Math Word Problems

1. Adding to 10: Ariel was playing basketball. 1 of her shots went in the hoop. 2 of her shots did not go in the hoop.
How many shots were there in total?
2. Adding to 20: Adrianna has 10 pieces of gum to share with her friends. There wasn’t enough gum for all her
friends, so she went to the store to get 3 more pieces of gum. How many pieces of gum does Adrianna have now?
3. Adding to 100: Adrianna has 10 pieces of gum to share with her friends. There wasn’t enough gum for all her
friends, so she went to the store and got 70 pieces of strawberry gum and 10 pieces of bubble gum. How many
pieces of gum does Adrianna have now?
4. Adding Slightly over 100: The restaurant has 175 normal chairs and 20 chairs for babies. How many chairs
does the restaurant have in total?
5. Adding to 1,000: How many cookies did you sell if you sold 320 chocolate cookies and 270 vanilla cookies?
6. Adding to and over 10,000: The hobby store normally sells 10,576 trading cards per month. In June, the hobby
store sold 15,498 more trading cards than normal. In total, how many trading cards did the hobby store sell in
June?
7. Adding 3 Numbers: Billy had 2 books at home. He went to the library to take out 2 more books. He then bought
1 book. How many books does Billy have now?
8. Adding 3 Numbers to and over 100: Ashley bought a big bag of candy. The bag had 102 blue candies, 100 red
candies and 94 green candies. How many candies were there in total?

Subtraction
9. Subtracting to 10: There were 3 pizzas in total at the pizza shop. A customer bought 1 pizza. How many pizzas
are left?
10. Subtracting to 20: Your friend said she had 11 stickers. When you helped her clean her desk, she only had a
total of 10 stickers. How many stickers are missing?
11. Subtracting to 100: Adrianna has 100 pieces of gum to share with her friends. When she went to the park, she
shared 10 pieces of strawberry gum. When she left the park, Adrianna shared another 10 pieces of bubble gum.
How many pieces of gum does Adrianna have now?
12. Subtracting Slightly over 100: Your team scored a total of 123 points. 67 points were scored in the first half.
How many were scored in the second half?
13. Subtracting to 1,000: Nathan has a big ant farm. He decided to sell some of his ants. He started with 965 ants.
He sold 213. How many ants does he have now?
14. Subtracting to and over 10,000: The hobby store normally sells 10,576 trading cards per month. In July, the
hobby store sold a total of 20,777 trading cards. How many more trading cards did the hobby store sell in July
compared with a normal month?
15. Subtracting 3 Numbers: Charlene had a pack of 35 pencil crayons. She gave 6 to her friend Theresa. She gave
3 to her friend Mandy. How many pencil crayons does Charlene have left?
16. Subtracting 3 Numbers to and over 100: Ashley bought a big bag of candy to share with her friends. In total,
there were 296 candies. She gave 105 candies to Marissa. She also gave 86 candies to Kayla. How many candies
were left?

Multiplication
17. Multiplying 1-Digit Integers: Adrianna needs to cut a pan of brownies into pieces. She cuts 6 even columns
and 3 even rows into the pan. How many brownies does she have?
18. Multiplying 2-Digit Integers: A movie theatre has 25 rows of seats with 20 seats in each row. How many seats
are there in total?
19. Multiplying Integers Ending with 0: A clothing company has 4 different kinds of sweatshirts. Each year, the
company makes 60,000 of each kind of sweatshirt. How many sweatshirts does the company make each year?
20. Multiplying 3 Integers: A bricklayer stacks bricks in 2 rows, with 10 bricks in each row. On top of each row,
there is a stack of 6 bricks. How many bricks are there in total?
21. Multiplying 4 Integers: Cayley earns $5 an hour by delivering newspapers. She delivers newspapers 3 days
each week, for 4 hours at a time. After delivering newspapers for 8 weeks, how much money will Cayley earn?

Division
22. Dividing 1-Digit Integers: If you have 4 pieces of candy split evenly into 2 bags, how many pieces of candy are
in each bag?
23. Dividing 2-Digit Integers: If you have 80 tickets for the fair and each ride costs 5 tickets, how many rides can
you go on?
24. Dividing Numbers Ending with 0: The school has $20,000 to buy new computer equipment. If each piece of
equipment costs $50, how many pieces can the school buy in total?
25. Dividing 3 Integers: Melissa buys 2 packs of tennis balls for $12 in total. All together, there are 6 tennis balls.
How much does 1 pack of tennis balls cost? How much does 1 tennis ball cost?
26. Interpreting Remainders: An Italian restaurant receives a shipment of 86 veal cutlets. If it takes 3 cutlets to
make a dish, how many cutlets will the restaurant have left over after making as many dishes as possible?

Mixed Operations

27. Mixing Addition and Subtraction: There are 235 books in a library. On Monday, 123 books are taken out. On
Tuesday, 56 books are brought back. How many books are there now?
28. Mixing Multiplication and Division: There is a group of 10 people who are ordering pizza. If each person gets
2 slices and each pizza has 4 slices, how many pizzas should they order?
29. Mixing Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction: Lana has 2 bags with 2 marbles in each bag. Markus has 2
bags with 3 marbles in each bag. How many more marbles does Markus have?
30. Mixing Division, Addition and Subtraction: Lana has 3 bags with the same amount of marbles in them,
totaling 12 marbles. Markus has 3 bags with the same amount of marbles in them, totaling 18 marbles. How many
more marbles does Markus have in each bag?

Ordering and Number Sense

31. Counting to Preview Multiplication: There are 2 chalkboards in your classroom. If each chalkboard needs 2
pieces of chalk, how many pieces do you need in total?
32. Counting to Preview Division: There are 3 chalkboards in your classroom. Each chalkboard has 2 pieces of
chalk. This means there are 6 pieces of chalk in total. If you take 1 piece of chalk away from each chalkboard, how
many will there be in total?

33. Composing Numbers: What number is 6 tens and 10 ones?

34. Guessing Numbers: I have a 7 in the tens place. I have an even number in the ones place. I am lower than 74.
What number am I?
35. Finding the Order: In the hockey game, Mitchell scored more points than William but fewer points than
Auston. Who scored the most points? Who scored the fewest points?

Fractions

36. Finding Fractions of a Group: Julia went to 10 houses on her street for Halloween. 5 of the houses gave her a
chocolate bar. What fraction of houses on Julia’s street gave her a chocolate bar?
37. Finding Unit Fractions: Heather is painting a portrait of her best friend, Lisa. To make it easier, she divides the
portrait into 6 equal parts. What fraction represents each part of the portrait?
38. Adding Fractions with Like Denominators: Noah walks ⅓ of a kilometre to school each day. He also walks ⅓
of a kilometre to get home after school. How many kilometres does he walk in total?
39. Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators: Last week, Whitney counted the number of juice boxes she
had for school lunches. She had ⅗ of a case. This week, it’s down to ⅕ of a case. How much of the case did Whitney
drink?
40. Adding Whole Numbers and Fractions with Like Denominators: At lunchtime, an ice cream parlor served 6
¼ scoops of chocolate ice cream, 5 ¾ scoops of vanilla and 2 ¾ scoops of strawberry. How many scoops of ice
cream did the parlor serve in total?
41. Subtracting Whole Numbers and Fractions with Like Denominators: For a party, Jaime had 5 ⅓ bottles of
cola for her friends to drink. She drank ⅓ of a bottle herself. Her friends drank 3 ⅓. How many bottles of cola does
Jaime have left?
42. Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators: Kevin completed ½ of an assignment at school. When he was
home that evening, he completed ⅚ of another assignment. How many assignments did Kevin complete?
43. Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators:Packing school lunches for her kids, Patty used ⅞ of a
package of ham. She also used ½ of a package of turkey. How much more ham than turkey did Patty use?
44. Multiplying Fractions: During gym class on Wednesday, the students ran for ¼ of a kilometre. On Thursday,
they ran ½ as many kilometres as on Wednesday. How many kilometres did the students run on Thursday? Write
your answer as a fraction.
45. Dividing Fractions: A clothing manufacturer uses ⅕ of a bottle of colour dye to make one pair of pants. The
manufacturer used ⅘ of a bottle yesterday. How many pairs of pants did the manufacturer make?
46. Multiplying Fractions with Whole Numbers: Mark drank ⅚ of a carton of milk this week. Frank drank 7
times more milk than Mark. How many cartons of milk did Frank drink? Write your answer as a fraction, or as a
whole or mixed number.

Decimals
47. Adding Decimals: You have 2.6 grams of yogurt in your bowl and you add another spoonful of 1.3 grams. How
much yogurt do you have in total?
48. Subtracting Decimals: Gemma had 25.75 grams of frosting to make a cake. She decided to use only 15.5 grams
of the frosting. How much frosting does Gemma have left?
49. Multiplying Decimals with Whole Numbers: Marshall walks a total of 0.9 kilometres to and from school each
day. After 4 days, how many kilometres will he have walked?
50. Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers: To make the Leaning Tower of Pisa from spaghetti, Mrs. Robinson
bought 2.5 kilograms of spaghetti. Her students were able to make 10 leaning towers in total. How many kilograms
of spaghetti does it take to make 1 leaning tower?