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Story Problems about Comparing

Write an equation. Solve each problem. Show your work.

  • 3 Franco and Jake are collecting cans for a recycling project. Franco has 33 cans. Jake has 20 fewer cans than Franco. How many cans does Jake have?

  • 4 Kira and Sally are collecting buttons for an art project. Kira has 58 buttons. She has 40 more buttons than Sally. How many buttons does Sally have?


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Coins, Number Strings, and Story Problems Unit 2 Attributes of Shapes and Parts of a Whole Unit 3 How Many Stickers? How Many Cents? Unit 4 Pockets, Teeth, and Guess My Rule Unit 5 How Many Tens? How Many Hundreds? Unit 6 How Far Can You Jump? Unit 7 Partners, Teams, and Other Groups Unit 8 Enough for the Class? Enough for the Grade?