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Grade 2 Math · Level 4, Arithmetic within 100

One-Step Word Problems

Turn a real-world story into the correct addition or subtraction operation and solve it.

Questions like

  • Mia had 37 stickers and got 28 more. How many now?

How the lesson starts: One-Step Word Problems

  1. Zoo day!

    Hooray, it's zoo day! Our class is visiting the animals. Every animal has a math story. Let's be story detectives. Should we add, or subtract?

  2. Join or leave?

    12 penguins stand on a rock. 5 more waddle over. More are joining, so add: 12 + 5 = 17. 15 parrots sit in a tree. 6 fly away. Some are leaving, so subtract: 15 − 6 = 9.

  3. Parts of a group

    There are 14 monkeys. 8 are big. The rest are small. How many are small? We know the whole and one part. Whole minus part: 14 − 8 = 6. 6 are small!