Fractions
Word Problems
Plus and Minus
Money, Money, Money
Area vs. Perimeter
100

Mrs. Jenzano has a bag of 12 fruits. Of those fruits, 3/12 are pears, 6/12 are apples, and the rest are oranges. How many oranges are in the bag?

What is 3 oranges?

100
Mrs. Delizza has 2 shelves of books. Each shelf has 4 books on it. How many books does Mrs. Delizza have? She finds out that each book only has 11 pages. How many pages do her books have all together?
What is 8 books and 88 pages?
100

235 + 643 =

What is 878?

100

Ms. Stewart has 5 baskets of oranges and each basket can hold 4 oranges. How many oranges are there all together? She finds out that every basket of oranges costs $3. How much would it cost her?

What is 20 oranges and $60?

100
A house has a rectangular tile kitchen that is 7 tiles wide and 8 tiles long. It also has a rectangular dining room that is 9 tiles wide and 10 tiles long. How many tiles are used for the floors of the kitchen and dining room?
What is 146 tiles?
200
There are eight children on the school bus. Five are boys. What fraction of the children are boys?
What is 5/8ths?
200

Ms. Bonenberger has 7 boxes of colored pencils. She has 9 pencils in each box. She also has 17 colored pencils on her desk. How many pencils does Ms. Bonenberger have?

What is 80 pencils?

200

500 - 247 =

What is 253?

200

Michael, Griffin, and Jackson have saved $35 to buy a soccer ball. How much did Michael save, if Griffin saved $14 and Jackson saved $12?

What is $9?

200
A rectangular swimming pool measures 10 meters by 7 meters. What is the area of the swimming pool?
What is 70 meters?
300

Mrs. Brown bought 8 sweaters. Four of them are blue. What fraction of the sweaters are not blue?

What is 4/8ths or 1/2?

300

Mrs. Elliot baked 356 cookies for the bake sale. Her mother baked another 299. They sold 387 cookies at the bake sale. How many cookies did they have left?

What is 368 cookies?

300

Mallory and Harmony had a collection of 78 dolls. If Mallory has 49 of them, Harmony has how many...

What is 29

300

Mrs. Brown's third grade class wants to go on a field trip to the science museum. The cost of the trip is $245. The class can earn money by running the school store for 6 weeks. The students can earn $15 each week if they run the store. How much more money does the third grade class still need to earn to pay for their trip?

What is $155?

300

Brodie's backyard needs to be fenced in. The lengths of both sides are 12 yards and the width of both sides are 15 yards. What is the perimeter of Brodie's backyard?

What is 54 yards?

400

Jahziah ate 1/6 of the celery sticks. How much is left for John to eat?

What is 5/6?

400
Mrs. Brown has 120 stamps. First, she gave her friend half her stamps. Then she used 4 stamps to mail bills. How many stamps does Mrs. Brown have left?
What is 56 stamps?
400

There were 305 pennies in the jar. Customers borrowed 47 of them yesterday and another 127 of them today. There were _____ pennies left in the jar. 

What is 131?

400
Mrs. Bonenberger went shopping. She paid $49 for a dress and $23 for a pair of shoes. She gave the cashier a $100 bill. How much change should she get back?
What is $28?
400
Mrs. Stein’s living room is 12 meters long and 8 meters wide. How much carpet will Mrs. Stein’s need to cover her living room?
What is 96 meters?
500

Makai picks 2/5 of the apples on the tree. What fraction of apples is left for Ellis to pick?

What is 3/5?

500
A team of 12 basketball players is formed with some of the third graders at our school. The school has 5 third grade classes, with 25 students in each class. How many 3rd graders in the school will not be a part of the basketball team?
What is 113 students?
500

Bria and Angie sold 45 cups of lemonade and gave away 8 cups for free! If they cost $2 per cup, they made $____ that day. 

What is $90?

You don't count the free cups!

500

Mrs. DeLizza sold her paintings for $5 each and her keychains for $3 each. If she sold 4 paintings and 3 keychains, she made $_____. 

What is $29?

500

Tyrese has a tent that is 5 feet wide by 13 feet long. Erik wants to buy a plastic tarp to go under the tent. The tarps are sold for $4.00 per square foot. How much would it cost to buy a tarp that is the same size as Tyrese's tent?

What is $260?