One maker for every step
- Within 10. The facts children learn first, a whole sheet at a time.
- Within 20. Sums that cross ten, like 8 + 5 and 7 + 6.
- Two digits, no regrouping. Add the ones, then the tens.
- Two digits with regrouping. Ten ones make a ten: carry it to the next column.
- Three digits. The same steps with hundreds.
Stacked or in a row
Stacked problems line the digits up in columns, the way children learn written addition with regrouping. Problems in a row (47 + 25 = ___) suit mental maths and fact practice. Both come with an answer key.
More addition
For younger children, picture addition has groups of pictures to count before the number sentence. For taking away, the subtraction worksheets work the same way, with or without borrowing.
In the MATATAG curriculum
- Grade 1Adding with sums up to 20, seen as counting up and putting together, then two-digit sums up to 100 without regrouping.
- Grade 2Sums up to 1000 with and without regrouping, after adding in expanded form and by counting up on a number line.
- Grade 3Sums up to 10,000, with estimating a sum before working it out.
The MATATAG guide keeps Grade 1 two-digit addition free of regrouping, so the Never setting matches the Grade 1 year and Always or Mixed belongs in Grade 2. Bundles of ten sticks or straws, tied with a rubber band, make the trade of ten ones for one ten easy to see before children carry on paper.
Word problems are part of every grade’s addition work. Children solve one-step problems in Grade 1 and one- and two-step problems in Grade 2, so once a sheet is done, ask them to make up a story for one of the sums, set at home, at school or at the sari-sari store.
Summarised in our own words from DepEd’s MATATAG Mathematics Curriculum Guide, Grades 1–10 (2023).
