Math Word Problems

Claire and Maximus buy a small bag of popcorn and a pretzel at the movie theater. The pretzel weighs 63 grams more than the popcorn. If the popcorn weighs 44 grams, what is the weight of the pretzel? 

What does the key word tell you to do?

• add
• subtract 

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

It takes Tristan 15 minutes to mow the front lawn. It takes him 17 more minutes to mow the back lawn than the front lawn. What is the total amount of time Tristan spends mowing the lawns?

What does the key word tell you to do?

• add 
• subtract 
• mowing

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Mr. Green’s sunflower grew 31 centimeters in one week. The next week it grew 4 centimeters more than the previous week. What is the total number of centimeters the sunflower grew in 2 weeks? 

What words tell us what to do?

• grew
• more than
• total
• number of centimeters 

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Maddie ate 32 cookies.  Katie ate 12 cookies.  What is the difference between the amount of cookies Maddie ate and Katie ate.  

What words tell us what to do?

• difference 
• amount
• between

Tags

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

A restaurant made 72 muffins.  They sold 32 muffins.  How many muffins are left?

What words tell us what to do?

• how many
• made 72 muffins
• sold 
• left

Tags

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

There are 549 fifth graders at an elementary school. At the same school, there are 492 4th graders. About how many more 5th graders are there than 4th graders? 

• 70
• 60
• 50
• 40

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

Mario has room for 15 more minutes of songs on his iPod. He is going to upload three songs that are 5.15, 4.4, and 4.8 minutes long. About how many minutes will he have room for after he uploads these three songs? 

• 2 minutes
• 5 minutes
• 3 minutes
• 1 minute

Tags

CCSS.3.MD.A.1

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

A banner measures 2.8 feet long and 1.2 feet wide. Which is a good estimate for the area of the banner?

• 1 square foot
• 3 square feet
• 30 square feet
• 7 square feet

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

Mr. Timura bought catfish to stock his fishing tank the last three years. In the first year he bought 365 catfish, the second year he bought 272 catfish, and the third year he bought 112 catfish. How many catfish did he buy during the 3 years? 

• 649
• 739
• 749
• 1,424

Tags

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

Liza had 3 1/2 slices of pineapple, if she ate 2/3 of the 3 1/2  how much did she eat?

• 2
• 2 1/4
• 21 1/3
• 2 1/3

Tags

CCSS.5.NF.B.6