Grade 6 Integers Word Problems
Grade 6 integers word problems sheet: 10 problems on .
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Read each problem carefully. Show your work, then write your answer on the line.
- 1.The temperature was -5°C at midnight and fell 17 degrees by dawn. What was the temperature at dawn?
- 2.Hana gets in an elevator on floor 9, goes down 12 floors, then up 5 floors. Which floor is Hana on now?
- 3.The temperature was 2°C at midnight and fell 20 degrees by dawn. What was the temperature at dawn?
- 4.Priya gets in an elevator on floor 11, goes down 15 floors, then up 6 floors. Which floor is Priya on now?
- 5.The temperature was 3°C at midnight and fell 4 degrees by dawn. What was the temperature at dawn?
- 6.The temperature was -20°C at midnight and fell 8 degrees by dawn. What was the temperature at dawn?
- 7.Maya's bank balance is $0. After a deposit of $270, what is the balance?
- 8.Yara gets in an elevator on floor 3, goes down 7 floors, then up 2 floors. Which floor is Yara on now?
- 9.Quinn's bank balance is $-200. After a deposit of $290, what is the balance?
- 10.A diver is 118 meters below the surface and rises 13 meters. What is the diver's position, as an integer?
What this worksheet covers
There are ten story problems here — one page to work, one page of answers to check against — and Sets B and C repeat the layout with different numbers. Within that, six of the ten problems involve a negative quantity and the problems are written as situations that have to be translated before they can be calculated. Problems 4 and 7, for instance, are "Priya gets in an elevator on floor 11, goes down 15 floors,…" and "Maya's bank balance is $0. After a deposit of $270, what is…".
Skills practiced
The grade 6 integers sequence covers comparing and ordering integers, opposites, absolute value, and a first look at adding on a number line; this page sits inside it. To finish it, a student has to read a situation and choose an operation before computing, track direction as well as magnitude, and carry money notation through to the answer. Nine different answers appear across the ten problems, so a student cannot copy one result down the page.
About the word problems format
The 10 story problems each get a full line and an answer rule; problem 4, "Priya gets in an elevator on floor 11, goes down 15 floors,…" is one of them. Temperatures, depths, floors and balances give negative numbers a meaning that makes the direction of an answer checkable.
Set A, Set B and Set C
All three sets are produced by the site's deterministic generator from a fixed seed, so they are the same every time the site is built and the answer keys are exact. Where Set A's problem 6 is "The temperature was -20°C at midnight and fell 8 degrees by…", Set B's is "A diver is 96 meters below the surface and rises 4 meters.…".
How to use this worksheet
Work it without a calculator. Every one of the ten integers problems is designed to be done by hand, and reaching for a calculator at grade 6 skips exactly the reasoning being built. If more than a third of the ten problems come back wrong, stop and step back a grade in integers rather than assigning Set B.
Other grade 6 integers formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Drill — Grade 6 Integers Drill, 30 problems
- Timed Drill — Grade 6 Integers Timed Drill, 60 problems
- Missing Number — Grade 6 Integers Missing Number, 24 problems
- Mixed Review — Grade 6 Integers Mixed Review, 30 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- 7.NS.3 — Rational Numbers in the Real World — grade 7, 22 problems
Word Problems sheets in other grade 6 topics
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