What words signal us to perform the operations below?

Word bank: increase, fewer, per, plus, each, times, sum, more than, product, add, half, combine, quotient, total, decrease, minus, split, share, subtract, difference, less, take away, spent, doubled, left, tripled, how much less

Highlight the operation word in each sentence below, then write the expressions below with numbers and operations’ symbols.

Complete together

1. What is three minus nine?
2. What does two plus four equal?
3. What is seven times nine?
4. Split 15 three ways.

Complete on your own:

5. Decrease nine by two.
6. What is the difference between twelve and three?
7. What is three less than fifteen?
8. Subtract seven from twenty.
9. Take away five from twenty-five.
10. If he spent seven of his nine dollars, how much money does he have left?
11. How much less is something that costs twelve dollars than something that costs forty dollars?
12. If I have ten apples and you have five apples, how many fewer apples do I have?
13. What is the product of five and nine?
14. What is seven tripled?
15. What is nine doubled?
16. Seven CDs cost ten dollars each. What is the total cost?
17. You want to buy four shirts. The cost is twelve dollars per shirt. What is your total cost?
18. You have 15 apples and want to share them equally between yourself and two friends. How many apples will each person get?
19. What is the quotient of 21 and three?
20. What is half of 16?
21. Find the sum of two and seven.
22. What is the total of nine and eleven?
23. Combine seven and four.
24. What is four more than three?
25. Increase two by five.