Addition resources

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity.

Students use Cuisenaire rods or Animal strips to make up addition number sentences and record them.

Students explore the concept of equality by deciding whether addition sentences are true, false or not proper number sentences.

Students identify possible combinations of scores from a dart thrown at a target. They also find the lowest possible score and individual throws from a given total score.

Students use given distances to calculate other distances.

For this NEMP task students perform calculations using fractions and mixed numbers.

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

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

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 calculate the number of different sized bottles of cola needed to make 6 litres and calculate the cheapest option to buy 12 litres

Students calculate the changes to an account balance after two withdrawals and a deposit.

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

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

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 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.