Red and orange WALT: solve word problems using 2 steps.
1. On a school trip 272 people visit a museum. There are 223 children and 16 teachers, the
rest are parents. How many parents are there?
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2. In a week Gemma saves £5.75, on Monday he has £2.55 on Wednesday his mum gives him
75p. How much does he save the rest of the week?
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At a recent clean up of the playground. The 3 children collected 196 pieces of rubbish.
Callum collects 64 pieces, Louise 73, so how many has Bonnie collected?
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3. The teachers have 234 biscuits in the staff room. Miss Jordan eats 51, Miss Keddie
eats 75, how many biscuits do the rest of the teachers eat?
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4. Daniel has 523 comics he lends 246 to Cookie and 156 to James, how many does he
have left?
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Humara has £2.55. She buys a bag of crisps for 52p and a can of coke for 76p. How
much change does she get?
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WALT: solve 2 step word problems. Yellow / Bluue
Willy Wonka had 325 oompa loompas
I buy a twix for 56p and a mars
working in his factory. Around
bar for 49p. How much change
Christmas time it was getting busy so
will I get if I pay with a £2 coin? he employed an additional 134 oompa
loompas. However, in January he had to
let 78 of them go. How many oompa
loompas now work in the factory?
A chocolate factory usually produce
550 caramel bars on a Saturday but on
a Sunday they make 125 fewer bars.
How many bars are produced at the
weekend in total?
Sam is saving up to buy his mum some
chocolates for her birthday. He has
£3.45 in his piggy bank and his dad
gave him £2.39. The chocolates cost
£8.50. How much more does Sam need
to save?
Cadbury decide to launch a competition
to win 350 i pads. During the first
week, there were 78 winners and
during the second week 53 people won.
How many i pads are left to win during
the rest of the competition?
Jamie buys a twirl for 38p and a
double decker for 47p and has
£3.75 left. How much money did
he have to begin with?
WALT: solve word problems
I have 32 Moshi Monsters. My
Samantha has 35 DVDs in her
sister has 75. How many Moshi
collection. Tara has 85 more.
Monsters do we have all
How many DVDs does Tara have?
together?
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A TV costs £470. In the sale,
A farm has 52 sheep, 35 cows
the price is reduced by £150.
and 15 pigs. How many animals
What is the new price of the
are there in total?
TV?
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What is the sum of 154 and 237?
In a long jump competition,
George jumped 235 cm. The
winner jumped 278 cm. How much
further was the winning jump?
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