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Success in Mathematics

Learn About Math Problems

Basic Operations
ADDITIONSUBTRACTIONMULTIPLICATIONDIVISION
plus sign

plus sign

equals sign

sum
minus sign

minus sign

difference
times sign or multiplication sign

times sign or multiplication sign

product
quotient

quotient

division sign

    Say:

  • • Seventeen plus fourteen equals thirty-one.

  • • Seventeen and fourteen is thirty-one.
    Say:

  • • Twenty-three minus nine is fourteen.

  • • The difference between nine and twenty-three is fourteen.
    Say:

  • • Twenty-five times three equals seventy-five.

  • • Twenty-five multiplied by three is seventy-five.
    Say:

  • • Thirty-nine divided by three is thirteen.

  • • Three into thirty-nine is thirteen.

Solve each problem. Then read it aloud.

Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide
Example

2 × 3 = __6__

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Say:

Two times three equals six.

  • 1 Illustration of a vertical math problem: 7 + 8

  • 2 38 + 6 = _____

  • 3 Illustration of a vertical subtraction problem: 92 - 49

  • 4 88 − 29 = _____

  • 5 Illustration of a vertical multiplication problem: 7 x 6

  • 6 12 × 3 = _____

  • 7 Illustration of the division problem: 96 divided by 12

  • 8 99 ÷ 3 = _____

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