This document provides examples of addition and subtraction word problems and their step-by-step solutions. It contains 10 practice problems involving quantities like football games attended, pencils in a drawer, seashells collected, baseball cards owned, and orange balloons. It also provides 4 multi-step word problems involving oranges, students at a school, weight of sugar in a bag, and chocolate bars bought and distributed. The document aims to help students practice solving addition and subtraction word problems.

1. Problem Solving in Words
Addition and Subtraction

2. Let’s practice!

3. Joan's high school played 637 football games
this year. She attended 577 games. How many
football games did Joan miss ?

4. Answer : 60 games

5. There are 102 pencils in the drawer. Benny
placed 133 more pencils in the drawer. How
many pencils are now there in all ?

6. Answer :235 pencils

7. Dan found 636 seashells on the beach. he
gave Melanie 526 of the seashells. How
many seashells does he now have ?

8. Answer:110 seashells

9. Fred has 906 baseball cards. Joan bought
416 of Fred's baseball cards. How many
baseball cards does Fred have now ?

10. Answer: 490 baseball cards

11. Sara has 666 orange balloons, she
gave Nancy 434 of the balloons.
How many orange balloons does
she now have ?

12. Answer: 232 orange balloons

13. Solve the problems
a) There are 215 oranges in the first
basket and 251 oranges in the second
basket. How many oranges are there
altogether?
Answer: There are 466 oranges altogether.

14. b.) In a school, there are 735 boys
and 217 girls. Find the total number
of students in the school.

15. c.) A bag weighs 300 grams. Rachel
put 672 grams of sugar in it. What is
the weight of the bag of sugar? If she
gives away 276 grams of sugar, how
much does the bag of sugar weigh
now?

16. d.)John bought 617 chocolates
bars on his birthday. He gave 129
chocolate bars to his friends ad he
ate 20 chocolate bars. How many
chocolate bars are left with him
now?