Posts tagged as "addition"
Year 3 maths challenge: how many ways to make 18?
Here is a worksheet that makes children think a little bit more. It shows a number sentence with two numbers that total 18. It asks what the two numbers could be. The first thing to look for with this is children who use a logical or methodical approach. Usually children will write down the first [...]
Year 2 number challenge
Open ended questions are an excellent way to reinforce mathematical concepts, practice number skills and find out about some of the amazing patterns in maths. This maths worksheet is posted in our Year 2 category, under Using and Applying Maths and has proved to be one of our most popular resources. The problem is to [...]
Year 5 addition: missing digits
On the face of it this might look like an easy page, but in fact many children find this quite tricky. It should not be tried until children have a good grasp of the standard written method of addition.The addition calculation has been laid out in the standard way, together with the answer. However, two [...]
More addition of money
I am often asked to provide more pages of addition ‘sums’ so here is another look at using the standard method of addition for money. The first eight questions are laid out in the correct way. The next seven need to be written in the same way, with the decimal points lining up in a [...]
Maths game: Criss Cross 3 Addition (1)
This is a simple 2 player game suitable for children who are learning single figure addition facts. Two sets of coloured counters and a calculator are needed. Player 1 chooses two numbers from the list below. Add the two numbers on the calculator. If the answer is on the grid place a red counter on [...]
Maths Resources: Written Addition
One of the most popular parts of the site for parents is our Free Maths Worksheets: Four Rules pages on written addition. Many parents think that the methods they were taught at school (and for many this would be in the mid 1990s) are different from today. This is only partly true. Since the onset [...]
Year 5 maths worksheet: written addition
Rarely, if ever, will you find a SATs addition question which has been laid out already in the traditional, or standard method. This Year 5 maths worksheet on written addition is the second in a series which shows children clearly how addition should be laid out and also gives them the opportunity to re-write questions [...]
Year 5 maths worksheet: addition
One of the things which children find quite hard to do is to set out a question in the best format. In the Key Stage 2 tests addition problems are rarely, if ever, set out in the standard form that children learn. This page tries to help with the addition of two 3-digit numbers. The [...]
Year 5 maths worksheet: written addition
By the end of year 5 children should be confident with written methods of addition. This worksheet is a stage in this process. Some of the questions are set out how they should be. The later questions need to be set out in the same way. It is important to make sure that units are [...]
How to add two 3-digit numbers
This is a year 6 revision sheet to help children who are still not confident with adding. The method implies a good understanding of place value. At one time it was fashionable for schools to use square paper to carry out written sums but this has tended not to be the case in recent years, [...]
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