Story Problems: Add To and Take From

Solve and write an equation with a ? for the unknown.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 34

Story problems are math in real life! Read carefully: what happens in the story?
Maya has 34 stickers. Maya gets 25 more. How many now? Maya gets more, so we add. The ? stands for what we don't know.
34 plus 25 is 59. Maya has 59 stickers now!
Leo has 62 marbles and gives some away. Now Leo has 40. How many were given away? We know the whole and one part.
Count up from 40 to 62: that's 22. Leo gave away 22 marbles.
Sometimes we don't know the start! Ava had some books, got 15 more, and now has 41. 41 minus 15 is 26. Ava had 26 at first.

Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:

2.NR.2.3 — Solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers using part-whole strategies.