Word Problem of the
Day
2nd Grade
This should begin in January and
continue throughout the rest of the
academic year.
Day 1
Melanie has 7 marbles. Diego has 12
marbles. How many marbles do
Melanie and Diego have in all?
Day 2
• Yuri has 35 buttons. Ann gives him a
bag with 30 more buttons. How many
buttons does Yuri have now?
Day 3
• Zoey and Kevin collect coins. Zoey
has 40 more coins than Kevin has.
Kevin has 38 coins. How many coins
does Zoey have?
Day 4
• Chelsea has some stamps. Liam has
63 stamps. Chelsea and Liam have 83
stamps in all. How many stamps does
Chelsea have?
Day 5
• Austin had 12 blue blocks and 3 red
blocks. His dad game him some more
blocks. Now Austin has 45 blocks.
How many blocks did Austin’s dad
give him?
Day 6
• Maya has 27 puzzle pieces. Jason has
50 more puzzle pieces than Maya.
How many puzzle pieces does Jason
have?
Day 7
• Larry had some toys. He got 20 more
toys. Now he has 54 toys in all. How
many toys did Larry have to start?
Day 8
• Pam plays the organ for 45 minutes.
She has lunch and plays for 30 more
minutes. How long does she play the
organ?
Day 9
• Mr. Matt collected 39 seashells. Lona
collected some seashells too. In all,
they collected 89 seashells. How
many seashells did Lona collect?
Day 10
Danette had 24 model cars and 8 model
trucks. Her uncle gives her 20 more
model cars and trucks. How many
model cars and trucks in all does
Danette have now?
Day 11
• Jack had 22 stamps. He bought 30
more stamps. Then his friend gave
him 6 stamps. How many stamps does
Jack have in all?
Day 12
There are 19 smiley stickers. Of these,
8 are blue. The rest are yellow. How
many stickers are yellow?
Day 13
Marvin has 20 nuts. He ate 5 of them.
How many nuts were left?
Day 14
• Hanna had 70 pennies. She used some
pennies to buy some gum. Then she
had 30 pennies left. How many
pennies did Hanna use?
Day 15
• Some walnuts were on the table.
Zelma ate 10 walnuts. Then 24
walnuts were left. How many walnuts
were on the table to start?
Day 16
• Jan has 20 fewer games than Mr.
Darden. Mr. Darden has 50 games.
How many games does Jan have?
Day 17
• Lorraine had 18 storybooks and 3
animal books. Then she gave away
some books. Now she has 19 books in
all. How many books did she give
away?
Day 20
• Kelly had 72 marbles. She sold 30 of
her marbles. Then her friend Bertha
gave her 6 marbles. How many
marbles does Kelly have in all?
Day 21
• Amy had some stickers. Her brother
gave her 5 more stickers. Now Amy
has 18 stickers. How many stickers
did Amy start with?
Day 22
• Chris has some baseball cards. His
friend gave him 28 more baseball
cards. Now Chris has 95 baseball
cards. How many baseball cards did
Chris start with?
Day 23
Some players are on the basketball
court. 14 players left. Then there
were 16 players on the baseball
court. How many players were on the
basketball court before?
Day 24
• Linda has 13 more comic books than
her friend Evan. Linda has 30 comic
books. How many comic books does
Evan have?
Day 25
• Candace has 23 more shiny rocks
than her friend Nichole. Candace has
27 shiny rocks. How many shiny rocks
does Nichole have?
Day 26
• Carol has 5 fewer books than Cindy.
Carol has 7 books. How many books
does Cindy have?
Day 27
• There are 36 fewer apples in the box
than apples on the ground. There are
50 apples in the box. How many
apples are on the ground?
Day 28
• Bret has 26 butterflies for the
Science Fair. Cindy brought 38 more
butterflies for the Science Fair. How
many butterflies did they take to the
science fair?
Day 29
• Patty’s class saw 76 butterflies in
the garden. Some of the butterflies
flew away. Now there are 49
butterflies in the garden. How many
butterflies flew away?
Day 30
Brittney had 38 balloons. Some popped.
Then Brittney had 19 balloons. How
many balloons popped?
Day 31
Lindsey has 32 glass marbles and 21
steel marbles. How many marbles
does Lindsey have?
Day 32
• Debra has cats, dogs, and fish for
pets. She has 15 pets. She has 10
goldfish and 2 cats. How many dogs
does Debra have?
Day 33
Natalie has 45 sparkle markers.
Shannon has 28 sparkle markers. How
many more sparkle markers does
Natalie have than Shannon?
Day 44
• Lynne has 19 bottle caps. Ernest has
71 bottle caps. How many fewer caps
does Lynne have than Ernest?
Day 45
• There were 46 hula hoops on the
playground. 20 were red and 15 were
yellow. The rest were blue. How many
were blue?
Day 46
• 30 children lined up to jump rope. 9
children joined them. 4 children left
to get a drink of water. How many
children were left in line?
Day 47
• Dad caught 22 fish this morning. He
threw 5 back because they were too
small. He caught 12 more in the
afternoon. How many fish did Dad
have then?
Day 48
• Charlie ate 48 fried worms. His
sister only ate 32 fried worms. How
many worms were they able to eat
together?
Day 49
• Lance has 37 Hot Wheels. His friend
gave him 29 more Hot Wheels. How
many does he have now?
Day 50
• Alex read 71 pages of his new book
on Saturday. There were a total of
99 pages in the whole book. How
many pages were left to read?
Day 51
• You got a box of oranges with 97
oranges in it. You gave 60 oranges to
your friend and your family at 15
oranges. How many oranges are left?
Day 52
• At the park I saw 32 animals. I saw
12 dogs, 15 squirrels, and some
frogs. How many frogs did I see?
Day 53
• A teacher brought 87 slimy snails to
school. She gave some of them to her
students and had 24 left. How many
slimy snails did she give her
students?
Day 54
• Brown school had 41 cupcakes and 58
cookies at their bake sale. How many
cupcakes and cookies did they have
to sell altogether?
Day 55
• Shay bought a bag of jellybeans. She
ate 27 of them. How many jellybeans
does she have left?
Day 56
• The ice cream store had 25 ice
cream bars in the freezer. There
were 29 ice cream bars delivered on
Monday and 20 ice cream bars
delivered on Wednesday. How many
ice cream bars do they have now?
Day 57
• I spent 25 cents on gum, 9 cents on a
pencil, and 50 cents on a drink. How
much money did I spend in all?
Day 58
• An alien landed on Earth and brought
60 booglies with him. While he was
here he gave 26 of the Booglies to
his new Earth friends. How many
Booglies did he have left to take
back to his planet?
Day 59
• The circus had 84 balloons to give to
kids. Some of them got blown away.
There are now 52 balloons left for
the children. How many blew away?
Day 60
• Yesterday Emma got 75 beads from
her mother. Today she made a
bracelet with 25 beads, and a
necklace with 30 beads. How many
beads does Emma have left?
Day 61
• Juan has 22 red and 22 blue marbles.
Jaquavious has 19 marbles. How many
more marbles does Juan have than
Jaquavious?
Day 62
• John’s mom made 59 bug brownies
for the school bake sale. Carols’ dad
made 38 cricket cookies for the bake
sale. How many bug goodies did they
bake in all?
Day 63
• Dallis has a pink jump rope and a blue
jump rope. The pink one is 12 feet
long and the blue one is 24 feet long.
How long are the jump ropes
together?
Day 64
• The total length of 2 ribbons are 36
feet. The first ribbon is 24 feet.
What is the length of the second
piece?
Day 65
• A ladder is 8 ft tall. A step ladder is
3 ft shorter. How tall is the step
ladder?
Day 66
• 86 boys and 123 girls are going to a
movie. How many more girls than boys
were going to the movie?
Day 67
• Liza has a red ribbon that is 100
centimeters long. She cuts 36 off of
her ribbon. Then she joins a blue
ribbon, 75 centimeters, to what is
left of the red. What is the total
length of the ribbon now?
Day 68
• A white sheep is 57 inches tall. The
white sheep is 8 inches taller than
the brown sheep. The brown sheep is
taller than the black sheep by 2
inches. How tall is the black sheep?
Day 69
• TJ has a piece of sparkly wrapping
paper that is 400 inches long. He
uses 139 inches to wrap a vacuum
cleaner for a present. Then he gives
65 inches of the paper to Kim. How
long is the piece of wrapping paper he
has left?
Day 70
• Alondra buys a game for $39 and a
necklace for $9. She has $50. How
much change will she get back?
Day 71
• The Lester family has $600. They
spent $110 on food and $97 on bills.
How much money do they have left?
Day 72
• An eraser costs 19 cents and a pencil
costs 34 cents. Gina buys 2 erasers
and a pencil. How much money did she
spend?
Day 73
• Jodie’s blue curtain was 24 inches
long. She added 18 inches of pink
material to the bottom. Then what
was the total length of the curtain?
Day 74
• Brad had a board that was 96
centimeters long. He cut off a piece
that was 18 centimeters long. He
used the part that was left as a
shelf. How long was the shelf?
Day 75
• Marni taped two paper strips
together end to end. The orange
strip measured 17 centimeters. The
blue strip measured 24 centimeters.
What was the total length of the
long strip?
Day 76
• LaToya had two pieces of cloth. One
piece was 37 inches long. The other
was 26 inches long. Latoya joined the
pieces to form a banner. What was
the total length of the banner?
Day 77
• A bush was 42 inches long. Adam cut
8 inches off one end. How many
inches long was the bush then?
Day 78
• Devina has a dotted ribbon that is 47
centimeters long. She has a striped
ribbon that is 58 centimeters long.
How much longer is the striped
ribbon than the dotted ribbon?
Day 79
• Carlos was 36 inches tall when he
started school. Now, in second grade,
he is 45 inches tall. How many inches
did Carlos grow since he started
school?
Day 80
A tree grew 13 inches last year. It
grew 17 inches this year. How many
inches did the tree grow over the
two years?
Day 81
• Jonah collected race cars. He had 17
blue cars, 14 red cars, and 29 green
cars. How many cars did Jonah have
in his collection?
Day 82
Marissa had a pencil box full of pencils.
She gave Julie 23 pencils. That left
Marissa with 44 pencils. How many
pencils did Marissa start with?
Day 83
• George bought a cake for $14, some
candles for $3, and a present for
$10. He went to pay for them and
gave the man 50 dollars. How much
change did George get back?
Day 84
• Mary had 33 hotdogs for the cook
out. Jamal brought 12 more. After
the cookout was over, they counted
their hotdogs and they had 4 left.
How many hotdogs were eaten at the
cookout?
Day 85
• There were 36 monkeys at the zoo.
They brought 22 more monkeys over
from Canada to the zoo. How many
monkeys are now at the zoo?
Day 86
• LaGrange High School has 12 math
teachers. Callaway High School has 9
math teachers. Troup High School
has 14 math teachers. How many
more math teachers does Lagrange
have than Callaway?
Day 87
• Chick Fil A gave away 72 sandwiches
at lunch time. Jim Bobs gave away 33.
How many fewer sandwiches did Jim
Bobs give away than Chick Fil A?
Day 88
• There are 36 fewer apples in the box
than apples on the ground. There are
50 apples in the box. How many
apples are on the ground?