Cow's Farm Adding Stories – Word Problems Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Read each short farm story, decide to add, and write the number sentence. This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with word problems, with a friendly cow to guide them. It has a name, class and date box for students, the mindtested.com header and footer, and a teacher answer key on page 2.

What Questions Are in This Worksheet?

There are 3 activities worth 11 marks in total:

• Activity A: Four adding stories to 10.
• Activity B: Adding pictures to match a story.
• Activity C: Solving adding stories with multiple choice.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Reading short adding stories
• Reading short take-away stories
• Deciding whether to add or subtract
• Writing a number sentence for a story

How to Use This Worksheet

1. Print the PDF on A4 paper (colour is best, but black and white works too).
2. Read each instruction aloud together before your child starts.
3. Let your child try every activity independently first.
4. Mark with the answer key on page 2 and talk through any mistakes.

Tip: five to ten minutes of regular practice works better for Grade 1 learners than one long session. Colour in the cow when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand, where learners read short stories, choose to add or take away and write the number sentence. Answer key included.