Addition Teaching Resources
A large collection of teaching resources to use when your students are learning to add numbers and apply addition strategies. Use the educational posters as a visual stimulus in your primary classroom. Also provided are hands-on learning activities, games, worksheets and maths worksheet generator and maths mentals widgets. These widgets allow you to customise daily worksheets and quizzes for your students, using the number range of your choice. Use the pre and post tests to ascertain each student's prior knowledge before starting an addition or operations unit of work.
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Addition Detectives
This Mathematics unit covers a range of mental computation strategies for addition.
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Assessment - Addition Strategies
A 30-minute assessment designed to assess students' understanding of working with place value to solve problems, the connection between addition and subtraction, and the development of efficient mental strategies for computation.
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Finding Your Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to reinforce that students can choose to use different addition strategies in different situations.
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Compensation Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to build upon students' understanding of addition and subtraction by exploring compensation.
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Linking Addition and Subtraction
A 60-minute lesson designed to investigate the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Split Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to progress student understanding of mental addition by partitioning numbers into place value to help them find a total.
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Number Boards
A 60-minute lesson designed to explore the use of number boards/hundreds charts when adding numbers.
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Jump Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to explore the jump strategy for adding two- and three-digit numbers.
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Bridging to Ten
A 60-minute lesson designed for students to recall 'friends of ten' facts and use this knowledge to solve addition sums.
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Concrete Materials
A 60-minute lesson to reinforce student understanding of basic addition principles, using concrete materials.
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Hands-On Addition Activities for the Classroom
Our top picks for hands-on activities to consolidate simple addition.
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The Best Hands-On Activity for Numbers to 10
A super fun hands-on activity to help consolidate children's knowledge of numbers one to ten.
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15 New and Exciting Place Value Activities!
Take a look at these 15 NEW resources to teach the concept of place value to your class. We have place value activities for any year level!
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10 Easy, Simple Addition Activities for Kids
Are your students frustrated with the concept of addition? Make addition fun in the classroom, or even at home, with these creative, easy and effective hands-on activities.
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The Bar Model Method | Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving
The Bar Model is an explicit strategy for mathematical problem solving. It can be applied to all operations, including multiplication and division.