Basic 5Mathematics18 min

Equation Stories with Letters

A class writes snack-sharing stories as equations with one unknown letter.

Find the missing snack bag.

A table has 7 oranges and some more in a bag. There are 12 oranges altogether. Write and solve the equation.

Equation Stories with Letters illustration

A class writes snack-sharing stories as equations with one unknown letter.

Solve 7 + x = 12.

  1. The unknown x is the number in the bag.
  2. Remove 7 from both sides to find x = 5.