Word problems asking how many more

Difficulty Starter · Set 58b7lw

Fill in what you can and press Check. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

1
One class read 26 books this term and another read 8. How many more did the first class read?
2
One class read 20 books this term and another read 17. How many more did the first class read?
3
One class read 25 books this term and another read 12. How many more did the first class read?
4
One class read 21 books this term and another read 6. How many more did the first class read?
5
One class read 16 books this term and another read 10. How many more did the first class read?
6
One class read 39 books this term and another read 7. How many more did the first class read?
7
One class read 19 books this term and another read 2. How many more did the first class read?
8
One class read 37 books this term and another read 14. How many more did the first class read?
9
One class read 24 books this term and another read 6. How many more did the first class read?
10
One class read 21 books this term and another read 4. How many more did the first class read?
11
One class read 37 books this term and another read 26. How many more did the first class read?
12
One class read 27 books this term and another read 19. How many more did the first class read?
13
One class read 14 books this term and another read 9. How many more did the first class read?
14
One class read 22 books this term and another read 19. How many more did the first class read?
15
One class read 32 books this term and another read 17. How many more did the first class read?
16
One class read 32 books this term and another read 25. How many more did the first class read?
17
One class read 39 books this term and another read 35. How many more did the first class read?
18
One class read 33 books this term and another read 11. How many more did the first class read?
19
One class read 19 books this term and another read 13. How many more did the first class read?
20
One class read 32 books this term and another read 17. How many more did the first class read?

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 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 192 different ones, 80% — 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.