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Solving Two-Step Problems

Maths: Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum, topic 5.2.4

Solving Two-Step Problems

Sometimes problems have two steps you need to take in order to find the answer.

Example

Example

  • There are 7,500 raffle tickets to sell.
  • Lucy sold 2,364, while Daniel sold 3,748. How many are left to sell?
First step

First step

  • First, we need to add the amount of tickets sold.
  • 2,364 + 3,748 = 6,112
  • The total amount of tickets sold is 6,112.
Second step

Second step

  • Now we need to find out how many tickets from the original 7,500 are left.
  • We are finding the difference which means we are using subtraction:
  • 7,500 - 6,112 = 1,388

Test yourself on Solving Two-Step Problems

  • If we are looking to find the difference of two numbers, which operation should we use?

  • If we are looking to find the total of two numbers, which operation should we use?

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