Name: Ways to Add Anchor Chart – Addition Strategy Posters
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

This "Ways to Add" anchor chart with addition strategy posters set is a math visual aid that is designed to help students acquire, practice, and improve the skill of addition. With it, mathematicians of all ages can learn strategies to develop their understanding of how to combine numbers with addition. The set includes an anchor chart that shows six different strategies for addition. There are also six accompanying strategy posters that detail the six strategies from the anchor chart.

This download is 7 pages total. A fun and engaging way for teachers to add this anchor chart to the class is by playing a modified version of the game Charades. Grab the math manipulatives and learning materials you would use to do these 6 addition strategies. Act each one out while students guess what addition strategy you're showing them. As students guess the strategies correct, go over that section of the poster as a class.

K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

K.OA.A.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Name six different ways of adding two numbers and recognise that they all reach the same answer
Count on from the larger number rather than starting from one, as the 4, 5, 6, 7 sequence models
Use a ten frame to add within ten and see how close a total sits to a full frame
Move along a number line in labelled hops to model an addition
Split a whole into two parts and read the part-part-whole box as an addition sentence

Teaching tips

Display the single chart first and the individual posters afterwards, adding one poster to the wall as each strategy is taught, so the wall grows with the class rather than arriving complete
Every example stays inside ten, so a child who has just met these sums can read any poster without meeting a number they cannot handle
The examples differ from poster to poster — 3 + 2, 4 + 3, 6 + 2, 5 + 3, 6 + 3, 4 + 6 — which means a child who has memorised one poster's answer still has to do the work on the next
Part-part-whole is the only strategy that does not show the counting itself, so it is worth introducing after the concrete ones rather than alongside them
Print the six posters at half size for a maths folder or workstation, since each holds one strategy and one sum with nothing else on the page

Skills covered

Counting on — the COUNT ON poster prints the sequence 4, 5, 6, 7 beside 4 + 3 = 7, showing the count starting from the larger addend rather than from one.
Ten frame addition — 6 + 2 = 8 is set in a ten frame so students see the total against a full frame of ten.
Number line addition — labelled hops of +1, +2 and +3 run along a line marked 5 to 10 to reach 5 + 3 = 8.
Drawing to add — the DRAW PICTURES poster models 6 + 3 = 9 as a picture before the equation.
Part-part-whole reasoning — 4 and 6 sit as parts beneath a whole of 10, linking the diagram to 4 + 6 = 10.
Choosing a strategy — with all six on one chart, students pick the method that suits the numbers instead of using one procedure for every sum.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Which six strategies does the chart cover?

Count fingers, count on, ten frame, number line, draw pictures and part-part-whole. All six appear together on the chart and then again as separate posters, each keeping the same worked example both times.

How large are the numbers in the examples?

Every one stays within ten: 3 + 2 = 5, 4 + 3 = 7, 6 + 2 = 8, 5 + 3 = 8, 6 + 3 = 9 and 4 + 6 = 10. The number line runs from 5 to 10 and the ten frame holds ten, so nothing on any page goes above it.

Do the posters repeat the chart or add to it?

They repeat it at size. Each poster takes one strategy from the chart, keeps its worked example and gives it a full page, which makes it readable from across a room and lets a single strategy stand alone on the wall while it is being taught.