Word Problems
What is 368 + 432?
800
A meeting room has 24 chairs. If 32 people come to a meeting, how many more chairs are needed so that everyone has a chair?
8
Estimate: 39+82=
120
How much money is 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 1 nickel, and 6 pennies?
91 cents
combined means to ______.
add
The memory card on William’s camera will hold 282 pictures. If he has taken 124 pictures, how many more pictures can he take?
158
520
Lorena and Lex baked cookies all weekend. Saturday, they baked 426 cookies. Sunday, they baked 467 cookies. Approximately, how many cookies did they bake in all?
900 cookies
Brad wants to buy a bottle of juice from a vending machine for 70¢. How many dimes should he use to buy the juice with exact change?
7 dimes
how many more always means to ______.
subtract
Mark watered his garden three days last week. He watered on Monday for 22 minutes, on Wednesday for 27 minutes, and on Friday for 34 minutes. What was the total number of minutes Mark spent watering his garden last week?
83 minutes
184 + 52 + 87 =
323
What does approximately mean to do?
Round
Lee gave a friend 8 nickels. How much money is this?
40 cents
about means to _____.
round
Jeff has read the first 63 pages in a book that is 120 pages long. How many more pages does Jeff need to read?
57
Mr. James teaches a music class to fourth- and fifth-grade students. There are 13 fourth graders and 27 fifth graders in the class. Mr. James has 31 music books for the class. How many more music books does he need so each student can have one book?
9
Derek wants to buy two small bags of sunflower seeds. The bags cost 38¢ each. About how much money will he need to buy two bags?
80 cents
Julio has 3 quarters, 5 dimes, 4 nickels, and 12 pennies. How much does Julio have?
$1.57
3 key words that tell me to add
altogether, combined, sum, etc.
A party store has 702 purple balloons and 509 orange balloons. How many more purple balloons does the party store have than orange balloons?
193
Lucy and Kevin are working together to wash all 24 windows in their house. So far, Lucy has washed 7 windows and Kevin has washed 8 windows. How many windows are left to be washed?
9 windows
Clear Lake Elementary students are collecting cans to recycle. They collected 315 cans on Monday, 278 cans on Tuesday, and 371 cans on Wednesday. About how many cans did the students collect on these three days?
1,000
Juan has 5 one-dollar bills, 1 quarter, 4 dimes, 2 nickels, and 10 pennies. How much money does Juan have?
$5.85
3 key word that tell me to subtract
how many more, left, difference, etc.