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Spring Addition & Subtraction Worksheets

Eight addition facts and eight subtraction facts on two spring-themed pages, with each answer written beside the picture it belongs to rather than under the sum.
Year groups
Early years, Years 1–2
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Updated Oct 25, 2021

Subject
Numbers, Maths
Topic
Addition, Subtraction
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Spring-themed worksheets to help your early learners practice addition, subtraction, and mental maths.

Addition - add the numbers and write the result next to the correct picture on the bottom of the page.

Subtraction - subtract and write the result next to the correct picture on the bottom of the page.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Add two single-digit numbers with sums up to 10

  • Subtract within 10, taking a single-digit number from a number no greater than 9

  • Match a computed answer to the picture it belongs to rather than writing it in place

  • Recognise that different pairs give the same total — 3+4 and 1+6 both make 7, and 9+1 and 5+5 both make 10

Teaching tips

  • Because the answers go beside pictures rather than under the sums, children have to keep the result in their head while they find where it belongs — worth modelling one item together before letting the class start

  • Several answers repeat within a page (7 appears twice on the addition sheet, 2 and 5 twice each on the subtraction sheet), so tell children a picture may share a value with another rather than assuming each answer is unique

  • The two pages are independent, so the addition sheet can be set weeks before the subtraction one without either losing sense

  • The headings are "I can" statements, which makes them usable as the wording for a learning objective on the board

Skills covered

  • Addition within 10 — eight facts including doubles (4+4, 5+5) and near-ten pairs (9+1), all with single-digit addends.

  • Subtraction within 10 — eight facts taking a single digit from a number up to 9, with differences between 2 and 5.

  • Equivalent pairs — different addends land on the same total (3+4 and 1+6 both make 7; 6+3 and 4+5 both make 9), which gives children repeated results to notice while they match answers to pictures.

  • Matching an answer to a target — the direction sends each result to a picture at the foot of the page, so the task ends with a matching step rather than a written column.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Where do children write their answers?

Not beside the sum. Both pages carry the same direction — write the result next to the correct picture below — and each page ends with eight equals signs laid out in two rows of four, so the answer has to be carried down to the picture it belongs to.

How large do the numbers get?

Everything stays in single digits. The largest addition total is 10 (9+1 and 5+5), the smallest is 7, and on the subtraction page the largest starting number is 9 with differences running from 2 up to 5. No sum crosses ten and no item involves a two-digit number.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Addition

  • Subtraction

  • Numbers to 10

  • Spring

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