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Every problem is built from a template that owns its own arithmetic, so the answer is computed from the same numbers the sentence prints. The key cannot disagree with the question — and no language model was involved.

Written from tested templates, never by a language model
Never a negative answer, and sharing always divides evenly
Two ruled lines under each problem for working
Answer key printed after the practice pages

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Word Problems

Grade 3 · medium

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Read each problem. Show your working, then write the answer.

1. Leo has 99 marbles. Leo finds 2 more. How many marbles now?

2. Ava shares 4 books equally between 2 friends. How many does each friend get?

3. Ava has 50 shells. Ava finds 32 more. How many shells now?

4. Nina has 24 books. Nina finds 52 more. How many books now?

5. Sam shares 12 books equally between 4 friends. How many does each friend get?

6. Kai has 98 apples and gives away 70. How many are left?

7. Nina has 74 crayons and gives away 55. How many are left?

8. Ava has 3 books. Ava finds 75 more. How many books now?

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What’s on the sheet

Short problems in plain sentences, with room to show working
One-step problems on the gentler settings, two-step on the hardest
4 to 12 problems per page
A matching answer key

What each difficulty means

Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.

Gentle start

One step: adding or taking away, inside the grade's number range.

Just right

Adds comparing and sharing equally, with larger numbers.

Extra challenge

Two steps, where the answer to the first part feeds the second.

Grades this covers

Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.

The reading level is deliberately below the math level

A word problem a child cannot read is a reading test in disguise, and it tells you nothing about their arithmetic. The sentences on these sheets are short, the vocabulary is common, and the names are easy to decode, so the difficulty sits where you put it — in the numbers.

If a child gets these wrong, you have learned something about their math. That is the entire reason to keep the prose plain.

Written by rules, not by a language model

Every question here is built from a fixed sentence pattern with generated numbers, and the answer is computed at the same moment as the question. That is why the key can never disagree with the problem — a failure mode that AI-written word problems have regularly and quietly.

It also means the problems are repetitive in structure, which is a fair criticism and a deliberate trade. Predictable framing lets a child focus on the operation; the numbers are what change.

Questions

Are these written by AI?

No. Each problem comes from a template that computes its own answer, which is what makes the key reliable.

Will my child meet a negative answer?

No. Take-away problems always start from the larger number, and sharing problems are built from the answer so they divide evenly.

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