Word Problem of the Day 3rd
Grade
Begin in January
Day 1
Jack has 5 bags. There are 6 shells in
each bag. How many shells does
Jack have in all?
Day 2
Jane had 60 inches of string. She cut
the string into 6 equal pieces. How
long is each piece of string?
Day 3
Mr. Benito has 50 markers. He puts 5
markers into each bag. Then he gives
two bags of markers to Mr. George.
How many bags of markers does Mr.
Benito have left?
Day 4
Andrew paid $3 for each of 5 books.
David paid $5 for each of 2 books.
Who paid more for his books?
Day 5
The total mass of 5 new crayons is 50
grams. What is the mass of each
crayon?
Day 6
Ethan has 138 United States stamps
and 91 stamps from other countries.
How many stamps does Ethan have
in all?
Day 7
There are 112 boys and 93 girls who
attend Spring Road Elementary
School. About how many students
attend this school in all?
Day 8
Rory has 132 baseball cards in his
collection. His grandfather gives him
175 more cards. About how many
cards does he now have in his
collection?
Day 9
In June, 394 people visited the Science
Museum. In July, 426 people visited
the Science Museum. How many
people visited the Science Museum
in June and July?
Day 10
Chen put a new tile floor in his
kitchen. There are 9 rows of tiles with
7 tiles in each row. How many tiles
did Chen use?
Day 11
Rosa made 56 cupcakes. She put 8
cupcakes into each box and sold the
boxes for $3 each. How much money
did Rosa receive?
Day 12
There are 10 slices in each loaf of
bread. Nancy bought 4 loaves of
bread. She used 2 slices to make a
sandwich. How many slices of bread
are left?
Day 13
On Saturday, 304 people visited the
zoo. On Sunday, 488 people visited
the zoo. Estimate to find the total
number of people who visited the
zoo?
Day 14
Tamika has a stamp album. There are 8
stamps on each of 8 pages. How
many stamps are there in all?
Day 15
The mass of a large box of cereal is
750 grams. The mass of a small box
of cereal is 435 grams. How much
greater is the mass of the large box
of cereal than the mass of the small
box of cereal?
Day 16
The supermarket manager arranged
40 cans of soup into equal rows with
5 cans in each row. How many rows
of soup cans are there?
Day 17
James wants to buy a soccer ball
worth $95 and a bike worth $349. If
he only has $375 how much more
money does he need?
Day 18
Chris had 42 marbles. He gave two
friends each 10. How many marbles
does Chris have now?
Day 19
Maria had three sets of 13 yellow
cards. How many cards does she
have in all?
Day 20
On Monday Lia read 4 times as many
pages of her book as Jess. Lia read
100 pages. How many more pages
did Lia read than Jess?
Day 21
Hudson has 2 full reels of fishing line.
He has a total of 20 yards of line.
There are 3 feet in a yard. How many
feet of fishing line are on each reel?
Day 22
Brad has 7 packs of 5 basketball cards
and 3 extra cards. How many cards
does Brad have in all?
Day 23
Lauren has saved $293 to buy a
computer. If the computer costs
$615, about how much more does
Lauren need to buy the computer?
Day 24
Mrs. Lopez shared 10 grapes equally
between her 2 children. Then she
gave each child 2 more grapes. How
many grapes did each child have?
Day 25
Jacob started reading at 4:30. He
stopped reading at 4:49. For how
many minutes did he read?
Day 26
Lisa has 5 rows of flowers. There are 25
flowers total. How many flowers
were in each row?
Day 27
Tanya had 147 flower stickers and 119
animal stickers. She bought 16 more
animal stickers. How many flower
and animal stickers did Tanya have
then?
Day 28
Marie runs 11 miles in three days. She
runs 3 miles on each of the first two
days. How many miles does she run
on the third day?
Day 29
Sam has 15 apples. He places an equal
number of apples on each plate. He
has 3 plates. How many apples does
he put on each plate?
Day 30
Tim is digging holes to plant seeds.
Tim has 32 seeds. He puts 4 seeds in
each hole. How many holes does he
dig?
Day 31
Tomas has a dozen eggs. He uses
some eggs to make breakfast. After
breakfast, he has 9 eggs left. How
many eggs did he use?
Day 32
Jane is making 2 peach pies. She puts
8 peaches in each pie. How many
peaches does she need?
Day 33
Jenna is planting a garden. She has 15
plants. She arranges the plants into
equal rows with 5 plants in each row.
How many rows of plants will there
be in Jenna’s garden?
Day 34
Carla has 4 rows of rose bushes in her
garden. Each row has 6 bushes. If
she plants one more row of 6
bushes, how many rose bushes will
she have?
Day 35
Brad bought a computer for $453 and
a printer for $96. Maria bought a
television for $399 and a DVD player
for $148. How much more did Brad
spend than Maria?
Day 36
A cow weighs 519 pounds. Her calf
weighs 296 pounds. How much more
does the cow weight than the calf?
Day 37
Phillip baked 36 cookies. Caden ate 2
cookies. Riley ate 4 cookies. How
many cookies does Phillip have left?
Day 38
Anna had 3 boxes with 6 muffins in
each box. Anna and her friends at 4
of the muffins. How many muffins
are left?
Day 39
There are 3 apple tarts and twice as
many peach tarts. How many tarts
are there in all?
Day 40
A grocery store sells yogurt cups in
packs of 5. The store sold 9 packs
yesterday. How many yogurt cups
did they sell yesterday?
Day 41
A moving man packed three boxes of
six items and six boxes of 3 items.
How many items did the moving
man pack in all?
Day 42
The area of the rectangular rug is 20
square feet. The width is 4 feet. What
is the perimeter of the rug?
Day 43
Ana read 9 pages of a book. Robert
read twice as many pages. How
many pages did they read in all?
Day 44
Stephan has a rectangular fence
running along the perimeter of his
yard. The length of the fence is 20
meters long. The yard area is 300
square meters. What is the width of
the fence?
Day 45
Mary and 3 friends shared 32 crayons
equally. How many crayons did each
person get?
Day 46
Rahid needs 8 pieces of wood that are
each 30 inches long. How many
inches of wood does Rahid need
altogether?
Day 47
Carols has 72 stickers. He wants to put
the same number of stickers on each
of the 9 pages in his sticker album.
How many stickers will Carlos put on
each page?
Day 48
Tina started biking to the library at the
11:04. She arrived at the library at
11:11. How long was Tina’s bike
ride to the library?
Day 49
Kim bought 3 pens. Each pen costs 30
cents. How much did Kim spend on
all of the pens?
Day 50
Sara picks 17 string beans. Paula picks
16 string beans. They each give 4
string beans to Tim. What is the total
number of string beans that Sara
and Paula have left?
Day 51
Pilar had two puzzles. The horse
puzzle has 432 pieces. The lion
puzzle has 350 pieces. How many
more pieces does the horse puzzle
have than the lion puzzle?
Day 52
Kamal bought a calculator for $17 and
a cell phone for $68. About how
much did Kamal spend?
Day 53
Lily bakes 8 muffins. She bakes 4 more.
She gives 3 muffins to her friends.
How many does she have now?
Day 54
Addie has 8 plates. Jose has twice as
many plates as Addie. How many
plates does Jose have? How many
more plates does Jose have than
Addie? How many plates in all?
Day 55
A poster is 27 inches long and 21
inches wide. What is the perimeter of
the poster?
Day 56
The farmers market had 115 green
apples and 83 red apples. On
Monday they sold 72 apples. How
many apples did the farmers market
have left?
Day 57
On Monday Tom’s Bakery had 90
chocolate muffins for sale. 25
chocolate muffins were sold in the
morning and 46 in the afternoon.
How many chocolate muffins were
left?
Day 58
In a third grade class there are 9 boys.
There are twice as many girls as
boys. How many students are in the
class in all?
Day 59
Lisa sold 4 times as many raffle tickets
as Tyrell. Lisa sold 32 tickets. How
many more raffle tickets did Lisa sell
than Tyrell?
Day 60
I have 99 cents. I buy six pencils for
nine cents each. How much money
do I have left?
Day 61
Mrs. Brown baked bread this morning.
She put the bread in the oven at
8:12. the bread baked for 30
minutes. At what time did Mrs.
Brown take the bread out of the
oven?
Day 62
Tom has a box of 30 chocolates. He
eats 6 of them and places the rest of
them into three bags for his sisters.
How many are in each bag?
Day 63
A kitchen sink holds 12 liters of water.
A child’s wading pool holds 30
liters of water. How many more liters
of water does the wading pool hold
than the sink?
Day 64
There are 157 girls and 201 boys in 3rd
grade. Out of these, 244 students
have brown eyes. How many 3rd
grade students do not have brown
eyes?
Day 65
Dad has 400 books to pack into boxes.
On Monday he packs 222 books and
on Tuesday he packs 148 books and
on Tuesday he packs 148 books.
How many more books does dad
need to pack into boxes?
Day 66
Lucy had 18 apples. She gave 6 to Eric
and some to Sue. She has 5 apples
left. How many apples did she give
to Sue?
Day 67
Judy read two books. The first book
had 488 pages. The second book
had 103 fewer pages than the first
book. How many pages did Judy
read in all?
Day 66
A school has 146 green tennis balls
and 152 yellow ones. 250 tennis balls
are stored in the gymnasium and the
rest are in the yard. How many
tennis balls are in the yard?
Day 67
Finbar has 67 craft sticks. Lindsay has
45 sticks. They will use 52 sticks to
build a model. How many more
sticks does Finbar have?
Day 68
After spending $55 on a shirt and
$124 on a pair of shoes Tom had $40
left in his wallet. How much money
did Tom have to begin with?
Day 69
A truck driver needed to deliver 750
sacks of flour. He delivered 235 sacks
to a shop of Smith Street and 367
sacks to a shop on Bent Avenue.
How many more sacks did he need
to deliver?
Day 70
The rug in Spencer’s room is in the
shape of a rectangle. The rug has a
perimeter of 10 meters. The rug is 3
meters long. How wide is the rug?
Day 71
Sasha’s team played 16 games. The
team won 9 and tied 2. How many
did they lose?
Day 72
Kareem received 112 e-mails in
January. He received 39 fewer emails in February than he received in
January. How many e-mails did
Kareem receive in January and
February combined?
Day 73
Peter had 55 marbles. He gave 16
marbles to his brother and 19 to his
best friend. How many marbles did
Peter have left?
Day 74
Last week, Mr. Chan drove 129 miles
and Mr. Hunter drove 146 miles.
How many more miles did Mr.
Hunter drive than Mr. Chan?
Day 75
Irene’s swimming lesson started at
5:10. The lesson ended at 5:45. How
long was Irene’s swimming lesson?
Day 76
Jose used 45 square tiles to cover a
piece of drawing paper. The length
of each side of tile is 1 inch. What is
the area of the paper?
Day 77
Joseph has 6 stickers. Rachel has 3
times as many stickers are Joseph.
How many stickers does Rachel
have?
Day 78
Ashley is making punch. She uses 1
liter of apple juice, 2 liters of
cranberry juice, and 4 liters of oj.
How many liters of punch does
Ashley make?
Day 79
George bought a coat for $136 and a
hat for $29. How much more did the
coat cost than the hat?
Day 80
Eva has 183 beads. She uses 37 beads
to make a necklace. About how
many beads does she have left over?
Day 81
A rectangular rug is 3 meters long and
2 meters wide. What is the area of
the rug?
Day 82
A cell phone has a mass of 200 grams.
A calculator has a mass of 153
grams. How much less is the mass of
the calculator than the mass of a cell
phone?
Day 83
Dave started washing dishes at 8:15.
He finished at 8:35. For how long
was Dave washing dishes?
Day 84
A bag of mixed nuts costs $6. That is 3
times as much as a bag of peanuts
costs. How much does a bag of
peanuts cost?
Day 85
A total of 45 students have signed up
for summer camp. They have been
divided into 5 equal groups. How
many students are in each group?