Adding - 4th grade - math problems

  1. Loaded train
    train_freight The whole loaded train weighs 360 tons. It has twenty wagons, each carrying 12 tons of grain. What is the weight of the locomotive?
  2. Football field
    playground The soccer field may have a width of 45 meters. This is 45 meters less than the length of the course. What can be the length of the football field?
  3. Ten pupils
    venn 10 pupils came to the art group .8 pupils painted with watercolors and 9 pupils painted with ink, each pupil painted with ink or watercolors. How many pupils painted water and ink at the same time?
  4. Spending money
    penize Boris spent 324 €. Robo spent 130 € more. How much did they spend together?
  5. Two numbers
    scientific_2 Find the four times smaller number for numbers 12 and 36 and then add them.
  6. Grandma
    egg Grandma bought two 10 pack of eggs. She used 8 eggs on the cake, 2 times less on the omelette and 4 more eggs for breakfast. How many eggs did it stand for?
  7. Each chair
    stol_3 Each chair costs twice less than two tables. One table costs 720 Czech crowns. How many crowns are the table and 4 chairs?
  8. Adding shapes
    rectangle_13 5 triangles + 1 square = how many sides in all
  9. The school
    children_21 The school has 268 boys. Girls are 60 more than boys. How many children are there at school?
  10. Identity
    numbers_49 123456789 = 100 Use only three plus or minus characters to correct previous identity/equation.
  11. Beautiful alley
    stromy_8 In the alley 4 rows of 10 trees and 5 rows of 8 trees blossomed. Six of the trees have already blossomed. How many trees still bloom in the alley?
  12. Shoes 4
    shoes Belinda's shoe is 12.45 centimeters long. Felix's shoe is 2.8 centimeters longer than Belinda's shoe. In centimeters, what is the combined length of their two shoes?
  13. Handmade baskets
    kosiky Worker knits the baskets which then sells in the market. He maked seven baskets on Monday and one more each day than he did in the previous day. How many times more baskets did he make till the following Monday evening compared to the first day when he d
  14. Kangaroo
    klokan_1 Kangaroo do 10 jumps in 1 minute and then three minutes lie , then will make 10 jumps in 1 minute and 3 minutes lie, and so on. Find the shortest time in which kangaroo do 30 jumps.
  15. Toy store
    panenka In the toy department of store was exposed 28 dolls. 19 dolls were blondes or could speak. 12 dolls were blondes, 14 could speak. How many blondes could speak in the toy department? How many blondes could not speak?
  16. Skiing
    sneh Ski gondola starts at a distance of 975 m from the top and is 389 meters long. I went to the bottom station to the top station. How many meters I must go to the top of hill?
  17. Tulips and daffodils
    kvety Farm cultivated tulips and 211 units on 50 units more daffodils. How many spring flowers grown together?
  18. Add symbols
    plusminus_2 Add marks (+, -, *, /, brackets) to fullfill equations 1 3 6 5 = 10 This is for the 4th grade of the primary school - with no negative numbers yet
  19. Three numbers
    dice How much we increases the sum of three numbers when the first enlarge by 14, second by 15 and third by 16? Choose any three two-digit numbers and prove results.
  20. Water colors
    temperove-farby6 Painting workshop attend 10 students. Eight students painted water colors and nine painted with tempera colors. How many students painted water colors and tempera at the same time?

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