Six short problems written as sentences rather than sums, over the topics a middle-school year covers — a rate, a percentage, an average, an equation to set up — with space under each to work.
1.Noah gets into a lift on floor −3 and rides up 13 floors. Which floor does Noah get out on?
2.Priya uses 4 cups of flour to make 8 muffins. How many cups are needed for 16 muffins?
3.Maya had some cards. After giving 6 away, there are 16 left. How many were there to start with?
4.There were 16 members in the school choir and the number grew by 50%. How many members are there now?
5.Kira's times were 26, 35, 11 and 40 seconds. What is the range of the times?
6.Maya reads 171 pages in 9 days. At that rate, how many pages will Maya read in 7 days?
Word problems
NameDate/ 6
Read each problem and write the answer.
1.Noah gets into a lift on floor −3 and rides up 13 floors. Which floor does Noah get out on?10
2.Priya uses 4 cups of flour to make 8 muffins. How many cups are needed for 16 muffins?8
3.Maya had some cards. After giving 6 away, there are 16 left. How many were there to start with?22
4.There were 16 members in the school choir and the number grew by 50%. How many members are there now?24
5.Kira's times were 26, 35, 11 and 40 seconds. What is the range of the times?29
6.Maya reads 171 pages in 9 days. At that rate, how many pages will Maya read in 7 days?133
What is on this sheet
The hard part of a word problem is never the arithmetic; it is deciding which arithmetic. So there is room under each one to write the sum out before doing it, and the answer key gives the number rather than the method, because the method is the bit worth talking about at the table.
There are few enough templates here that they stay readable and are not padded out with more. A generated word problem that reads as machinery is worse than no word problem at all — a parent stops trusting the rest of the shop over it — which is why this is the one family in the Print Shop deliberately kept small.
The answers were worked out when the problems were, so the key is the same page with the answers drawn in rather than a second attempt at the same questions — there is no way for the two to disagree. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from: it is printed so that the identical sheet can be had again next week, rather than one that merely looks like it.
Change what is on it
This page is one sheet out of a family that can print thousands, and the settings behind it — how many problems, how big the numbers get, how they are laid out, whether there is room to work — are all switches. The builder link at the top of the page carries this sheet’s own settings, so the bench opens on exactly the sheet here rather than on a blank one.
The configuration travels in the address bar rather than on a server, so the link can be bookmarked or sent to somebody as it stands — and what they open is this sheet, down to the seed, rather than another one like it.
The same facts, on screen
Not in the games. Once the sum is written down, it is a fact — and facts are what The Grid is for.
