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Addition Word Problems

Word Problems

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What this worksheet covers

Grade: Grade 3 (Elementary School)
Topic: Column Addition
Worksheet: Addition Word Problems

Word problems make up the whole of this lesson. Two kinds of scene have to be told apart and turned into expressions: Combining two quantities into one, and Increasing, where an amount joins what was there at the start. The numbers stay at the three digits of 3-Digit Addition, and the weight falls on the reading.

In an Increasing scene, the amount that came in gets written as the answer with the starting figure never added. A sum has to come out larger than either number in the expression, so an answer matching one of the two means the other was left out.

Column Addition closes here. The routine of writing with the places lined up was made firm as far as 4-Digit Addition, and the next unit puts the same layout to work in the other direction.

Combining3 questions
Increasing3 questions

Questions & answers

Problems and answers on this worksheet

These are the problems in “Column Addition”, shown with their answers.

(1)Noah has 291 Japanese stamps and 346 foreign stamps. How many stamps does he have in all? Answer □
Answer: 637stamps
(2)On a shelf at the store, there are 312 strawberry candies and 259 melon candies. How many candies are there in all? Answer □
Answer: 571candies
(3)This morning at the farm, 194 white eggs and 328 brown eggs were collected. How many eggs were collected in all? Answer □
Answer: 522eggs
(4)There are 248 fish in Chloe's pond. If 376 more are added, how many will there be in total? Answer □
Answer: 624fish
(5)There are 456 birds in the yard of Grace's school. If 267 more are added, how many will there be in total? Answer □
Answer: 723birds
(6)Noah has 523 stamps. If he gets 198 more from his teacher, how many will there be in total? Answer □
Answer: 721stamps

What to do next

3-Digit Addition3-Digit Addition Column Calculation (No Carrying)

Next unit: Column Subtraction

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