1st Grade Addition and Subtraction Word Problems for Whole Numbers Within 20

Are you looking for 1st grade word problems to use in your math lessons? These addition and subtraction word problems practice sheets will help your students to use a variety of methods when solving a word problem. Engage your students in meaningful practice with these quick no-prep addition and subtraction word problems worksheets.

These 1st grade word problems will give your students plenty of practice solving word problems with unknown numbers (result unknown, change unknown, start unknown). Engage your students who thrive on challenging math problems with the bonus problem at the end of each practice page! 

Included with these subtraction and addition word problems:

• 24 subtraction and addition word problems worksheets
• 1 answer key page

Using these 1st grade word problems worksheets is easy! These worksheets can be used in a whole group lesson or small group intervention, or be completed as independent work (early finishers, homework, centers).

Your students will LOVE learning various ways to solve word problems. Each page will have a word problem for students to solve. 

Strategies students will learn:

✅Using a number line

✅Drawing pictures

✅Part-part whole method

✅10 frames

✅Creating an equation

⭐️ CCSS FOCUS: 1.OA.A.1 - Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

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What teachers are saying about these subtraction and addition word problems…

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Check out these math printables:

• [OA.A.1] Word Problems 2 Whole Numbers
• [OA.A.2] Word Problems 3 Whole Numbers
• [OA.B.3] Addition (Associative and Commutative Properties)
• [OA.B.4] Subtraction Relative to Addition
• [OA.C.5] Counting On and Counting Back
• [OA.C.6] Addition and Subtraction Fluency and Strategies
• [OA.D.7] True or False Equations
• [OA.D.8] Unknown Numbers
• [MD.C.4] Data and Graphing
• [MD.B.3] Time (Hours and Half-Hours)
• [MD.B.3] Time (Quarter Hours)

Check out these language resources:

• 1st Grade Grammar Practice Pages
• 1st Grade Language Assessments
• Literacy Center Activities
• Phonics Resources
• PowerPoint Lessons

Check out these classroom posters:

• Synonym Posters
• Antonym Posters
• Dolch Sight Word Cards
• Phonics Posters

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