Worded Problems Term 1, 2015 Created by Angela Pusz

Week 1 Mrs Pusz ate 32 chocolates on Monday and 25 on Tuesday. How many chocolates did Mrs Pusz eat?

Week 1 Miss Pusz baked 18 chocolate cookies. She burnt 7 of them. How many cookies were left?

Week 2 There were 24 fish in the school’s fish tank. They bought 11 more. How many fish are now in the tank?

Week 2 Mrs Callinan had 26 balloons. 12 blew away. How many balloons does she have left?

Week 2 How many different ways can you make 20c?

Week 3 A squirrel collected 5 acorns a day for a whole week. How many acorns did he collect?

Week 3 Mrs Murphy’s plant was 13 blocks tall on Monday and 27 blocks tall on Friday. How many blocks did it grow?

In my pocket I have 75c. What coins might I have? Week 3 In my pocket I have 75c. What coins might I have?

Week 4 A tree had 32 leaves and 6 blew off. How many leaves were left?

Week 4 Mrs O’Toole has 14 pots. She wants to put 2 plants in each pot. How many plants does she need?

Week 4 You have a hundreds chart and jigsaw pieces. One of the pieces is shaped like this: If the shape covers the number 43, what other numbers might it be covering?

Week 5 Miss Cope bought 18 lollies and gave away 7 of them. How many did she have left?

Week 5 Tommy Turkey eats 4 strawberries each day for 5 days. How many strawberries does Tommy Turkey eat?

Week 5 You have a hundreds chart and jigsaw pieces. One of the pieces is shaped like this: If the shape covers the number 24, what other numbers might it be covering?

Mr Morton found 10 cents a day for 9 days. How much money did he find? Week 6 Mr Morton found 10 cents a day for 9 days. How much money did he find?

Week 6 There were 4 trees in the garden. Each had 5 leaves on the tree. How many leaves were there in total?

Week 6 Miss Pusz has chocolates and bowls. She put the chocolates in groups of 5 in each bowl. Miss Pusz has 2 bowls and 2 chocolates left over. How many chocolates does Miss Pusz have?

Week 7 Mr Graham is having a BBQ. There will be 19 people there. Each person will eat 2 sausages. How many sausages will he need?

Week 7 Mrs Parsons is making a bracelet with red and yellow beads. She uses 7 beads. 4 of the beads are red, how many are yellow?

Week 7 Mrs Pusz has lots of flowers. She has her flowers in groups of 10 in pots. Mrs Pusz has 3 pots of flowers and 4 extra flowers. How many flowers does she have?

Week 8 James is in the forest and sees 6 monsters. Each monster has 3 eyes. How many eyes can James see?

Week 8 Jill has 18 green and red blocks. 12 are green blocks. How many are red?

Week 8 Jan, Kate and Sam have lots of shells. They put groups of 10 shells in a bucket. Kate has 2 buckets and 3 shells left over. Sam has 1 more bucket than Kate but no shells left over. Jan has 4 more shells than Kate. How many shells does each have?

Week 9 Mrs Topic cooked 3 pies. If it took 6 apples to make each pie, how many apples did she need?

Week 9 David had 43 stickers. He used 21 of them. How many stickers does David have left?

Week 9 Emma and her friends each have crayons. Emma has 6 red and 4 blue crayons. Kim has 2 fewer crayons than Emma. Blake has 3 fewer crayons than Kim. How many crayons does each person have?

Week 10 Mrs Cowling has 2 paintbrushes and 10 cups. How many more paintbrushes does she need if she wants each cup to have a brush?

Week 10 There were 3 rows in the lettuce patch with 4 lettuces in each row. How many lettuces were there?

Week 10 Damien and his friends have lots of marbles. Harper has 7 green and 5 blue marbles. Aiden has 3 fewer marbles than Harper. Nathan has 2 less marbles than Aiden. How many marbles does each person have?