Addition & Subtraction to 10,000 (4.N3) · Page 13 of 14
🌍 Real World Problems
➕ Real World Problems: Library & School
Books in, books out — addition and subtraction with real school counts
💡 Tip for parents: Libraries and schools are full of maths. If your child gets stuck, write the story as a number sentence together: start + in − out = now.
- Question 1
A library bought 500 new books and threw out 200 old books. Then a generous donor donated 2,500 books. If the library started with 4,000 books, how many does it have now?
- Question 2
The school library has 3,450 books. 1,200 are fiction and 1,050 are picture books. How many books are neither fiction nor picture books?
- Question 3
Grade 4 read 2,345 pages in the first week of the reading challenge and 1,678 pages in the second week. How many pages did they read in all?
- Question 4
A shelf held 1,000 books. 375 were checked out on Monday and 245 more on Tuesday. How many books are still on the shelf?
- Question 5
The school printed 1,500 yearbooks and sold 1,275 of them. How many yearbooks are left?