1. Worded Problems Term 1, 2015
Created by Angela Pusz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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?

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

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

15. 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?

16. 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?

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

18. 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?

19. 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?

20. 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?

21. 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?

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

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

24. 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?

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

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

27. 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?

28. 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?

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

30. 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?