This document contains several word problems involving comparison of quantities. The problems ask students to determine strategy, show work, and communicate answers in full sentences. Questions involve comparing numbers of objects between two people or situations and calculating differences or totals. Students are asked to identify the operation and information required to solve each problem.

1. Read and solve the following word problems.
1. Sally has 12 colour pencils. Sue has 20 colour pencils. How many
more colour pencils does Sue have?
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2. Tim has 58 candies. Tommy has 23 candies. How many less candies
does Tommy have?
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MATH EXERCISE WORKSHOP: COMPARISON WORD PROBLEMS
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS 2nd
GRADE – 1st
Term
TEACHER: GROUP: A-B-C
NAME: AVERAGE:
DATE:

2. 3. Susana’s desk is 156 cm long, Rodolfo’s desk measures 78 cm more
than Susana’s. How long is Rodolfo’s desk?
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4. Mr Jose participated in an athletic marathon last weekend. He got
second place since the winner arrived when the stopwatch marked
47 minutes and Mr. Jose arrived 14 minutes later. How many minutes
did Mr. Jose take to get to the finish line?
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3. Read the following questions and answer:
1. Amanda has 11 notebooks. Rose has 6 notebooks. If we want to know
how many more notebooks Amanda has, what operation do we have
to do?
a. A subtraction, because we need to know the total.
b. An addition, because we need to know the total.
c. A subtraction, because we need to know the difference.
d. An addition because we need to know the difference.
2. Read the problem:
Amanda has 11 notebooks. Rose has 6 notebooks. How many more
notebooks does Amanda have?
a. Amanda has 5 more notebooks than Rose.
b. Amanda has 17 more notebooks than Rose.
c. Amanda has 6 more notebooks than Rose.
d. Amanda has 11 notebooks.
Show your work:
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4. 3. Read the problem:
David had 95 stickers. José has 37 less than David. How many stickers
does José have?
What are we asked to find?
a. The bigger amount.
b. The difference.
c. The smaller amount.
4. Read the problem:
David had 95 stickers. José has 37 less than David. How many stickers
does José have?
What is the correct communication sentence?
a. José has 58 stickers.
b. José has 50 stickers.
c. José has 48 stickers.
d. José has 56 stickers.
Show your work:
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5. 5. In a school, there are 542 girls and 387 boys. How many more girls
are there?
This problem is asking for:
a. The total of the parts
b. The difference between the
parts
c. One of the parts
d. This is not a word problem
Show your work:
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6. 6. Carl watched 124 Pokémon episodes last week and Joshua watched
167. How many more episodes did Joshua watch than Carl?
This problem is asking for:
a. The total of the part
b. the difference
between the parts
c. one of the parts
d. this is not a word
problem
Show your work:
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