Not only does soup make you feel better, it can help you learn math too! Introduce your first grader to word problems by putting together some hearty soup.

Create mathematical fruit salad as you add and subtract different types of fruit with this worksheet full of beginners' word problems.

Can you find the equations hidden in these number stories? Have your little math sleuth write out each subtraction problem to go with the word problem.

Practice addition from a different approach with these number stories. Find the addition equation in each word problem.

Let's go on a math hike! Read each word problem out loud, and figure out the addition or subtraction equation that it represents.