📊 Comparison Word Problems with Addition and Subtraction

📖 What the Section Is About

In this lesson, students learn to solve word problems that compare two quantities using addition and subtraction. They practice figuring out how much more or less one quantity is than another. This helps them understand relationships between numbers in real-life situations.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Identify key information in comparison word problems
✅ Decide whether to add or subtract to solve the problem
✅ Use bar models or drawings to represent the situation
✅ Solve one-step and two-step comparison problems
✅ Check answers for reasonableness

🧪 Examples

  • Maria has 18 apples, and John has 25 apples. How many more apples does John have?

  • A store sold 45 shirts in January and 38 in February. How many more shirts were sold in January?

  • Liam read 42 pages, and Noah read 27 pages. How many pages did Liam read than Noah?

📘 Key Vocabulary and Definitions

  • Comparison: Checking how two amounts are different or the same

  • Quantity: An amount or number of something

  • Difference: The result of subtracting one number from another

  • Sum: The result of adding two or more numbers

🎲 Fun Practice Activities

  1. Activity Worksheet

  2. Test Yourself: Interactive Practice Quiz

🏡 Offline Homework Idea

Write three comparison word problems using things at home, then solve them.