Word Problems with the PJ Masks!

My girls are all into PJ Masks at the moment... It comes on TV on TinyPop or you can find episodes pretty easily on YouTube (you can even find some dubbed in Arabic!). So I decided to utilise this by making up some simple word problems using the characters from the show.

Each sheet has 5 questions on it (a manageable amount for their age, I think). The first and second sheet have 1-step problems, the first focusing on addition and the second on subtraction. The third sheet has 2-step problems with a mixture of addition and subtraction.

We worked through them using cubes to physically represent the numbers. You could do it with a number line or whichever method you prefer though. We also wrote down each question as a number sentence (e.g. 5 + 2 =) before writing the answer, so they could get used to seeing how word problems translate into numerical problems. And we didn't do all the sheets in one go! We spread them out over a few days in between standard addition/subtraction practise just using numbers.

You can download the worksheets here. As always, feel free to edit as you wish - so you can change the numbers accordingly to make them more or less challenging. 😀