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Twenty-seven graduated lessons with three problems each.  A work template is included for each problem. For students in grades 3 and up. Solutions included. Sample problems are shown below*. Click here to see an interactive whiteboard application of this workbook.

 

#4. Tom had five bags of marbles. Each bag contained the same number of marbles. If he had 40 marbles in total, how many marbles where in each bag?

 

#22. Four times a number gives the same result as three times the same number increased by 9. Find the number.

 

#46. Jim said, "If you take my age, double it, add 10, and then double it again, you get 52." Can you find Jim's age?

 

#65. The length of a rectangle is 5 units more than its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 50, how long is each side?

 

#77. A red toy scooter moves at a constant speed of 6 feet per second for 4 seconds. How much farther does it need to travel in order for it to go a total of 38 feet?

*The use of this workbook assumes the completion of Level I of Hands-On Equations, or at least the first four lessons along with an introduction to the pictorial notation of Lesson #7.

More advanced Level I verbal problems, as well as Level II and III verbal problems, may be found in the Hands-On Equations Verbal Problems Book.