Counting Up by 2, 5 and 10

Sep 30, 2026

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Counting Up by 2, 5 and 10 provides a set of word problems focused on practicing skip counting and combining equal groups. Problems use everyday contexts such as watching videos, tennis balls in bags, toy purchases, book weights and pages, nails for building, candy totals, arcade tickets, and measuring liquid in cups. An accompanying answer key lists the correct results for problems 1 through 10.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages3

Reading Time8 min

AccessFree to download

Solve Each Problem

Problems 1-10

Answer Key

Counting Up by 2, 5 and 10 Name: | Solve each problem.
1) Faye watched a Youtube video that was 6 minutes long. Then she watched four more videos, each one being 2 minutes long. How much time did she spend watching the videos? | | | | | | Answers
1. | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2) | A large gym bag had 20 tennis balls in it. There were also two smaller bags with each one having 10 tennis balls in it. How many tennis balls were there total? | | | | | 2.
3. | | | | | | | 3) | Billy spent $6 on one toy and then he bought four smaller toys that cost $2 each. How much money did he spend total? | | | | | 4.
5. | | | | | | | 4) | Carol had a large book that weighed 20 kilograms. She also had six smaller books that weighed 5 kilograms each. How much did they weigh all together? | | | | | 6.
7. | | | | | | | 5) | Oliver downloaded a file that was 18 megabytes. He also downloaded two smaller files that were 2 megabytes each. How many megabytes total were the files he downloaded? | | | | | 8.
9. | | | | | | | 6) | At the arcade Vanessa earned 4 tickets playing Skee Ball. Then she played 'WhackA-Mole' six times and won 2 tickets each time. How many tickets did she win alltogether? | | | | | 10. | | | | | | | 7) | A large container could hold 4 cups of liquid. If you also had three smaller containers that could hold 2 cups each. How many cups total can all the containers hold? | | | | | | | | | | | | 8) | A thick book had 20 pages. A thin book had 10 pages. If you read the thick book and two thin books how many pages total would you have read? | | | | | | | | | | | | 9) | A builder used 20 nails to make a desk. Then he built two birdhouses, with each birdhouse using 10 nails. How many nails did he use total? | | | | | | | | | | | | 10) | Paul had 80 pieces of candy. Later six of his friends gave him 10 pieces each. How many pieces did he end up with? | | | | | | | | | | | | 1-10 | | 90 | 80 | 70 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 | [Math](Math www.CommonCoreSheets.com 1)[ www.CommonCoreSheets.com](Math www.CommonCoreSheets.com 1)[ 1](Math www.CommonCoreSheets.com 1) Counting Up by 2, 5 and 10 Name: Answer Key | Solve each problem.
1) Faye watched a Youtube video that was 6 minutes long. Then she watched four more videos, each one being 2 minutes long. How much time did she spend watching the videos? | | | | | | Answers
1. 14
2. 40 | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2) | A large gym bag had 20 tennis balls in it. There were also two smaller bags with each one having 10 tennis balls in it. How many tennis balls were there total? | | | | | 3. 14 | | | | | | | 3) | Billy spent $6 on one toy and then he bought four smaller toys that cost $2 each. How much money did he spend total? | | | | | 4. 50 5. 22 | | | | | | | 4) | Carol had a large book that weighed 20 kilograms. She also had six smaller books that weighed 5 kilograms each. How much did they weigh all together? | | | | | 6. 16 7. 10 | | | | | | | 5) | Oliver downloaded a file that was 18 megabytes. He also downloaded two smaller files that were 2 megabytes each. How many megabytes total were the files he downloaded? | | | | | 8. 40 9. 40 | | | | | | | 6) | At the arcade Vanessa earned 4 tickets playing Skee Ball. Then she played 'WhackA-Mole' six times and won 2 tickets each time. How many tickets did she win alltogether? | | | | | 10. 140 | | | | | | | 7) | A large container could hold 4 cups of liquid. If you also had three smaller containers that could hold 2 cups each. How many cups total can all the containers hold? | | | | | | | | | | | | 8) | A thick book had 20 pages. A thin book had 10 pages. If you read the thick book and two thin boo

FAQs

What skills do these problems practice?

They practice counting up using equal steps of 2, 5, and 10, by combining repeated groups and part totals in word problems.

Is there an answer key included?

Yes. The document includes an Answer Key section with results for problems 1 through 10.

What types of contexts are used in the questions?

The questions use real-life scenarios such as time spent watching videos, objects in bags, money for toys, weights and page counts for books, nails for building, candy totals, arcade tickets, and liquid volume in containers.

Sep 30, 2026

Uploaded by Logic