Mathematics Tutoring: Word Problems: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475165050)

There are many people who don't like to do word problems. However, they are extremely important to be able to solve. The hardest thing about word problems is to understand them. Once that's done, it's just a matter of setting up the problem and solving it. This Mathematics Tutoring: Word Problems - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division edition provides tips and tricks to aid in solving whole number word problems, in addition to 100 different addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division practice problems to solve. An answer key section is also provided to check answers. Sample problems from the book: There are 65 children in three second grade classrooms, and there are 87 children in four first grade classrooms at Smithfield Elementary School. How many more children are in first grade than second grade? There are 1,320 seconds in 22 minutes. There are 3,600 seconds in 60 minutes, or one hour. What is the difference in seconds between 60 minutes and 22 minutes? During a recent Girl Scout Cookie sale, the following number of boxes of cookies sold were as follows: Thin Mints - 485 boxes, Caramel deLites - 506 boxes, Shortbread - 396 boxes, Peanut Butter Sandwich - 411 boxes, Peanut Butter Patties - 436 boxes, and Lemonades - 368 boxes. How many total boxes of Girl Scout cookies were sold? A truckload of 697 apples need to be bagged. There will be nine apples placed into each bag. How many bags of apples will there be? Will there be any left over? If so, how many? A library has 348 shelves to place books. If each shelf can hold a maximum of 60 books, what is the most number of books that the library can have? A township fair had a crowd of 3,316 people; 1,026 adults and 2,290 kids. If the admission was $3 for adults and $2 for kids, how much admission money did the township fair make?

Author: Mark J. Curry
ISBN-10: 1475165056
ISBN-13: 9781475165050
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2012
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d