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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)At a fruit shop, there are 163 bananas at the front of the shop and 478 bananas in the back. How many bananas are there in all? Answer □
Answer: 641bananas
(2)In the flower bed at the park, 263 yellow sunflowers and 479 orange sunflowers are blooming. How many sunflowers are blooming in all? Answer □
Answer: 742sunflowers
(3)At school, there are 348 birds in the schoolyard and 276 birds in the back garden. How many birds are there in all? Answer □
Answer: 624birds
(4)There are 287 apples at the fruit shop. If 345 more are added from a delivery, how many will there be in total? Answer □
Answer: 632apples
(5)There are 264 candies at Hannah's house. If 358 more are bought at the store and the number increases, how many will there be? Answer □
Answer: 622candies
(6)There are 463 sunflowers blooming in the flower bed at the park. If 158 more bloom, how many will there be in total? Answer □
Answer: 621sunflowers

What to do next

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

Next unit: Column Subtraction

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