Wendy reads 201 pages of a book on Saturday.

She reads 239

pages of the book on Sunday. How many pages does Wendy
read in the two days?
Bill bought a couch worth £755 and an armchair worth £174.
How much did he spend altogether?
A clothing store sold 682 dresses and 860 jackets in the first
week of December. How many items were sold altogether?
Ronald has 346 baseball cards. Nick has 282 baseball cards.
How many baseball cards do Ronald and Nick have in all?
A charity drive received 458 plush toys and 197 toy cars from a
group of students. How many toys did the students donate in all?
A pretzel store in the mall sold 525 cinnamon pretzels and 913
salt pretzels. What was the total number of pretzels sold?
At Texmart, there are 889 employees working in the first shift. If
the second shift has 970 employees at work, how many
employees work in the two shifts?
Henry collected 244 pine cones, and his brother gathered 298
pine cones. How many pine cones did they collect in all?
Melanie arranges 340 bottles of nail color on the wall-mounted
rack. If she keeps 164 more bottles on the rack, how many
bottles of nail color are there in all?
Carla put 253 photos from her childhood and 123 photos from
her adolescence into an album. How many photos were in the
album?
Fiona, who runs an online store, uses 567 white pearls and 311
black pearls to make necklaces. How many pearls does she use
altogether?
There are 842 red maple trees and 795 pine trees in a garden.
How many trees are there in all?
Yvonne sells 965 necklaces and 547 bracelets. How many pieces
of jewelry does she sell altogether?
A cell phone store in the mall sold 308 car mounts and 856
phone cases. What was the total number of accessories sold?
Victor bought a watch worth £235 and a pair of shoes worth
£491. How much did he spend altogether?
Stacy has 124 rare coins. Her brother has 212 coins in his
collection. How many coins do they have in all?
An arboretum has 510 trees in the oak collection and 378 trees
in the magnolia collection. What is the total number of trees in
the two types?
769 out of the total workers at a food-manufacturing company
are men, and 681 of them are women. How many people are
employed by the company?
Word problem Tricks
Addition Subtraction
• Add • Subtract
• Sum
• Total
• Remain / Left
• All together • Difference
• Plus
• Less than
• In all
• How many • Fewer
• How much • How many more
• More than
• Combined
• Minus / take away
• Increased by • How much more
Word problem Tricks
Multiplication Division
• Multiply • Divide
• Product
• Quotient
• Times
• Twice
• Goes into
• Total • Split equally
• Of • Each
• Increased by
• per
• Factor of
• Double / triple
22 is added to a number and the sum is 30.
What number did I begin with?
 I subtract 14 from a number and
end up with 17. What number did I start with?
 I add 16 to a number and the total of
the two numbers is 30.
What number did I begin with?
 When 26 is subtracted from a number,
the difference is 14.
What is the number?
After adding 22 to a number the total is 45. What is the
number?
What number must you subtract
from 19 to find a difference of 7?
 I start with 29 and take away a
number. The difference is 14. What number did I subtract?
35 is added to a number and the total is 60. What is the
number?
 I increase a number by 14 and
the total is 30. What number did
I start with?
After taking 17 away from a number I am left with 3. What
number did I start with?
Paul starts with 50p but spends some money in a
shop. He goes home with 18p. How much did
Paul spend?
Sue starts out with 23¢ but is given some money by her
aunt. Sue then has 50¢. How much was she given?
Alice gives 20¢ to charity. If she started with 95¢,
how much has she have left?
Jane has a 32-ounce bottle of orange soda. She drinks
12 ounces. How many ounces does she have left?
A box contains 60 pins and then some are added so that
the new total is 85. How many pins have been added?
A tower is made up of 30 blocks. 45 more are put on the
top. How many blocks are in the tower now?
Gary had 73 dollars. He spent 55 dollars on a pet snake. How
many dollars did Gary have left?
Paul received a box of 479 crayons for his birthday. At the end
of the school year, he only had 134 left. How many crayons had
been lost or given away?
179 birds were sitting in a tree. 38 more birds flew up to the
tree. How many birds were there altogether on the tree?
Cindy’s mom baked 1,215 cookies. Paul’s dad baked 1,112
cookies. They both brought them to school for a party. How
many cookies did they have altogether?
Beth has 106 crayons. She gives 54 of them away to Jen. How
many crayons does Beth have left?
231 birds were sitting in a tree. Some more fly up to the tree.
Then there were 312 birds in the tree. How many more birds fly
up to the tree?
64 children were riding on the bus. At the bus stop, some more
children got on the bus. Then there were 78 children altogether
on the bus. How many children got on the bus at the bus stop?
Thanksgiving is coming and Dr. Mary wants to celebrate it by
sharing her good fortune with different charities.

1. She first went to Oldtown where she donated $700 in total

to three different nursing homes. If she gave $245 to the
first home and $225 to the second, how much did she give
to the third home?

2. She then went to three orphanages and donated a total of

$650.00. If she gave $175.00 to the first orphanage and
$250.00 to the third, how much did she donate to the
second orphanage?

3. Next, she donated $900 to pet shelters which take care of

over 500 cats and dogs. If she gave $325 to the first pet
shelter and $260.00 to the second pet shelter, how much
did she give to the last pet shelter?
Thanksgiving is coming and Dr. Mary wants to celebrate it by
sharing her good fortune with different charities.

4. Being a nature lover, she also gave some money to three

forest reserves. If she donated $570 to Treetown National
Park and The Forest Reserve which is $140 more than what
she gave to Animal Preservation Park, how much did she
donate to all three parks?

5. Lastly, she donated to four different soup kitchens in her

town. She gave $300 to the first soup kitchen, $238 to the
second, and $100 to the third and fourth soup kitchens.
How much did she donate in total?
Katie loves to travel. On her birthday, she decided to go on a
trip to a mysterious continent.

1. Her first destination was in an island of statues which is 436

miles from her home. She took a plane that made two
stopovers, the 1st stopover after covering 132 miles and the
2nd stopover after another 236 miles. How much farther is
the island from the 2nd stopover?

2. Katie spent a total $350 on her whole stay on the island. If

she spent $125 on food and $135 on hotel rooms, how
much did she spend on buying other stuff?

3. Next, she went to a region full of mountains. There she saw

532 species of insects, reptiles, and birds. If she saw 253
insect species and 143 bird species, how many reptile
species did she see?
Katie loves to travel. On her birthday, she decided to go on a
trip to a mysterious continent.

4. After the mountain region, she went to a famous beach.

There, she collected 166 yellow seashells, 76 red shells and
49 green shells. How many shells did she collect?

5. Before she went home, she bought t-shirts, key chains, and
handmade bracelets as souvenirs. She spent $347.00 on key
chains and bracelets which is $146.00 more than she spent
on tshirts. How much money did she spend on all the
souvenirs?
Kevin and his family just moved to a new neighborhood, so
they are holding a party for their new neighbors.

1. For the party, they prepared a few snacks for everyone. If

his sister prepared 25 mini cupcakes and his mother
prepared 30, how many did his grandmother prepare if they
have a total of 100 cupcakes?

2. They also prepared some chips. If he prepared 350 grams of

chips and his father prepared 268 grams, how much chips
should his brother prepare if they are to have 800 grams of
chips?

3. Since pizza is a favorite in Kevin’s family, they also bought

some. His sister bought 48 slices of pizza and his brother
bought 48 as well. One of the neighbors brought 27 slices.
How many slices were there altogether?
Kevin and his family just moved to a new neighborhood, so
they are holding a party for their new neighbors.

4. Their neighbors, wanting to welcome them, also brought in

some food. If one neighbor brought 75 hotdogs and
another neighbor brought 25 less hotdogs than the first
one, how many hotdogs were brought by the neighbors in
total?

5. After the party, Kevin estimated that the total money they
spent on food, drinks, and utensils for the 25 guests sums
up to $560. If they spent $268 on food and $118 on
utensils, how much did they spend on drinks?
There are two kinds of soil to choose from. If brand A is $50 for
5 kg and brand B is $48 per 4 kg, which brand is cheaper?
There are two pine trees at the front entrance. The tall one is
16 feet and the short one is 7 feet shorter than the tall one.
Dave has a ladder that is 14 feet tall. Compared to the shorter
pine tree, how much taller is his ladder?
Each pack of pumpkin seeds costs $8 and each pack of
tomatoes seeds costs $5. What is the total cost for 3 packs of
tomato seeds and 4 packs of pumpkin seeds?
He planted 5 flower beds with roses and tulips. If there are 5
roses and 9 tulips in each flower bed, how many more tulips
are there?
Dave spent 2 hours working in the yard everyday. If he worked
for 24 hours in total, how many days did he work in the yard?
Write the number sentence that fits this: “Dave spent $24 to
buy new tools, $13 to buy seeds and $30 for a new garden
hose. He spent a total of $67 at the store.”
Emma was having a party at her house with her friends.

1. She invited 5 friends and each friend brought 2 other

friends. How many guests were there?

2. Assume each car carried 3 guests. Together with Emma's

car, how many cars were parked outside her house?

3. Emma placed 25 paper cups and 17 paper plates on the

kitchen table. How many more cups were there than the
number of guests?

4. She took out 8 packs of chips and put the chips in some
bowls for her guests. If each pack of chip can fill up 2 bowls,
how many packs of chips were left after she filled up 12
bowls?

5. Emma ordered three pizzas which costs $9 each and she

gave a $4 tip to the delivery person. How much change did
she get back if she gives the delivery person 2 twenty-dollar
bills?
Kieran needs to run 2500 metres. In the first ten minutes he runs
639 metres and in the second ten minutes he runs 794 metres.
How much further does he still need to run?
Chocolate bar: £1.39
Pack of marshmallows: £2.47
Packet of sweets: £1.76
Special Offer: Any three items for £4.10
How much money will Len save by buying one of each
item using the special offer?
Yuan and Chan are trying to find out how many star jumps they can do in two minutes.
In the first minute, Yuan completes 48 star jumps and
in the second minute, he completes 56 star jumps.
Chan completes 184 star jumps in two minutes.
What is the difference between the amount of star jumps completed by Yuan and Chan?
Mrs Flood has 1938 pencils at the beginning of the school year.
In term one, 348 pencils are used and in term two, 827 pencils
are used.
How many pencils are left remaining to use in term three?
Fish: £3.55
Chips: £1.29
Gravy: £0.75
Peas: £0.90
Nigel has £5. He wants to buy fish, chips and peas. How much
more money will Nigel need?
A bottle holds two litres of freshly squeezed orange juice.
Denver fills three glasses with orange juice. He puts 170
millilitres in each glass.
How much orange juice is left in the bottle?
Woolly hat: £11.75
Gloves: £4.95
Aydin has a
twenty-pound and
a ten-pound note.
How much change
will he receive if
he buys two woolly
hats and a pair of
gloves?
Miley and James each have some money. Altogether, they have
£3.20. Miley gives James 20p so that they both have the same
amount.
How much money did they each have at the start?
Class A has a race. Kat’s time is 47 seconds. Charlie finishes nine
seconds before Kat. Maria finishes 14 seconds after Charlie.
Birkir finishes 26 seconds before Maria. What is Birkir’s time in
seconds?
Cookies: £0.75 each Buns: £0.90 each
Serji bought some cookies and buns. He spent £4.20. How
many of each item did he buy?
Phoebe bought a ruler and a pencil. She paid £1.45. Leoh
bought a ruler and two pencils. She paid £1.80.
How much does a ruler cost?
Toy car: £12.49
Board game: £25.38
Building blocks £34.39
Amil and Rikard want to
buy one of each toy. Amil
rounds the price of each
toy to the nearest £10 and
adds them together. Rikard
adds the exact price of
each toy together. What is
the difference between
Amil’s and Rikard’s total?
Woolly hat: £11.75
Gloves: £4.95
Aydin has a
twenty-pound and
a ten-pound note.
How much change
will he receive if
he buys two woolly
hats and a pair of
gloves?
Miley and James each have some money. Altogether, they have
£3.20. Miley gives James 20p so that they both have the same
amount.
How much money did they each have at the start?
Class A have a race. Kat’s time is 47 seconds. Charlie finishes
nine seconds before Kat. Maria finishes 14 seconds after Charlie.
Birkir finishes 26 seconds before Maria.
What is Birkir’s time in seconds?
Cookies: £0.75 each Buns: £0.90 each
Serji bought some cookies and buns. He spent £4.20. How
many of each item did he buy?
Phoebe bought a ruler and a pencil. She paid £1.45. Leoh
bought a ruler and two pencils. She paid £1.80.
How much does a ruler cost?
Misha has 34 dollars. She needs 47 dollars to buy a dog. How
many more dollars does she have to earn?
Elisa has 37 dollars. How many more does she have to earn to
have 53 dollars?
James had 39 stickers. He received some more stickers for his
birthday. Then he had 61 stickers. How many stickers did James
receive for his birthday?
There were 51 geese in the farmer’s field. 28 of the geese flew
away. How many geese were left in the field?
The elephant had 407 peanuts. She ate 129 of them. How many
peanuts did the elephant have left?
There were 27 boys and 35 girls on the playground at recess.
How many children were on the playground at recess?
There were 58 geese and 37 ducks in the marsh. How many
birds were there?
Paul had 28 strawberries in his basket. He picked 35 more
strawberries. How many strawberries did he have then?
Unit conversion
Distance
Millimeter (mm)

Centimeter (cm) = 10 mm

Meter (m) = 100 cm = 1,000 mm

Kilometer (km) = 1,000 m = 100,000 cm = 1,000,000 mm

Liquid
Milliliter (ml)

Liters (l) = 1000 ml

Weight
grams (g)

Kilogram (kg) = 1000 g

Time
Second (sec)

Minutes (min) = 60 sec

Hours (hr) = 60 min = 3600 sec

Eggs are packed in boxes of 6. How many boxes are needed to
pack 54 eggs?
Apples cost 15 pence each. How much would 8 apples cost?
How many whole apples would twenty-four quarter apples
make
James has 36 sweets. He gives ¼ of them to his brother. How
many sweets does he have left?
It takes Rajiv 45 minutes to travel to school. What time does he
have to leave in the morning to arrive at school at ten minutes
to nine?
Sam drives 46 kilometres to work. David drives half the
distance. How much further does Sam have to drive to work
than David?
It takes me ten minutes to paint a picture. How many pictures
could I paint in one hour and twenty minutes?
Sarah is six years younger than her sister, Elizabeth. Sarah is 15
years old. How old is Elizabeth?
The Jones family go to the cinema. The film starts at 5.40. If the
film lasts 1 hour 40 minutes, when does it end?
47 boys are going on a trip to the zoo by minibus. If each
minibus can carry 12 children, how many minibuses will be
needed?
Convert the following:

a) How many centimetres (cm) are there in 1½ metres?

b) How many metres (m) are there in 2¼ kilometres?

c) How many grams (g) are there in 5 kilograms?

During a 1 hour television programme there are two breaks of 3
minutes 30 seconds. How long was the actual programme?
Four different numbers, all in the 4 times-table, are put into
order, with the smallest number first and the largest number
last. The first number is 44. The last number is 56. What are the
other two numbers?