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Encourage students to reflect on the context before solving story problems. Use these reflective questions during whole group, small group, or independent instruction.

Have you met Alan? He's a ghost. Alan enjoys haunting people. Use your math skills to figure out how old Alan is.

This worksheet offers fifth graders a chance to learn about a fascinating true story, and also provides some great related word problems practice.

Solve silly word problems with this fill-in-the-blank math worksheet for fourth graders!

Learn about fractions with a set of fun, real-world scenarios!

Hungry for math practice? Get your fill of fractions with this restaurant-themed worksheet.

Don't let skeletons scare you from doing Halloween math! Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and even fractions with scary skeleton word problems.

It's time for a monster party! Help the guests - a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy and a werewolf -- calculate the cost of all the party food and favors.

Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve subtraction problems with numbers up to three digits long.

Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve addition problems with two or three two-digit addends.

Solve time and elapsed time word problems in this library-themed math worksheet!

Just how many lemon slices, star stickers, or picked flowers are there? In this math worksheet, kids will solve simple multiplication word problems.

Kids will answer the question "Just how many?" in each of these multiplication word problems. Find numbers of crayons, gumballs, and balloons in our worksheet.

Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve multiplication problems.

Kids use details from word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve division problems in which a multidigit number is evenly divided.

Take a daring dive into divison as you help a dragon crack the code!