Additive thinking resources

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.

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.

Students add up the times for a number of exercises to get the total.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication and show their strategies.

Students show how they perform an addition and a subtraction problem, and write their own subtraction story problem.

Students answer questions about total cost, cheapest, most expensive, and the maximum number of books that can be bought. Book prices are decimal numbers.

Students work out starting and finishing times, and how long events take.

Students calculate the distance around three different sized gardens.

Students show how to solve some subtraction problems.

Students calculate the numbers of pieces of fruit and vegetables divided evenly into bags, and any remainder.

Students identify the least number of coins needed to make up specified amounts of money.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate the changing balance in a students back account.

In this practical task, students are to estimate the cost of meals ordered from a menu. The teacher reads out the meals and students show the steps in their estimations.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of cake.