Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division Word Problems PDF

# Addition Word Problems (Up to Three Digits) 1. Bonnie works on a big puzzle. She put 119 pieces together. There are 131 more pieces to put together. How many pieces are there in all? - a. 200 - b. **250** - c. 300 2. A pasta restaurant ordered 114 jars of tomato sauce, 7 jars of...

# Addition Word Problems (Up to Three Digits) 1. Bonnie works on a big puzzle. She put 119 pieces together. There are 131 more pieces to put together. How many pieces are there in all? - a. 200 - b. **250** - c. 300 2. A pasta restaurant ordered 114 jars of tomato sauce, 7 jars of mushroom sauce, and 49 jars of garlic sauce. How many jars of sauce did the restaurant order in all? - a. 180 - b. 130 - c. **170** - d. 120 3. Matt's family is going on vacation. They drove 650 miles today. They will drive 273 miles tomorrow. How many miles will they drive in all? - a. 822 - b. **923** - c. 377 4. Gary sold 187 pencils in the school store in the month of March. He sold 245 in the month of April. How many pencils did he sell in all? - a. 420 - b. **432** - c. 431 - d. 235 5. Joaquin had 187 markers. His friend Xavier gave him 101 markers for his birthday. How many markers does Joaquin have now? - a. 288 - b. 290 - c. 281 - d. 295 6. The aquarium sold tickets to the polar bear exhibit on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, the aquarium sold 584 tickets. On Sunday, the aquarium sold 296 tickets. How many total tickets did the aquarium sell on Saturday and Sunday? - a. 770 - b. **880** - c. 900 - d. 990 7. The students in Ms. Lopez's class had 327 bottle caps in their collection at the end of last week. This week, the students collected 64 more bottle caps. How many bottle caps do they have now? - **391** 8. A monkey weighs 67 kilograms. A zebra weighs 438 kilograms. What is the combined weight of the monkey and zebra? - **505** 9. Kramer removed 480 milliliters of water from his fish bowl. If he left 189 milliliters of water in the fish bowl, how much water did it have to begin with? - **669** 10. Last year, there were 420 students at Madison Elementary. This year, 190 more students enrolled. How many students attend Madison Elementary? - **610** # Subtraction Word Problems Within 1000 **Instructions:** Subtract. Show your work. 1. There are 540 milliliters of red paint. There are 730 milliliters of green paint. How many more milliliters of the green paint is there than red paint? - **190** 2. There were 294 students in the gym for the assembly. Then, 86 students left. How many students were left in the gym? - **208** 3. Ike wanted to run 1,000 laps around a track in three months. Ike has already run 438 laps. How many more laps does he have left to meet his goal? - **562** # Multiplication Word Problems (Within 100) 1. Tashanae bought 5 boxes of crayons from the store. If each box contains 8 crayons, how many crayons did she buy? - a. 3 - b. 1 - c. **40** - d. 13 2. Malcolm is a member of the track team. He runs 7 laps each practice. If the team practices 5 days per week, how many laps does Malcolm run in one week? - a. 12 laps - b. 35 laps - c. **42 laps** - d. 49 laps 3. Mrs. Gage has 18 decks to arrange in her classroom. Which arrangement can Mrs. Gage **NOT** use? - a. 2 rows of 9 - b. 3 rows of 6 - c. 6 rows of 3 - d. 4 rows of 4 4. Ellie looked at the fish in the pet store. She counted exactly 6 fish in each aquarium. There were 7 aquariums. What was the total number of fish in the aquariums? - a. 63 - b. 42 - c. 54 - d. 72 5. There are 4 small pizzas in each box. Mrs. Owens buys 8 boxes. How many pizzas does she have? - a. 4 - b. 12 - c. **24** - d. 32 6. Amy made 4 cups of hot chocolate. She put 4 small marshmallows in each cup. How many marshmallows did she use? - a. 20 - b. 16 - c. 12 - d. 8 7. Madison read 13 pages each day in her book. How many pages did she read in 4 days? - a. **52** - b. 42 - c. 17 - d. 3 8. If I buy one pineapple for $2.00 and every pineapple costs the same, how much will it cost to purchase 6 pineapples? Write an equation to solve this question. - $2.00 x 6 = $12.00 9. There is a tree with 4 branches. On each branch, there are 3 nests. In each nest, there are 5 eggs. How many eggs are there in all? - **60 eggs** 10. In art class there were 2 boxes of paints on each table. There were 3 tables. There were 8 paints in each box. How many paints were there in all? - **48 paints** # Multiplication Word Problems - Practice #1 **Instructions:** Solve each multiplication word problem. Show your work and label answers. 1. Martin has his games divided into 5 groups. He has 8 games in each group. How many games does he have in all? - **40 games** 2. There are 9 students in the music club. Each student has 4 instruments. How many instruments do the students in music club have in all? - **36 instruments** 3. Andrea sees 4 bicycles at school. Each of the bicycles has two wheels. How many wheels does she see in all? - **8 wheels** 4. Madison bought 8 bags of candy. Each bag had 8 pieces of candy. How many pieces of candy did Madison buy? - **64 pieces of candy** 5. Baseball cards come in packs of 10. Seth has 3 packs of baseball cards. How many baseball cards does he have altogether? - **30 baseball cards** 6. A theme park visor costs $6. Julie's family buys 5 visors. How much do they spend on visors? - **$30** # Division Word Problems - Practice #1 **Instructions:** Divide. Show your work and label answers. 1. There are 88 students eating lunch at tables in the cafeteria. There are 4 students seated at each table. How many tables are there? - **22 tables** 2. Jeff puts 25 quarters into 5 equal groups. How many quarters are in each group? - **5 quarters** 3. You put 18 people into 3 rows. How many people are in each row? - **6 people** 4. Jodi is bundling newspapers. She has 66 newspapers and puts 6 newspapers in each bundle. How many bundles does Jodi make? - **11 bundles** 5. Lexi has 45 stickers to give away. She wants to share them equally among her nine friends. How many stickers will each friend get? - **5 stickers** # Division Word Problems - Practice #2 **Instructions:** Divide. Show your work and label answers. 1. Mrs. Green has 64 crayons. She wants to give an equal number of crayons to each of 4 groups of students. How many crayons should each group get? - a. 11 - b. **12** - c. 16 - d. 18 2. A bay is 12 feet deep. A fathom is equal to 6 feet. How many fathoms deep is the bay? - a. 2 fathoms - b. 18 fathoms - c. 72 fathoms - d. 96 fathoms 3. Megan and Calla are having a playdate that will last for 3 hours. They want to play 3 different activities. If they play each activity for the same amount of time, how many hours will they have for each activity? - a. 3 - b. 9 - c. 1 - d. 6 4. Ty made 52 rolls. He put an equal amount in each of 4 baskets. How many rolls were in each basket? - a. 14 - b. 13 - c. 12 - d. 9 5. Ms. Williams is thinking of a two-digit number. The number is odd and divisible by 3. Which could be the number? - a. 29 - b. 42 - c. 103 - d. **27** # Division Word Problems Within 100 **Instructions:** Divide. Show your work and label answers. 1. A class of 12 students had to arrange themselves into 4 groups. How many students were in each group? - **3 students** 2. Every year the city of San Marcos holds a Cinco de Mayo festival. If 60 students perform in 5 groups at the festival, how many students are in each group? - **12 students** 3. Rocco is putting 14 drawings into 2 art binders. How many drawings are in each binder? - **7 drawings** 4. Alex has 56 chickens. There are 8 pens. If each pen has the same number of chickens, how many chickens are in each of the pens? - **7 chickens** 5. Kylie bought a bag of 30 beads to make bracelets. Each bracelet requires 5 beads. How many bracelets can Kylie make? - **6 bracelets** # Equal Parts 1. How many equal parts of the circle? - a. 1 - b. **2** - c. 3 - d. 4 2. How many equal parts of the triangle? - a. 1 - b. **2** - c. 3 - d. 4 3. How many equal parts of the square? - a. 1 - b. 2 - c. 3 - d. **4** 4. How many equal parts of the circle? - a. 2 - b. 4 - c. 6 - d. **8** 5. How many equal parts of the rectangle? - a. 1 - b. 2 - c. 3 - d. **4** 6. How many equal parts of the circle? - a. 2 - b. 4 - c. 6 - d. **8** 7. How many shaded and unshaded parts of the rectangle? - a. 1 shaded and 3 unshaded - b. 2 shaded and 2 unshaded - c. 3 shaded and 1 unshaded - d. **4 shaded and 0 unshaded** 8. How many shaded and unshaded parts of the circle? - a. 2 shaded and 4 unshaded - b. 4 shaded and 2 unshaded - c. 2 shaded and 6 unshaded - d. **6 shaded and 2 unshaded** 9. Which two shapes have the same number of equal parts? - **b. and d.** 10. Which two shapes have the same number of equal parts? - **a. and c.** # Equivalent Fractions 1. Circle the shapes with 1/2 shaded. - **The circle and the rectangle with one of the two squares shaded** 2. Circle the shapes with 3/4 shaded. - **The square with three out of the four squares shaded.** 3. Circle the shapes with 2/3 shaded. - **The rectangle with two squares shaded out of the three** 4. Circle the shapes with 1/4 shaded. - **The circle with one slice out of the four shaded** 5. What fraction of the circle is shaded? - a. 1/4 - b. 2/4 - c. 3/4 - d. **4/4** 6. About 1/3 of Earth's freshwater is groundwater. Which shaded model shows an equivalent fraction? - **c.** 7. Which sentence is best represented by the fraction model? - **c. Two-thirds of the students at Rivers Elementary School play sports after school.** # Fraction Models 1. What fraction of the area model is shaded? - a. 1/4 - b. **1/2** - c. 2/3 - d. 3/4 2. What fraction of the model is shaded? - a. 2/4 - b. 1/3 - c. 3/4 - d. **3/4** 3. What fraction of the model is shaded? - a. 3/5 - b. **5/8** - c. 3/8 - d. 3/5 4. What fraction of the area model is shaded? - a. **1/2** - b. 2/3 - c. 3/4 - d. 4/4 5. What fraction of the model is shaded? - a. 3/4 - b. 1/5 - c. 2/3 - d. **2/3** 6. What fraction of the model is shaded? - a. 2/2 - b. 1/1 - c. 1/2 - d. **1/2** 7. What fraction of the area model is shaded? - a. 1/3 - b. 3/5 - c. **1/4** - d. 1 8. What fraction of the area model is shaded? - a. 1/2 - b. **1/4** - c. 2/4 - d. 3/4 9. What fraction of the circle is shaded? - a. 1/3 - b. 1/4 - c. 1/6 - d. **1/8** 10. What fraction of the area model is shaded? - a. **1/3** - b. 1/5 - c. 2/4 - d. 2/3 # Fraction Practice: One-Half **Instructions:** Answer the questions about the fraction one-half. 1. How many equal parts of the circle? - a. 1 - b. **2** - c. 3 - d. 4 2. What type of equal parts does the picture show? - a. halves - b. thirds - c. **fourths** 3. Gavin and his brother want to split a pizza for dinner. Choose the fraction that represents one-half. - a. 1/4 - b. 2/3 - c. **1/2** - d. 3/4 4. How many people can be served a brownie if you cut it in half? - a. 3 - b. 4 - c. **2** 5. One-fourth is greater than one-half. - a. True - b. **False** 6. One-third is smaller than one-half. - a. **True** - b. False 7. Which number line shows more than one-half? - **b.** 8. One-half of the fraction model is shaded. - **a. True** - b. False 9. Each part of the circle equals what fraction of the area of the whole circle? - a. 1/2 - b. 1/3 - c. 1/4 - d. **1/6** 10. Which number line best shows one-half? - **c.** # Fraction Word Problems Practice 1. James ate 5/12 of the pie. Jo ate 2/12 of the pie. Who ate more? - a. Jo - b. **James** - c. They ate the same amount. 2. A pizza was cut into 8 slices. The family ate 4 slices. What fraction of the pizza is left? - a. 4/8 - b. 2/8 - c. 8/1 - d. **1/2** 3. Sterling uses 3/4 cup of nuts and 1/4 cup of raisins to make a snack. Which statement correctly compares the fractions? - a. 3/4 = 1/4 - b. 1/4 > 3/4 - c. **3/4 < 1/4** - d. 8/4 > 1/4 4. There were 6 birds on a wire. 4 flew away. What fraction of the birds flew away? - a. 6/4 - b. **4/6** - c. 2/3 - d. 1/2 5. What is the meaning of the denominator in the following example? - 1/3 of the grain in his field as shown in - the model: - **a. The field can be divided into 3 equal sections.** 6. There are 4 girls standing in line at the water fountain. Three of the girls are wearing blue dresses. What fraction of the girls in line are wearing blue dresses? - a. 1/4 - b. **3/4** - c. 3/5 - d. 4/3 7. Eight students share 5 yards of ribbon equally. What fraction of the ribbon does each student get? - a. 8/5 of a yard - b. 8/8 of a yard - c. 5/5 of a yard - d. **5/8 of a yard** 8. Cameron's class is learning about fractions. His teacher provides them with a fraction circle. He colors 3 parts green, 1 part red, and 2 parts blue. What fraction of Cameron's fraction circle is green? - a. 3/3 - b. **3/6** - c. 1/6 - d. 2/6 9. Leo made 3 cookies. He put sprinkles on 1 of the cookies. What fraction of the cookies had no sprinkles? - a. 3/3 - b. 1/3 - c. **2/3** - d. 1/4 10. What is the meaning of the numerator in the following example? - 3/4 of a pie, as shown in the model: - **b. The family ate 3 pieces.** # Graphing Fractions On Number Lines 1. Draw a point on the number line to show 1/2. 2. Draw a point on the number line to show 1/4. 3. Draw a point on the number line to show 1/6. 4. Draw a point on the number line to show 3/4. 5. Draw a point on the number line to show 6/8. 6. Draw a point on the number line to show 3/3. 7. Draw a point on the number line to show 5/6. 8. Draw a point on the number line to show 2/4. 9. Draw a point on the number line to show 3/6. 10. Draw a point on the number line to show 3/8. # Scaled Bar Graphs 1. How many more days did it rain in May than June? - a. 2 - b. 4 - c. 6 - d. **8** 2. How many more days did it rain in June than in April? - a. 2 - b. 6 - c. 8 - d. **10** 3. How many days fewer did it rain in June than May? - a. 2 - b. **4** - c. 6 - d. 8 4. How many days fewer did it rain in May than in April? - a. 1 - b. 2 - c. **8** - d. 10 5. During October it rained 3 more days than it rained in May. How many days did it rain in October? - a. 5 - b. 8 - c. 10 - d. **11** 6. During March it rained 4 days more than it rained in June. How many days did it rain in March? - a. 1 - b. 4 - c. **5** - d. 6 7. In July it rained 1 day fewer than it rained in May. How many days did it rain in July? - a. 6 - b. **7** - c. 8 - d. 9 8. It rained 5 fewer days in August than it rained in May. How many days did it rain in August? - a. **1** - b. 2 - c. 3 - d. 4 9. Which bar graph shows the data below? - April - 8 days of rain - May - 6 days of rain - June - 2 days of rain - **a.** 10. Which bar graph shows the data below? - April - 10 days of rain - May - 8 days of rain - June - 4 days of rain - **c.** # Dot Plot - a) How many students in Mrs. Freeman's class? **20 students** - b) How many students watched no movies last month? **1 student** - c) What was the greatest number of movies watched by? **9 movies** - d) How many students watched exactly 2 movies? **2 students** - e) How many students watched at least 5 movies? **8 students** - f) How many more students watched 6 movies than watched 4 movies? **2 more students** - g) How many students watched 10 movies? **1 student** - h) How many students watched less than 4 movies? **7 students** - 1) How many movies did the most students watch? **7 movies** - j) How many fewer students watched 4 movies than watched 9 movies? **4 fewer students**