Animals
Holiday
Cookie Monster and Friends
School Life
Music
100

A dog had a litter of nine puppies.  3 were male.  How many were female?

6 females

100

There has already been 2 days of Hanukkah.  There are a total of 8 days.  How many days are left?

6 days

100

Cookie Monster ate 20 cookies.  Elmo at 3 less cookies than Cookie Monster.  How many cookies did Elmo eater?

17 cookies

100

DJ had 12 pencils.  Ari had 7 fewer pencils than DJ.  How many pencils did Ari have?

5 pencils.

100

There are 7 djembes in the music room.  There are also 13 xylophones.  How many instruments in all?

20  instruments

300

A zoo has 240 species of birds on display.  They have 30 less species of fish.  How many species of birds and fish do they have on display in all?

450 birds and fish

300

Santa Claus visited 351 homes in Pepperminttown.  He visited 129 more homes in Ornamentville.  How many homes did he visit in all?

831 homes in all

300

Cookie Monster was selling cookies.  He sold 520 boxes on Sesame Street.  Then he sold 120 fewer boxes in Brooklyn.  How many boxes did he sell in Brooklyn?

400 boxes

300

The lunch workers made 620 lunches.  There were 98 left over after the kids went through the lunch lines.  How many lunches were sold?

522 lunches

300

Li'l Nas X wrote 259 lines of lyrics for his last album. Ice Cube wrote 232 more lines of lyrics than L'il Nas X.  How many lines did they write in all?

750 lines of lyrics total

500
There are 1,203 elephants in the Elephant Refuge.  There are 603 less in the wild outside of the Refuge.  How many elephants are there total?


Draw a bar model to represent the problem.

1,803 elephants

500

It is estimated that up to 2,000,000 African Americans celebrate Kwanzaa each year.  Another estimate puts that number at 1,500,000 fewer.  What is the lower estimated number of African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa?

Draw a bar model to represent the problem.

500,000 African Americans

500

Cookie Monster is the lead cookie maker at the Sesame Cookie Factory.  In his first year, he sold, 7,452 boxes of cookies.  He sold 2,529 more the second year.  How many boxes of cookies did he sell in all?

Draw a bar model to represent the problem.

17,433 boxes of cookies

500

There are 2,007 students at Cooper High School.  There are 1,023 fewer students at Robbinsdale Middle School.  How many students are at both the middle and high school?

Draw a bar model to represent this problem.

2,991 students total

500

Aesop Rock, a local Minnesotan Hip Hop Artist, used 7,879 unique words in his first 35,000 published lyrics.  This was 4,393 more unique words than Lil Wayne used in his first 35,000 published lyrics.  How many words did Lil Wayne use?  How many did they use in all?

Lil Wayne: 3,486 unique words

11,365 words in all