1-Step Problems
There are 4 tables in the art room. Each table has 12 markers. How many markers are there in all?
48 Markers
Each student needs 8 red markers and 6 blue markers for an art project. If there are 4 students at a table, how many markers does the whole table need?
56 markers
A puppy is 9 weeks old and weighs 18 pounds. He eats 14 treats every week. How many treats does he eat in 5 weeks?
70 treats
(Extra Info: "A puppy is 9 weeks old and weighs 18 pounds.")
Sarah bought 6 boxes of pencils for her classroom. How many pencils did she buy in all?
How many pencils are in each box?
Sally solved the following problem: "There are 4 shelves with 16 books on each shelf. How many books are there in all?"
Here is her work: 16 + 4 = 20 books
What is her mistake, and what is the correct answer?
She added the numbers instead of multiplying!
16 x 4 = 20 books
Maya bought 3 packs of trading cards. Each pack has 26 cards inside. How many cards did Maya buy altogether?
78 cards
Maya bought 3 packs of chocolate chip cookies with 16 cookies in each pack. She also bought 4 packs of oatmeal cookies with 12 cookies in each pack. How many cookies did Maya buy in all?
96 cookies
There are 32 fourth-graders and 28 fifth-graders going on a field trip. Each fourth-grader needs $4 for lunch. How much money do the fourth-graders need in all?
$128
(Extra Info: "28 fifth-graders")
Leo read 18 pages of his book on Monday. On Tuesday, he read twice as many pages as he did on Wednesday. How many pages did Leo read on Tuesday?
How many pages did Leo read on Wednesday?
Marcus solved the following problem: "A van can hold 24 students. How many students can ride in 3 vans?"
Here is his work: 24 x 3 = 612 students
What is his mistake, and what is the correct answer?
He wrote down the 12 from 4 x 3 without regrouping the 1 ten into the tens place.
24 x 3 = 72 students
A baker makes 135 muffins every morning. How many muffins does she make in 4 days?
540 muffins
A baker made 250 cupcakes for a school event. She sold 35 of them in the morning and packed the rest into boxes. If she did this exact same routine for 4 days in a row, how many cupcakes did she pack into boxes altogether?
860 cupcakes
A library book has 215 pages and 18 chapters. Mia reads 3 books that are the exact same length. How many pages did Mia read altogether?
645 pages
(Extra Info: "18 chapters")
A baker made 4 trays of muffins with 12 muffins on each tray. She sold some of the muffins at the morning bake sale. How many muffins does the baker have left?
How many muffins did she sell at the morning bake sale?
Chloe solved the following problem: "A train travels 204 miles each day. How far does it travel in 3 days?"
Here is her work: (20 x 3) + (4 x 3) = 60 + 12 = 72 miles
What is her mistake, and what is the correct answer?
She treated the 2 in the hundreds place as a 20 instead of 200.
(200 x 3) + (4 x 3) = 600 + 12 = 612 miles
An airplane flies 1,242 miles on each trip. If the plane makes 3 trips, how many miles does it fly in total?
3,726 miles
A delivery truck carries 350 boxes of water bottles on every trip. Each box holds 4 bottles. How many water bottles does the truck deliver in 3 trips?
4,200 water bottles
A delivery truck weighs 5,000 pounds and carries 1,420 boxes of apples. Each box holds 36 apples. If the truck makes 2 deliveries, how many boxes of apples did it deliver?
2,840 boxes
(Extra info: "A delivery truck weighs 5,000 pounds" and "Each box holds 36 apples.")
Maya is saving up to buy a new bike. She earns $15 a week babysitting and has already saved for 6 weeks. How much more money does Maya need to buy the bike?
What is the total cost of the new bike?
Leo solved the following problem: "A gamer had 5,000 coins. He bought 3 upgrades that cost 1,200 coins each. How many coins does he have left?"
Here is his work: 1,200 x 3 = 3,600 coins
What is his mistake, and what is the correct answer?
Leo stopped after step 1 (finding how much he spent) and forgot to subtract from 5,000.
1,200 x 3 = 3,600
5,000 - 3,600 = 1,400 coins
A delivery driver drives 46 miles every day on her route. How many miles does she drive in 32 days?
1,472 miles
A rectangular classroom floor is 28 feet long and 36 feet wide. A large reading rug covers 120 square feet of the floor. How much of the classroom floor is not covered by the rug?
888 square feet
At the arcade, games cost 2 tokens each. Liam played 16 times and won 53 tickets on every turn. His sister won 95 tickets. How many tickets did Liam win?
848 tickets
(Extra Info: "games cost 2 tokens each" and "his sister won 95 tickets.")
Tickets to the school play cost $8 for adults and $5 for kids. The auditorium has 20 rows with 15 seats in each row, and every single seat was filled for Friday's show! How much money did the school make from ticket sales?
How many of the people in the seats were adults, and how many were kids?
Maya solved the following problem: "A school ordered 34 boxes of markers. Each box holds 26 markers. How many markers did the school order in all?"
Here is her work: (see paper)
What is her mistake, and what is the correct answer?
She forgot to add a zero (lay an egg)!
884 markers