One-Step Word Problems
There are 20 players on a team. There are 8 girls. The rest of the players are boys. How many boys are on the team?
20-8=?
There are 12 boys on the team.
The class goal is to raise $348. They raised $8 each day for 9 days. How much more money do they need to raise to reach their goal?
$276 more dollars
The product of 5X4=?
20
What is the missing number in the related facts?
5x?=40
?x5=40
40 (divided by) ?=5
40 (divided by) 5= ?
8
On the famous "Guess Who I Am" television show a mysterious shape gave these clues while hiding behind the curtain: "I have more sides than a square but less sides than a hexagon. I am a polygon." What was the name of the shape?
Pentagon
Seth ate 9 grapes. His dad gave him more grapes, and he ate them. Seth ate 15 grapes in all. How many grapes did Seth's dad give him?
15-9=?
Seth's dad gave him 6 grapes.
Sachi has 238 rocks in her collection. She finds 47 more rocks. Then she gives 159 rocks to her brother. How many rocks does Sachi have left?
126 rocks
The product of 9 and a number is 72.
What is the missing number?
8
What is the missing number in the related facts?
9x?=54
?x6=54
54 (divided by) ?=9
54 (divided by) 6=?
6, 9
Dr. Shapey was trying to complete his new museum of shapes. The only shape he is missing is a rectangle. A shape dealer offered him a pentagon, a triangle, or a square. Which one should he purchase for the display? Why?
A square because a square is a rectangle.
Ted has 8 white balloons and some red balloons. There are 2 fewer white balloons than red balloons.
How many red balloons does Ted have?
8+2=10
Ted has 10 red balloons.
Jackson has 48 trading cards. His sister gives him 12 more cards. Then he puts all of his trading cards in 6 equal stacks. How many cards are in each stack? Use c to represent the missing number in the equation.
48+12=60
60 (divided by) 6=c
10=c
There are 10 cards in each stack.
The quotient of 18 and a number is 9?
What is the missing number?
2
What is the product of 8x9?
List the related multiplication facts.
8x9=72
9x8=72
Eddie drew a quadrilateral that has 4 square corners and 4 equals sides of the same length. What shape did Eddie draw?
Kyle has 7 fish. He has 4 fewer fish than Ana. How many fish does Ana have?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 11
D. 12
Deb chose A as the answer. This answer is wrong. How did Deb get her answer?
C. 11
Deb subtracted 7-4. She should have added 7+4 instead.
Dawn buys 4 sets of baseball cards. Each set has 125 cards. He gives away 70 cards to his friends. Which expression below can be used to complete the equation?
A. (4+125)-70
B. (4X125)-70
C. 4X (125X70)
D. 4+ (125X70)
E. (4X125) + 70
What is the total number of cards left?
B. (4X125)-70
There are 430 cards left.
Diana bakes 14 bagels. She puts all of the bagels into 7 bags. Each bag has the same number of bagels. How many bagels does Diana put into each bag?
Write a division equation and a multiplication equation that you can use to solve the problem.
14 (divided by) 7= 2
7X2=14
What is the quotient of 64 (divided by) 8.
List the related facts.
64 (divided by) 8=8
Mrs. Kemp was looking out of her bedroom window at the rain falling onto the ground. Which words best describe the shape of her bedroom window?
a. rectangle
b. rhombus
c. quadrilateral
d. square
e. triangle
a. rectangle
b. rhombus
c. quadrilateral
d. square
Rick has 13 marbles. 4 marbles are blue. The rest are white. How many white marbles are there? Fill in the blanks. Then select all of the equations that can be used to solve the problem.
A. 13-4=___
B. 13-___=4
C. 13+4=___
D. 4+___=13
A. 13-4=9
B. 13-9=4
D. 4+9=13
13 is the total, so equations that show adding 9 and 4 or subtracting 9 or 4 from 13 can be used to solve the problem.
A farmer has 36 peaches in a box. She picks 24 more peaches and adds them to the box. She fills more boxes in the same way, and ends up with 5 boxes with the same number of peaches in each box. How many peaches are in the 5 boxes.
Cody says there are 65 peaches in the boxes. Is he correct? Explain your answer.
Cody is not correct. Cody just added all the numbers in the problem. To find the total number of peaches in each box, add 36 and 24 to get 60. Then multiply this sum by 5 to get the number of peaches in all boxes. There are 300 peaches in all.
Lenny has 48 crackers divided into piles. There are 8 crackers in each pile. How many piles of crackers does Lenny have?
Show the correct division equation.
Now, Lenny wants to use multiplication to solve the problem. He thinks, "What number times 48 gives me 8?"
Explain why Lenny is not correct. What is the correct answer?
48 (divided by) 8=6
The total number of crackers is 48. It should not be a factor. Lenny should think, "What number times 8 gives me 48?"
Lenny has 6 piles of crackers.
Must list 2 multiplication and 2 division equations.
Answer will vary
Which shapes are always quadrilaterals and not rectangles?