Mental Math
Estimating Sums and Differences
Adding Whole Numbers
Subtracting Whole Numbers
Subtracting Across Zeros
100

527+61

588

100

Estimate by rounding to the nearest 10:

1687+284=

830+160=990

100

9861+571=

10,432

100

1,234-924=

310

100

500-372

128

200

542-32

510

200

Estimate by rounding to the nearest 100:

67,753+1729

67,800+1700=68,500

200

The fourth grade class donated 8,029 boxes of fried onions, and 9,834 boxes of mashed potatos. How much did they donate in all?

17,863

200

84,724-28,342

56,382

200

6,000-2,423

3,577

300

813-768

45

300

Estimate to the nearest 10

5323-2611=

5320-2610=2710

300

67,829,823+519,848=

68,349,671

300

741,982-316,414=

425,568

300

802,320-527,513=

274,807

400

Miss Morrisey's class collected pencils for the community school supplies drive. Nick's group brought in 143 pencils and Mia's group added 78 more. How many pencils did the groups contribute all together?

221

400

Estimate to the nearest 100:

11,724-2,731

11,700-2,700=9,000

400

Jacob has read 58,230 books about dinosaurs. Leo has read 28,934 books about animals. How many books have they read all together?

87,164

400

Ellie and Addy raised $2,903,894 for student council in total. Ellie personally raised 1,009,342, how much did Addy raise?

1,894,552

400

Miss Morrisey won a shopping spree at target for $70,000. She has already spend $23,425 at the dollar spot. How much does she have left to spend?

46,575

500

8965-3624=

5341

500

This year 35,685 people ran in a marathon. Last year 8,683 fewer people ran. Rounding to the nearest 100, about how many people ran last year?

35,700-8,700=27,000

500

Miss Morrisey went to target and bought 20,198,374 christmas trees, 761,024,985 christmas lights. How many christmas items does she have in all?

781,223,359

500

Miss Morrisey bought 2,340,985,293 munchkins for the class. In the box there were glazed donuts, powdered sugar, pumpkin, and chocolate munchkins. 1,234,822 of those were regular glazed, 76,578,392 were powdered sugar, and 875,729,347 were pumpkin. How many were chocolate glazed?

1,387,442,732

500
4M won a trip and got to go to disney world. They had a budget of $8,002,785 and spent $6,700,453 on tickets, food, transportation, and merch. How much under budget did they get?

$1,302,332