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Addition & Subtraction Strategy Cards

Reference cards for addition and subtraction strategies, each explaining one method, such as counting on, make ten or break apart, with a worked example.
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Plus Zero and Counting On addition cards: 3 + 0 = 3, and 2 + 8 = 10 solved by counting on from 8 to 9, 10
Anchor reference for early fact-fluency lessons
Turn Around and Doubles Minus One cards: 4 + 1 and 1 + 4 both equal 5; 7 + 6 solved as 7 + 7 = 14, minus 1 = 13
Post on the math wall when introducing the commutative property
Doubles and Doubles Plus One cards: 2 + 2 = 4 shown with circles, and 7 + 6 solved as 6 + 6 = 12, plus 1 = 13
Mini-lesson visual for building near-doubles facts
Plus Ten and Make Ten cards: 32 + 10 = 42, then all eleven number pairs that add to 10 beside a rainbow from 0 to 10
Display during make-ten and mental math warm-ups
Two Apart and Plus Nine cards: 5 + 7 solved by doubling the middle number 6, and 6 + 9 as 6 + 10 = 16, minus 1 = 15
Model these mental math moves at the start of fact practice
Compensation and Compatible Numbers cards: 8 + 7 regrouped to make 10 + 5, and 4 + 3 regrouped to make 5 + 2
Small-group prompt for regrouping to friendly numbers
Break Apart and Number Line cards: 825 + 716 added by place value to 1541, and 37 + 12 shown as jumps of 10, 1, 1 to 49
Reference for multi-digit addition with place value
Algorithm addition card: 357 + 468 stacked vertically by place value with carried ones for a sum of 825
Show alongside the standard method when modelling regrouping
Minus Zero and Counting Back subtraction cards: 3 - 0 = 3, and 7 - 2 = 5 solved by counting back from 7 to 6, 5
Introduce subtraction facts with these zero and count-back rules
A Number Minus Itself and Subtract 9 cards: 3 - 3 = 0, and 36 - 9 solved as 36 - 10 = 26, then count forward 1 to 27
Subtraction strategy reminders for a student math toolkit
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Grades 1–4
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Updated Jul 06, 2022

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This resource is a set of Addition & Subtraction Strategy Cards.

Each page has 2 different cards on it and make the perfect reference guide for your math students.

These cards teach about counting on, using a number line, algorithms and so much more.

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  • Counting on

  • Doubles

  • Make ten

  • Compensation

  • Standard algorithm

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