Back to School Addition Puzzles

Are your students learning to add? These back to school addition puzzles are a great practice tool for students to demonstrate their knowledge of basic addition facts. These back to school addition puzzles give students a perfect beginning of the year practice with addition fluency, or provides a great review for students who need a refresher. These addition puzzles provide a fun and engaging way for students to practice addition fact fluency.

What is Included:

This set puzzle includes 66 individual puzzles for practicing addition facts for sums up to 10. Each puzzle contains 2 pieces where the sum is on one piece and the addition fact on the other piece.

When to Use

• Math Center - Place the puzzles in a math center for students to complete alone or with a partner.

• Math Fact Review - These puzzles make a great review activity for students to practice math facts.

• Task Box Activity - The puzzles make a great task box activity. By storing in a task box, the center becomes easy to set up, clean up, and to store.

• Morning Tub Activity - Place the cards in a morning tub or bin for students to work on as they wait for their classmates to arrive to class.

• Small Group Activity - The teacher can pull aside a small group of students who need extra practice with addition.

In order to complete these puzzles, some students may need the addition of manipulatives. The teacher can provide mini erasers, pom poms, number bond mats, or tens frames mats to help students solve each addition problem. The puzzles allow students to use any method for solving addition facts.

The addition puzzles are a low prep option for students to prepare for students. Each puzzle will need to be printed and cut apart. The puzzles can be laminated for durability.