Addition Word Problems

Year 5 MathsAddition and Subtraction5 pages

About this worksheet

Eight Year 5 addition word problems on a coastal theme, across four pages, with worked answers on page 5. Part 1 adds pairs: visitors to a marine centre in July and August, ferry distances, railway tickets and a lorry journey. Part 2 totals three fictional town populations from a table, then checks Leo's claim that a residential trip will cost less than ยฃ7,000. Part 3 adds three groups of visitors at a lighthouse museum and ends with a two-step fundraising problem. Every problem has an estimate box and space for column working.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Number - addition and subtraction

โ€œSolve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and whyโ€

Question 6 needs a total and a comparison with ยฃ7,000, and question 8 needs the Term 2 total before the sum for both terms.

Number - addition and subtraction

โ€œUse rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracyโ€

Every problem has an estimate box, to the nearest 1,000 or, in question 6, the nearest ยฃ100.

Number - addition and subtraction

โ€œAdd and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)โ€

The instructions ask for formal column addition, with totals up to 72,450.

What's inside this worksheet

Part 1, Visitor Totals and Coastal Travel

Four two-number additions, such as 23,540 and 19,685 railway tickets over a bank holiday weekend.

Part 2, Town Populations and Trip Costs

A table of three towns to total, then ยฃ4,385, ยฃ1,460 and ยฃ1,275 for a school trip, rounded to the nearest ยฃ100 to test Leo's claim.

Part 3, Multi-Step Coastal Challenges

Adult, child and senior visitors to add, then a two-step problem where Year 5 raise 4,500p more in Term 2 than in Term 1.

Answers

Each answer shows the rounded estimate beside the exact total. The trip comes to ยฃ7,120, so Leo is wrong.

How teachers use it

Estimate race

Read a problem aloud and give pupils ten seconds to write only the estimate. Then they calculate and compare the two.

Talk about Leo

Question 6 is good for discussion. The rounded estimate is ยฃ7,200 and the exact cost is ยฃ7,120, so both show Leo is wrong, and pupils can say why.

Pence to pounds

After question 8, ask pupils to change 70,300p into pounds. It links the problem back to earlier money work.

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