Math Drills
Order and Position Word Problems Review
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What this worksheet covers
Positions counted from the front and from the back are the clues for finding a place or a number of people. After Switching Front and Back and Position in Line come the people in between, found for Same Direction and Opposite Direction, and then the size of the line as a whole.
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When someone is fifth from the front and third from the back, taking the whole line as 5 + 3 = 8 and counting that person twice is the classic error. An answer one larger than the true count identifies it. With the people in between, the opposite happens, as 1 is subtracted once too often and the count that excludes both ends is used by mistake.
The ability to count what place someone holds from the front or the back, settled by Order and Position, is broadened here to finding the number of people in between or in the whole line. This way of counting carries straight through into Tree-Planting Problems in grade 3, which finds the number of gaps between trees or people lined up.
- Finding the Position · Switching Front and Back1 question
- Finding the Position · Position in Line1 question
- Finding the Number of People in Between · Same Direction1 question
- Finding the Number of People in Between · Opposite Direction1 question
- Finding the Total · From Front and Back1 question
- Finding the Total · From the Line and the End1 question
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Problems and answers on this worksheet
These are the problems in “Order and Position Word Problems”, shown with their answers.
(1)17 children are standing in a line. Harrison is 8th from the back. What place is Harrison from the front? Answer □
Answer: 10th
(2)Jack is 5th from the front. Emma is 7 places behind Jack. What place from the front is Emma? Answer □
Answer: 12th
(3)Children are standing in a line. Harrison is 7th from the front, and Taylor is 17th from the front. How many people are between the 2 of them? Answer □
Answer: 9people
(4)22 children are standing in a line. Liam is 7th from the front, and Grace is 4th from the back. How many people are between the 2? Answer □
Answer: 11people
(5)Children are standing in a line. Kenneth is 5th from the front and 15th from the back. How many children are there in all? Answer □
Answer: 19people
(6)Children are standing in a line. Kenneth is 5th from the front. Sophia is 8 places behind Kenneth and is the very last. How many children are lined up in all? Answer □
Answer: 13people
