Learning topic
Addition
Stretch confident learners with multi-step and open-ended problems.
Guides in this topic
- Adding multiples of 10 1 guide Use place value to add 10, 20 or 30 mentally.
- Adding one and two 1 guide Build early fluency without relying only on memorised sequences.
- Adding three numbers 1 guide Look for friendly pairs and number bonds before adding.
- Adding two-digit numbers mentally 1 guide Split into tens and ones for flexible mental addition.
- Adding zero 1 guide Show why adding zero leaves a number unchanged.
- Addition as counting on 1 guide Start from one number and count forward to add efficiently.
- Addition as joining 1 guide Use objects and stories to show addition as putting groups together.
- Addition bar models 1 guide Draw bars to represent parts and wholes in word problems.
- Addition challenge problems 1 guide Stretch confident learners with multi-step and open-ended problems.
- Addition fluency ladders 1 guide Build from easy facts to harder facts in small steps.
- Addition misconceptions 1 guide Fix errors such as counting all, misaligning columns and ignoring regrouping.
- Addition on a number line 1 guide Model jumps forward to solve addition problems.
- Addition vocabulary 1 guide Explain add, plus, sum, total, altogether, increase and more than.
- Addition with measures 1 guide Combine lengths, masses, capacities and times accurately.
- Addition with money 1 guide Add prices using place value and decimal notation.
- Addition with ten frames 1 guide Use five and ten structures to make sums visible.
- Addition word problems 1 guide Solve joining, adding on and comparison problems with pictures and equations.
- Checking addition with subtraction 1 guide Use inverse operations to see whether an answer makes sense.
- Column addition with regrouping 1 guide Use place-value exchange to handle sums greater than 9 in a column.
- Column addition without regrouping 1 guide Line up place values and add each column accurately.
- Compensation in addition 1 guide Adjust one number to make a friendly sum, then compensate.
- Doubles addition facts 1 guide Learn doubles through pairs, mirrors and arrays.
- Make ten strategy 1 guide Bridge through 10 to solve facts such as 8 + 5.
- Missing addend problems 1 guide Use part-whole models to solve 7 + □ = 12.
- Near doubles addition 1 guide Solve near doubles by adjusting a known double.
- Number bonds for addition 1 guide Use known pairs to build flexible addition facts.
- Partitioning for addition 1 guide Break numbers apart to add tens and ones separately.
