Mutant Math!

3rd grade Word Problems

100

1. The cost of each book is $3. What is the cost of 6 books?

$18.00

200

2. Roger works 8 hours in a day. How many hours does he work in 5 days?

40 hours

300

3. A bag contains 7 balls. How many balls are there in 8 bags?

56 balls

400

4. Kitty drinks 4 cups of milk in a day. How much milk does she drink in a week?

28 cups

500

5. Mia uses 7 ribbons on every card she makes. Mia wants to make 4 cards. How many ribbons does she need?

28 ribbons

Multiplication

100

9x9=?

9x9=81

200

8x7=?

8x7=56

300

7x4=?

7x4=28

400

8  X 8

8 X 8 = 64

500

12x12=

12x12=144

Division

100

21÷3=?

21/3=7

200

72÷8=?

72÷8=9

300

12÷3=?

12÷3=4

400

81 ÷ 9 =

81 ÷ 9 = 9

500

49 ÷ 7 =

49 ÷ 7 = 7

3rd Grade Multi-Step Problems

100

Vanessa was making baggies of cookies with 6 cookies in each bag. If she had 25 chocolate chip cookies and 29 oatmeal cookies, how many baggies could she make? 

(29+25)/6= 9 baggies 

200

There are 13 students trying out for the choir. If 3 of them didn't get picked and the rest were put into two groups, how many students would be in each group? 

(13-3)/2=5

300

Each chocolate bar in a box costs $6. If a box had 13 bars total and Zoey sold all but 6 bars, how much money would she have made? 

(13-6)x6=$42

400

Billy had 15 movies but 6 of them weren't working. If he wanted to sell the working games for $7 each, how much money could he earn? 

(15-6)x7=63

500

There are two friends playing video games online when two more players joined. If each player had six lives, how many lives did they have total? 

(2+2)x6= 24 lives 

3rd Grade Word Problems

100

1.Charles wants to plant 35 flowers in 5 flowerbeds. How many flowers should he plant in each flowerbed?

5 flowers

200

2. Dan sells a total of 32 candy bars to 8 neighbors. Each neighbor buys the same number of candy bars. How many candy bars does each buy?

4 candy bars

300

3. Ashley, Susana, and Liz bought a box of chocolates. There are 36 chocolates in the box. How many chocolates does each of them receive?

12 chocolates

400

4. The fine for an overdue library book is 5 cents a day. Tyler returned his books 1 day late. He paid a 30-cent fine. How many books did he return?

6 books

500

5. Maria puts 7 pictures on each page of her photo album. How many pages did she use for her 84 photographs of the Rocky Mountains?

12 pages