Word problems asking how many more

Difficulty Stretch · Set 6s910a

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1
One class read 152 books this term and another read 14. How many more did the first class read?
2
One class read 347 books this term and another read 206. How many more did the first class read?
3
One class read 381 books this term and another read 120. How many more did the first class read?
4
One class read 257 books this term and another read 104. How many more did the first class read?
5
One class read 158 books this term and another read 19. How many more did the first class read?
6
One class read 252 books this term and another read 51. How many more did the first class read?
7
One class read 83 books this term and another read 10. How many more did the first class read?
8
One class read 39 books this term and another read 16. How many more did the first class read?
9
One class read 19 books this term and another read 17. How many more did the first class read?
10
One class read 283 books this term and another read 26. How many more did the first class read?
11
One class read 98 books this term and another read 4. How many more did the first class read?
12
One class read 232 books this term and another read 94. How many more did the first class read?
13
One class read 145 books this term and another read 31. How many more did the first class read?
14
One class read 31 books this term and another read 5. How many more did the first class read?
15
One class read 261 books this term and another read 43. How many more did the first class read?
16
One class read 276 books this term and another read 116. How many more did the first class read?
17
One class read 301 books this term and another read 30. How many more did the first class read?
18
One class read 101 books this term and another read 70. How many more did the first class read?
19
One class read 179 books this term and another read 101. How many more did the first class read?
20
One class read 167 books this term and another read 31. How many more did the first class read?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 398.
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 238 different ones, 99% — 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.