Increasing number awareness and making maths enjoyable, this series presents a rich variety of maths activities and games, explaining basic concepts and extending skills.

Increasing number awareness and making maths enjoyable, this series presents a rich variety of maths activities and games, explaining basic concepts and extending skills.

This lesson develops the concept of adding and subtracting directed numbers. The activities address common misconceptions about the addition and subtraction of directed numbers. Students explain their reasoning using diagrams.

The activities use the ‘charge’ model of directed numbers. For example, a diagram...

A number line is used in this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, to illustrate how to solve a calculation involving negative numbers. To help correct misconceptions regarding these, the term taking away is used to represent minus and giving back for plus. Thus -8 +6...

This series of excel sheets look at column addition of whole numbers and money.

The first interactive sheet contains four questions on adding three- and two-digit numbers. Answers can be revealed and a new series of questions can be generated at the click of a button.

The second sheet contains four...

The "Maths builder series" is a set of five books covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and decimals and fractions.

The books have been designed to appeal to pupils aged 9-13 years who are...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of addition, ranging from simple number bonds to dealing with decimals in context.

Addition pack one contains fifteen work cards with activities on...

This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles addition and subtraction in a variety of ways.

[b]Number line counting[/b] shows a number line of ten places, numbers between 0 and 99 can be chosen. The numbers on the line can be hidden or...

This series of seventeen interactive excel sheets, aimed at students in Year Five, look at a variety of addition and subtraction questions.

The first sheet helps to demonstrate the count up method for subtraction....

This series of fourteen interactive excel sheets aimed at students in Year Four look at a variety of integer addition and subtraction methods and questions.

The first sheet shows a combination of numbers to be added...

This series of seventeen interactive excel sheets look at a variety of addition and subtraction questions aimed at Year Six students.

In the first sheet students have to select the correct method for an addition...

This series of excel sheets, aimed at students in Year Three, look at integer addition.

In the first interactive sheet students have to complete an addition sentence using a set of given numbers. Students can check if...

'Understanding maths' is a series of topic-based study books for key stage 2, providing rigorous practice of key subject areas. Addition and subtraction describes in detail the different ways to add and subtract...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

In this STEM activity, pupils will solve three addition and subtraction problems, with the answers giving the digits needed to crack the code to a safe. This activity allows pupils to further their abilities to add and subtract numbers with up to three numbers mentally and using formal columnar methods and to solve...