Mental Math
Estimate by Rounding
Adding Whole Numbers
Subtracting Whole Numbers
Multi-step word problems
100

What number makes the sentence true?

28 + 79 = _____ + 28

79

100

Estimate: 3,823 + 3,219 

(Round to the thousands place.)

7,000

100

Victor ate 839 hamburgers. Freddy ate the same amount of hamburgers. How many hamburgers did they eat altogether?

1,678 hamburgers

100

Mr. Jamison read at the library for 7,939 minutes. Ms. Jamison read at the library for 3,213 minutes. How many more minutes did Mr. Jamison read?

4,726 minutes

100

Ms. Crough milks her cows twice a day. This morning she got 365 gallons of milk. This evening she got 380 gallons. Then, she sold 612 gallons to the local ice cream factory. How many gallons of milk does she have left?

133 gallons

200

What number makes the sentence true?

2 + (3 + 1) = (2 + ____) + 1

 3

200

Estimate: 519,348 + 283,193 

(Round to the thousands place.)

802,000

200

2,193 + 7,189

9,382

200

812,383 - 300,372

512,011

200

Ms. Bruce has 982 pounds of grain. She feeds 240 pounds to her pigs and 460 to her cows. How many pounds of grain does she have left?

282 pounds of grain

300

What number makes the sentence true?

75 + 20 = 50 + ______ + 20

25

300

Estimate: 917,189 - 642,137 

(Round to the nearest hundred.)

275,100

300

523,948 + 284,182

808,130

300

993,034 - 389,341

603,693

300

Ms. Williamson baked 200 loaves of bread on Monday morning. She sold 93 loaves in the morning and 39 loaves in the afternoon. How many loaves of bread did she have left?

107 loaves left

400

Garrett drove 239 miles on Saturday and 149 miles on Sunday. To find 239 + 149 using mental math, Garrett made one of the numbers a multiple of ten as shown below. What is the missing number?

239 + 149     =      240 + _____      = 388

148

400

Estimate: 594,389 - 435,727

(Round to the nearest hundred.)

158,700

400

895,193 + 234,510

1,129,703

400

70,009 - 23,478

46,531

400

Ms. McInnis brought 80 cupcakes to school on her birthday. She gave a cupcake to each of the 23 students in her class. Later, she gave 35 cupcakes to her teacher friends. How many cupcakes does Ms. McInnis have left?

22 cupcakes

500

Jillian was training for a marathon. She needs to run a total of 402 miles according to her training plan. So far, she has run 195 miles. In order to mentally determine how much more she needed to run, she adjusted the numbers in her head as shown below. What number is missing?

402 - 195     =      400 - _______      = 207

193

500

Guerrero collected 73,213 empty soda cans. Red Bird collected 39,422 empty soda cans. ABOUT how many more soda cans did Guerrero collect? Estimate your answer by rounding to the nearest thousand.

112,000

500

Use a bar model to represent and solve this problem. There were 5,393 people at the state fair on Friday. On Saturday there were 6,119 people at the state fair. How many people were at the fair altogether on both days?

11,512 people

500

Use a bar model to represent and solve this problem. Oscar wants to save $5,300 to go to Disneyland. If he has already saved 3,278 how much more does he need to save?

$2,022

500

In fourth grade there were 96 students at the start of the year. During the year 28 students moved away and 42 new students came to school. How many students were in fourth grade at the end of the year?

110 students