Word problems: one-step addition

Difficulty Starter · Set ap77fq

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1
A shelf holds 38 books and another holds 9. How many books are there altogether?
2
A shelf holds 31 books and another holds 9. How many books are there altogether?
3
A shelf holds 35 books and another holds 8. How many books are there altogether?
4
A shelf holds 39 books and another holds 7. How many books are there altogether?
5
A shelf holds 25 books and another holds 9. How many books are there altogether?
6
A shelf holds 22 books and another holds 7. How many books are there altogether?
7
A shelf holds 39 books and another holds 4. How many books are there altogether?
8
A shelf holds 37 books and another holds 2. How many books are there altogether?
9
A shelf holds 20 books and another holds 5. How many books are there altogether?
10
A shelf holds 21 books and another holds 4. How many books are there altogether?
11
A shelf holds 15 books and another holds 3. How many books are there altogether?
12
A shelf holds 27 books and another holds 2. How many books are there altogether?
13
A shelf holds 36 books and another holds 7. How many books are there altogether?
14
A shelf holds 31 books and another holds 5. How many books are there altogether?
15
A shelf holds 32 books and another holds 5. How many books are there altogether?
16
A shelf holds 17 books and another holds 10. How many books are there altogether?
17
A shelf holds 14 books and another holds 9. How many books are there altogether?
18
A shelf holds 39 books and another holds 9. How many books are there altogether?
19
A shelf holds 29 books and another holds 4. How many books are there altogether?
20
A shelf holds 27 books and another holds 3. How many books are there altogether?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 40.
Every problem in it will take one step.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the numbers were taken away from one another; "altogether" asks for the two amounts joined.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 157 different ones, 65% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 2 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.

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Numbers 2–40; every one will take one step.

Word problems with something left over

Numbers 3–59; every one will leave something over that the answer does not count.

All of word problems

22 skills in this topic, 66 sets between them.

Printing it

The printed sheet carries no menus and no advertising, and the answer key is on its own page.