Word problems asking how many more

Difficulty Standard · Set hk5lrs

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1
One class read 45 books this term and another read 22. How many more did the first class read?
2
One class read 61 books this term and another read 27. How many more did the first class read?
3
One class read 41 books this term and another read 17. How many more did the first class read?
4
One class read 17 books this term and another read 3. How many more did the first class read?
5
One class read 101 books this term and another read 43. How many more did the first class read?
6
One class read 15 books this term and another read 6. How many more did the first class read?
7
One class read 84 books this term and another read 80. How many more did the first class read?
8
One class read 94 books this term and another read 14. How many more did the first class read?
9
One class read 83 books this term and another read 81. How many more did the first class read?
10
One class read 24 books this term and another read 10. How many more did the first class read?
11
One class read 91 books this term and another read 45. How many more did the first class read?
12
One class read 60 books this term and another read 52. How many more did the first class read?
13
One class read 105 books this term and another read 91. How many more did the first class read?
14
One class read 37 books this term and another read 27. How many more did the first class read?
15
One class read 102 books this term and another read 99. How many more did the first class read?
16
One class read 16 books this term and another read 8. How many more did the first class read?
17
One class read 107 books this term and another read 14. How many more did the first class read?
18
One class read 52 books this term and another read 13. How many more did the first class read?
19
One class read 32 books this term and another read 3. How many more did the first class read?
20
One class read 96 books this term and another read 41. How many more did the first class read?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 120.
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 two totals were added; "how many more" asks for the gap between them.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 233 different ones, 97% — 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 3 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.