4 2 2
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What is the difference betwen 168 and 49?
5 18 1 6 8 - 4 9 ----------------- 1 1 9
500
There were five bears. Each bear had three apples. How many apples did the bears have in all?
15
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If you saw a problem that said " How many are left?" What operation would you use?
subtraction