One Step Word Problems Worksheet | Math Warm Up Practice with Answer Key Set

One step word problems worksheet for a math warm up

This one step word problems worksheet is a 13 page packet with 75 questions for grades 3 to 5. The stories use everyday scenes such as notebooks, marbles, teams, books and boxes of apples.

Students solve single-step problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, judge true or false claims, fill in sentences from a Number Bank, write short answers and finish with a few multi-step problems.

Teachers who need a one step word problems worksheet for a daily warm up or a review week will find five sections here, and the packet comes with an answer key, an answer sheet and a lesson plan.

What’s on the pages

The worksheet has five sections, and each one has its own heading and directions.

• Single-step word problems: 20 multiple choice questions, such as 5 packs of notebooks with 7 in each pack, 48 marbles shared among 6 friends and 32 students divided into 4 teams.
• Word problem logic and mathematical statements: 15 true or false claims, such as decreasing 85 by 37 giving 48, and reading 15 pages a day for 4 days making 60 pages.
• Fill in the blank word problems: 15 questions that use a Number Bank, such as the days in three weeks, 10 points taken from 100 and half of a 50 page book.
• Short answer word problems: 20 questions, such as $95 with a $28 book bought, 14 red roses plus 18 yellow roses and 120 library books placed 15 to a shelf.
• Multi-step word problems: 5 questions, such as $50 spent on 3 books at $8 each and a crate of 5 boxes with 12 apples in each.

The true or false section asks students to check a claim before they trust it, which is a good habit for any word problem.

What’s in the download

• Student worksheet: 13 pages
• Answer key: 15 pages, with a short explanation after each answer
• Answer sheet: 4 pages
• Lesson plan: 2 pages

The four parts add up to 34 pages, and everything comes as PDF.

How to use this one step word problems worksheet

The lesson plan is set for 60 minutes: 10 minutes of review, 40 minutes of practice and 10 minutes of wrap-up. Its objectives are to identify key operation words in single-step and multi-step problems, to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems accurately, to judge true or false claims, and to use mental math and step-by-step strategies in real situations.

The plan begins with a 10 minute warm-up on core words such as total, difference, product, quotient and remaining. The materials list the worksheet handout, pencils and scratch paper, and a whiteboard or display board for sample problems.

Ask students to circle the question and underline the numbers first. Then they decide which operation the story needs before they calculate.

Because the sections are short, you can give one a day as a warm up and save the multi-step problems for the end of the week.

The answer sheet keeps the worksheet clean for reuse, and the answer key explains each answer in a short sentence.

This math word problems warm up works well as bell work. Students who need one step and two step word problems in one place will find them here, and the number bank word problems give a lighter way to practice. With word problems with answer key pages included, a parent or sub can check the work in minutes.

Where it fits

Use it for morning work, math centers, homework, intervention or a review before a test. Homeschool families can work through one section a day.

Take a look at the preview pages before you buy, so you can see the worksheet, the answer key and the answer sheet.

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Many teachers use this one step word problems worksheet in a weekly routine, one section per day, and repeat the set after a few weeks to see growth.

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