Additive thinking resources

Students solve addition maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

Students solve subtraction maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

Students show how to solve some addition problems.

Students work out the extra amounts of ingredients needed for a recipe and complete a table of results.

Students identify fractions that are greater than one, explain their reasoning and identify how far from one some fractions are.

Students solve addition and subtraction problems involving fractions and mixed numbers with different denominators.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half and explain their reasoning. They also identify how far from half some fractions are and name a fraction closer to half than one given.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.

Students calculate how price changes affect a purchase.

Students find and write the numbers to complete equations that add to 10 or 20.

Using given information about a shop's takings students round the amounts to give estimated totals for four weeks takings.

Students perform calculations on indoor cricket scores, which include negative numbers.

Students answer addition and subtraction questions about attendance at an art show.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate temperatures over periods of time.

Students identify the correct change from purchasing food at a food bar.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

Students use given distances to calculate other distances.

Students use given information to solve a problem using a Venn diagram.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students find the biggest and smallest numbers from a list of positive and negative numbers. They add, subtract and multiply using these numbers.

Students use addition and subtraction to solve story problems.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students estimate the sum of a number of fractions.

Students solve addition and subtraction problems involving fractions with different denominators.

Students explain errors in calculations that include all operations, decimal values, and percentages.