Math Word Problems Vocabulary

Karmen ate 8,392 cookies. Kenya ate 10,029 cookies. What is the difference between the amount of cookies that Karmen and Kenya ate?

What word tells us what to do?

• amount

• ate

• difference

• between

Demario and D'John buy a small bag of popcorn and a pretzel at the movie theater. The popcorn weighs 44 grams and the pretzel weighs 63 grams more than the popcorn.

What is the key word and what does it tell you to do?

• weighs

  +

• more

  -

• more

  +

• weighs

  +

A restaurant made 872 muffins. The sold 203 muffins. How many muffins are leftover?

What word tells us what to do and what does it mean?

• how many

  ADD

• sold

  SUBTRACT

• leftover

  ADD

• leftover

  SUBTRACT

3,201 plus 491

What should we do?

• -

• ÷

• ×

• +

Jamirrea's dog weighs 4829 kg. Jamya's dog weighs 20,193 kg. What is the combined weights of their dogs?

What is the key word and what does it tell us to do?

• combined

  +

• dogs

  -

• weighs

  +

• combined

  -

Gerald bought 34,102 shoes at the store. Damarius bought 2,030 less shoes than Gerald. How many shoes did Damarius buy?

What does the key word tell you to do?

• multiply

• divide

• subtract

• add

De'Kyla ate 92,758 hot fries yesterday. Kelise ate 238,143 hot fries today. How many hot fries did they eat in total?

What is the key word and what does it tell you to do?

• total

  ADD

• eat

  ADD

• total

  SUBTRACT

• eat

  SUBTRACT

It takes Jawan 23,019 minutes to mow his front lawn. It takes him 10,293 fewer minutes to mow his back lawn. How long does it take Jawan to mow his back lawn?

What does the key word tell us to do?

• add

• multiply

• divide

• subtract

9,291 minus 219

What should we do?

• ×

• -

• +

• ÷

There are 482 fifth graders at Gompers. There are 910 fourth graders. What is the sum of fourth and fifth graders at Gompers?

What is the key word and what does it tell us to do?

• are

  SUBTRACT

• sum

  ADD

• sum

  SUBTRACT

• what

  ADD