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The farmer picked Andy, the squirrel,
47 orange pumpkins found 42 acorns in
and 39 white the morning and
pumpkins. some more acorns in
How many pumpkins the afternoon. Andy
did he pick found 91 acorns in all.
altogether? How many did he find
in the afternoon?
1 2
The farmer planted David baked some
57 rows of corn and pumpkin cookies for
38 rows of beans. the fall carnival. Kaley
How many more baked 36 pumpkin
rows of corn did he cookies. They baked
plant? 84 cookies in all. How
many did David bake?
3 4
The 2nd graders
The kids counted 29
painted 55 pumpkins
red leaves at recess
for their fall party.
and 35 yellow leaves.
The 3rd graders
How many did they
painted 20 less than
count in all?
the 2nd grade. How
many pumpkins were
painted total?
5 6
Andy, the squirrel,
Creepy the Spider
climbed in 37 trees on
ate 28 bugs for
his fall break. His
lunch and 34 bugs
friend, Buck, climbed
for dinner. How
in 14 more trees than
many bugs did he eat
Andy. How many trees
altogether?
did Buck climb in?
7 8
Kaley counted 56
Erin used 74 pieces
carved pumpkins when
of candy corn to
she went trick or
decorate her
treating. Hector
cookies. Nathan used
counted 17 less than
49 pieces of candy
Kaley did when he went
corn to decorate his
trick or treating.
cookies. How many
How many pumpkins
more pieces did Erin
did Hector count?
use?
9 10
Barry, the bat, flew The Green Headed
with 45 other bats on Monster scared 31 kids
Friday night and 82 at the costume party.
other bats on Then, he scared some
Saturday night. How more kids walking home
from the party. If he
many fewer bats did
scared a total of 66
he fly with on Friday
kids, how many did he
than Saturday? scare walking home?
11 12
At the apple orchard, Jake and Tammy made
Olivia picked 37 28 candy apples to sell
apples and Carlos in the snack booth at
picked 52 apples. the fair. They made
How many more some more caramel
apples. Altogether,
apples did Carlos
they made 66 apples.
pick?
How many were
caramel?
13 14
Tommy, the turkey, Ollie Owl saw 27 more
ate 18 ears of corn in birds than squirrels in
the field. His friend, his tree. There were 16
Trevor, ate 22 ears squirrels in his tree.
of corn. How many How many animals were
there in all?
total ears of corn did
the turkeys eat?
15 16
Rascal Raccoon went Rory Raccoon went to
hiking with his friends. visit her friend Rascal.
They crawled under She brought him 18
34 logs and 29 fences. pieces of gum and 33
How many logs and pieces of chocolate.
Rascal already had 15
fences did they crawl
pieces of candy. How
under altogether?
many did he have now?
17 18
There were 61 crows Andy, the squirrel, hid
in the corn field. The 93 nuts for winter. He
scarecrow scared 39 lost 55 of the nuts and
of the crows. How could not remember
many crows were where they were. Then,
his friend Sandy, gave
left?
him 42 of her nuts. How
many nuts did Andy
have now?
19 20
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Answer Key 2. 49
3. 19
4. 48
5. 64
6. 90
7. 62
8. 51
9. 25
10. 39
11. 37
12. 35
13. 15
14. 38
15. 40
16. 59
17. 63
18. 66
19. 22
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