Story Problems
George needs 150 points to get a free baseball mitt. He has 55 points. How many more points does George need to get the mitt?
95 points
4,389 <>= 4,398
4,389 < 4,398
Round 355 to the nearest 10.
360
The town Jabez lives in has a population of 12,463 people. If 1,000 people move away, what will the population be?
11,463
Which means the same as 1,245?
A. 1 hundred +4 tens +5 ones
B. 1 hundred+ 2 thousand +4 tens +5 ones
C. 1 thousand+2hundred+4 tens +5 ones
C
Last year the pier at the beach was 485 ft. long. This year the made the pier longer. Now the pier is 795 ft long. How many feet were added to the pier?
310 feet
30,000+4,000+900+2 <>= 9,000+ 800+50+9
30,000+4,000+900+2 > 9,000+ 800+50+9
Round 34,975 to the nearest thousand.
35,000
Emily collects 1,675 pennies. Her sister collects 100 more pennies. How many pennies does Laura's sister collect?
1,775
What is the value of the 7 in 6,792?
700
Eric won 2,539 points the first time he played his new computer game. He won 4,182 points the second time he played. How many more points did Eric win the second time he played?
2,057 points
Order from greatest to least.
7,038 7,830 7,308
7,830 7,308 7,038
The Erickson family drove 322 miles during the first week of their road trip. The following week, they drove 589 miles. About how many more miles did they drive the second week than the first week?
About 300
David and Nick are playing a video game. David scores 12,458 points. Nick scores 10,000 more points than David. How many points does Nick score?
22,459
What digit is in the ten thousands place?
58,934
5
Bobby writes this subtraction sentence to find out how many more crayons than markers he has.
543-262=281
Write an addition sentence you can use to check Bobby's subtraction.
281+262=543
A nature park has many visitors during the summer. In June there were 2,042 visitors. In July there are 2,240 visitors and in August there are 2,024 visitors.
List the names of the months in order from the least number of visitors to the greatest.
July, June, August
The number of books in the school library rounded to the nearest thousand is 28,000. How many books could be in the school library? Choose all that apply.
A. 27,231 B. 27,763
C. 28,502 D. 28,275
B and D
One week Sam packs 19,429 books into boxes. The next week he packs 1,000 more. How many books did he pack that second week?
20,429
Write the number in standard form.
1 ten thousand+5 thousdands+9 hundrends+4 ones
15,904
Last year Pam's mom drove 8,335 miles. This year she drove 9,918. How much farther did she drive this year than last year?
1583
Rochester, Duluth, and Bloomington are cities in Minnesota. Rochester has a population of 99,121. Duluth has a population of 84,397. Bloomington has a population of 81,446.
List the towns in order from least population to greatest.
Bloomington, Duluth, Rochester
Round to the nearest hundred to estimate the sum.
423+ 153=
600
Gina has a book with 1,031 pages. She reads 100 pages this week. How many pages does Gina have left to read?
931
Liz's highest score on her favorite video game is 38,481. What is the value of the 3 in that number?
30,000