Bug Story Problems

We have been busy bees working on addition and subtraction in kindergarten! These addition and subtraction bug story problems are perfect to work on addition and subtraction skills with your young learners. My students loved them!

These are easy to prepare. I first printed the materials I needed. The free download (found below), includes an addition and subtraction story problem. I chose to do the addition story problem with my students so I printed the grass story mat, the story problem page, and the bees and butterflies. I like to have my students glue their pages to an 11x17 sheet of construction paper so I also grabbed some of that, in addition to some scissors and glue. Then we were ready for some bug story problems! They each got 10 butterflies and 10 bees. My students were able to choose how many butterflies and how many bees they wanted to put in their story problem. I love doing open-ended type math problems because it allows my students some choice in their work.

Once students decided how many bees and butterflies they wanted to have in their story problem, they then cut out that many of each and used a glue stick to glue them on the paper with the grass.

Students then completed the blank lines in the story problem and the equation to match the number of butterflies and bees. They also got to color the bugs they used in their problem.

I was so pleased with how my students did with this and they really enjoyed doing it. Check out some of their awesome work! I love how some of them added some extra details into their work!