Missing Addends Worksheets for Addition Facts

Missing addends are the focus of nine worksheets: five pages each practise adding 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, two mixed pages ask for the second addend, and two more put the missing number first or second.
Year groups
Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Years 1–2 (Key Stage 1)
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Updated Sep 18, 2026

Subject
Addition, Addition and Subtraction, Early Math, Maths
Topic
Addition Facts, Addition Within 10
Resource types
Activities, Worksheets
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About this resource

Practise addition fact fluency with these addition worksheets with missing addends for addition within 10. These worksheets allow Year 1 and Year 2 students to solve addition equations with missing addends.

Activities Included

This product contains nine worksheets for addition with missing addends. There are 5 worksheets that include missing addends which focus on adding 1, adding 2, adding 3, adding 4, and adding 5. There are also four worksheets with mixed addition where students will write the missing addend to make each addition equation true.

When to Use:

  • Independent Practice - Teachers can the worksheets to the students to complete at their seats independently.

  • Small Group Activities - Teachers can use these worksheets in small group settings to help target areas where students need more practice.

  • Morning Work - These pages can be given to students to complete in the morning while waiting for other students to arrive to class.

  • Homework - These worksheets can be sent home with students to practise addition with number bonds at home with parents.

  • Maths Centres - These pages can be put in a maths centre with counting manipulatives for students to practise counting to find the missing addend.

  • Emergency Cover Plans - These worksheets have easy to understand instructions to allow supply teachers to easily assign these sheets to students.

These worksheets are easy to diversity for students by adding counting manipulatives for students who need a more hands on approach to solving addition problems. The worksheets can be laminated and used with dry-wipe markers to create a write and wipe activity for a maths centre.

Skills Assessed:

  • Addition up to 10

  • Missing Addends

All of the worksheets are no prep. Teachers just need to print the pages and hand them to students to complete. Laminating the pages and providing counting manipulatives is optional.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Find the unknown addend that makes an addition equation true

  • Recall addition facts for adding 1 through 5

Teaching tips

  • The fixed-addend pages isolate one fact family at a time, so they could come before the four mixed pages that combine them.

Skills covered

  • Solving for an unknown addend — filling the blank in equations where the sum and one addend are given

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