Addition and Subtraction
A store sells 25 red shirts and 15 blue shirts. They receive a shipment of 10 more red shirts and 8 more blue shirts. How many shirts are there in total?
58 shirts
Susan has 20 stamps. She wants to organize them into 5 albums with an equal number of stamps in each album. How many stamps will be in each album?
4 stamps
Martha has 12 stamps. Toni has 21 stamps. Toni divides her stamps into 3 equal groups. She gives one group to Martha. How many stamps does Martha have now?
19 stamps
A Grade 3 class is going to buy buttons. Each package costs $8. Each package is 40 cm long. They need to know if $50 is enough money to buy 200 buttons.
Which given information do you NOT need to solve this problem?
Each package is 40 cm long.
Create a word problem where 24 gallons of milk is the answer.
Bonus: 2-Step Word Problem
Example: Farmer John has 2 cows, each cow produces 6 gallons of milk a day. How many gallons of milk do Farmer John's cows produce in 2 days?
A farmer has 48 apples. He gives 20 apples to his neighbors and then sells 10 apples at the market. How many apples does the farmer have left?
18 apples
Barry’s club is selling greeting cards. There are 6 cards in each pack. Each of his 2 aunts buys 5 packs of cards. How many cards do his aunts buy in total?
60 Cards
Alice takes out the trash whenever it gets too full. She takes out the trash in the kitchen 8 times each month. She takes out the trash in her bedroom 1 time each month. How many times does she take out the trash in 3 months?
27 times
Concert tickets for adults cost $12. Concert tickets for students cost $9. Marie has $190. She wants to buy 1 adult and 20 student tickets. Skip says, “$190 is enough for all the tickets because $𝟫×𝟤𝟢=$𝟣𝟪𝟢 and $180 is less than $190.”
Does Skip’s reasoning make sense? Explain.
No, Skip did not add the adult ticket which costs $12. $180 will cover the student ticket cost.
$180 + $12 = $192 which is $2 more than what Marie has.
Draw a bar diagram to represent the problem and solve.
Mr. Sato has $800. He spends $600 on rent. Then he spends $85 on groceries. How much money does he have left?
Correct Response drawn on the board.
Ukie has 142 leaves in her collection. She gives 25 to her brother and then collects 19 more. Find the number of leaves Ukie has now.
Ukie has 136 leaves
Six pounds of pecans are shared equally between 2 friends. Each pound has 60 pecans. How many pecans does each friend get?
180 pecans
Mr. Larson worked 5 days during the week. On each work day, he spent $7 on lunch. On Sunday, he spent $40 on lunch for his family. How much did he spend on lunches for the week?
$75
Meg wants to send her grandmother 135 letters. She sends 9 letters each month for 3 months. What is a good estimate for how many more letters Meg needs to send to reach her goal?
100 or 105 or 110
Draw bar diagrams to represent the problem.
A rancher has 24 cows. He puts an equal number of cows in 4 fields. Each cow produces 5 gallons of milk. How much milk do the cows in one field produce?
Correct Response is drawn on the board.
Matt had 327 plastic bottles for recycling. He recycled 118 bottles on Monday. He recycled 123 bottles on Tuesday. How many bottles does Matt have left to recycle?
Matt has 86 bottles left to recycle.
In a basketball game, Morgan made 9 shots, each worth 2 points. Jim scored the same number of points in the game. Jim’s shots were worth 3 points each. How many shots did Jim make?
6 shots
Tim has 232 erasers in his collection. His mother buys 24 more erasers for the family. She divides the new erasers equally among Tim and his 3 sisters. How many erasers does Tim have now?
Tim has 240 erasers now
Rose Hill Elementary School has 448 paper cups. Grade 3 uses 126 paper cups for a class project. Grade 2 uses 118 for a class picnic. Bette says that 126 + 118 = t cups are used in all, and that 448 - 244 = r cups are left. Is her answer reasonable? Explain why or why not.
Yes, Bette's answer is reasonable. First, you have to find the total number of cups used by both grade levels. Then, you will subtract the total number of cups used from the total the elementary school had in the beginning.
Mia saved an equal amount of money each week for 6 weeks. Heather saved $3 a week for 8 weeks. Mia and Heather saved the same total amount. Which equation could you use to help find how much Mia saved each week?
M = 24 ÷ 6
Richard had $236 in his savings account. He got $45 for his birthday and saved all but $16 of it. How much does Richard have in his savings account now?
$265
Eight teachers each bring 5 boxes of corn muffins to a school event. The muffins are shared equally among 240 students. How many students share 1 box?
6 students
Emma has a bag of 180 peaches. She uses 126 of them to make pies for a bake sale. She divides the rest equally among 6 friends. How many peaches will each friend get.
9 peaches for each friend
A store can buy boxes of 8 calculators each for $32 or boxes of 5 calculators each for $30. How much less is each calculator if the store buys boxes of 8 calculators each instead of boxes of 5 calculators each?
$2 less
Bobbi needs 48 yards of ribbon for a craft project. The ribbon costs $4 a yard. She spends $72 on ribbon. She wants to know how many more yards of ribbon she needs. Which equation could she use first to solve this problem?
72 ÷ 4= X