Compensation Worksheet

Practice addition with progressively larger numbers. Four worksheets include main problems and additional challenges, letting you select work suited to your students.
Grades
Grades 1–4, Elementary
Pages
4
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Jul 06, 2022

Subject
Math, Addition and Subtraction, Addition
Topic
Compensation Strategy, Addition Practice
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
Preparation
Print ready
Standards
2.NBT.B.5

Product description

From the author

Practice addition with four worksheets that progress from single-digit addends to larger multi-digit calculations. Each page has fifteen main problems and three challenges; the last page includes four-digit challenge addends.

Use the equations for compensation practice after modeling the strategy. The download has no worked example or answer key. Choose a Worksheet suited to the learner’s number range.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Calculate sums with increasing number sizes.

  • Apply a previously taught addition strategy to a set of equations.

Teaching tips

  • Model compensation before assigning independent practice; no worked example is supplied.

  • Choose a page that matches the student’s number range.

  • Use the three challenge problems as an extension when appropriate.

Skills covered

  • Addition calculation: find totals across several levels of difficulty.

  • Strategy application: explain an adjustment when using compensation.

  • Place value: track how a change to an addend affects the total.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the worksheet teach the compensation method?

The file supplies addition equations without a worked example. Teach or model compensation before using the pages to practice it.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • 2.NBT.B.5

Core concepts

  • Addition

  • Place value

  • Compensation as a teacher-modeled strategy

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