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The kitchen had 9 pieces of plastic food and then Ms. Peggy bought some more pieces of plastic food. Now there are 16 pieces of plastic food.
How many pieces did Ms. Peggy buy?
9 + ? = 16
Ms. Peggy bought 7 pieces.
The crayon basket had some glue stick and then Raet put in 2 more. Now the basket has 6 glue sticks. How many did the basket have at the beginning?
? + 2 = 6
The basket had 4 glue sticks at the beginning.
Ayden has 10 cousins at his party and then 5 leave. How many cousins are left?
10 - 5 = ?
Ayden has 5 cousins left.
Rae has 9 bracelets but she takes some off. Now she has 3. How many bracelets did she take off?
9 - ? = 3
Rae has 6 bracelets left.
First, Ms. Ruth gave me 2 chocolates and then Ms. Lema gave me some more chocolates. Now I have 10 chocolates.
How many chocolates did Ms. Lema give me?
2 + ? = 10
Ms. Lema gave me 8 chocolates.
At the park, kids are on the swings. There were some empty swings and then 3 kids left. Now there are 6 empty swings in all. How many were empty at the beginning?
? + 3 = 6
At the beginning, there were 3 empty swings.
Gabriel has 7 cousins. 5 are girls and the rest are boys. How many cousins are boys?
7 - 5 = ?
Gabriel has 2 boy cousins.
There are 13 home lunch kids but some children forgot to bring their lunchboxes to lunch. When the class gets to the cafeteria only 10 children have their lunchboxes. How many kids forgot their boxes?
13 - ? = 10
3 children forgot their lunchboxes.
Ms. Maroney read 9 pages of her book in the morning and some more pages on the bus. At the end of the day she had read 12 pages.
How many pages did she read on the bus?
9 + ? = 12
She read 3 pages on the bus.
Liam has a pencil basket and then Harrison gave him 6 more pencils. Now the basket has 12 pencils. How many pencils did Liam have to start?
? + 6 = 12
Liam had 6 pencils to start.
Aidan has 19 LOLs but when he went to school, he left 10 at home. How many LOLs did Aidan bring to school?
19 - 10 = ?
Aidan brought 9 LOLs to school.
Ms. Peggy made 14 cookies but she gave a few to Ms. García. She only has 2 cookies left.
How many cookies did she give to Ms. García?
14 - ? = 2
She gave 12 to Ms. Garcia.
On Saturday, there were 8 children at the park, and on Sunday, there were just a few kids there. By the end of the weekend, 19 children had visited the park.
How many kids visited on Sunday?
8 + ? = 19
11 kids visited on Sunday.
I have a big bag of cubes. Then I add ten more cubes. Now I have 30 cubes total.
How many did I have at the beginning?
? + 10 = 30
There were 20 cubes in the beginning.
Emmanuel and Juliette each have 5 candies. Then they each gave their dad 2 candies. How many candies do they have left in all?
5 - 2 = ?
5 - 2 = ?
3 + 3 = 6
Emmanuel and Juliette have 6 candies left in all.
On Monday, Ms. Madrigal collects all the homework notebooks for her class. She has 25 students. Some kids are absent. When she counts the notebooks, she only has 22 notebooks.
How many kids are absent?
25 - ? = 22
There are 3 kids absent.
At the library, Aidan borrowed Ugly Fish, A Pet for Petunia, How to Babysit a Grandpa, Roberto Clemente, Ruby the Copycat, and a few other books. He left with 9 books total.
How many other books did he borrow?
5 + ? = 9
Aidan took 4 extra books.
I have 20 flowers in total. Some are roses and 5 rest are daffodils. How many are roses there?
? + 5 = 20
There are 15 roses.
Mason has 10 Pokemon cards. He gives 5 to Alejandro and 2 to Joshua. How many Pokemon cars does he have left?
10 - 5 - 2 = ?
Mason has 3 Pokemon cards left.
On Monday Liam read 6 books and on Tuesday he read some more. He read 9 books total.
On Monday Harrison read 7 books and on Tuesday he also read more. He also read 9 books, total.
Who read more books on Tuesday?
9 - ? = 6
9 - ? = 7
They both read the same number of books on Tuesday.