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Unit 6, Section C
All Kinds of Story Problems
Grade 1
Practice
Problem 1
Lin's shoe is 8 cubes long.
Her father's shoe is 17 cubes long.
How many cubes shorter is Lin's shoe than her father's shoe?
Show your thinking using drawings, numbers, words, or equations.
Problem 2
Priya's bracelet is 11 cubes long.
Han's bracelet is 3 cubes shorter than Priya's.
How long is Han’s bracelet?
Show your thinking using drawings, numbers, words, or equations.
Problem 3
Tyler has some beads on a bracelet.
He takes 6 beads off.
Now there are 7 beads on the bracelet.
How many beads were on Tyler's bracelet to start?
Show your thinking using drawings, numbers, words, or equations.
Problem 4
13 players are on the soccer field.
Some friends come to play.
Now there are 19 players on the field.
Circle the equation that represents the situation.
- \(13 + 19 = \boxed{\phantom{32}}\)
- \(13 + \boxed{\phantom{32}} = 19\)
- \(\boxed{\phantom{32}} - 13 = 19\)
Problem 5
Kiran and Clare made 13 origami swans.
Kiran made 5 of them.
How many swans did Clare make?
Show your thinking using drawings, numbers, words, or equations.
Problem 6
Exploration
Andre uses these cubes to represent a story problem.
What could Andre's story be?
Problem 7
Exploration
Write a story problem.
Trade stories with a partner.
Solve your partner's problem.
Then write 2 different equations that represent the situation.