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Mental Addition

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Mental Addition

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Year 1
​Beginning: "She is beginning to add and subtract numbers mentally, including two single-digit numbers, and a number up to 20 and a single digit number."
Meeting: "She adds and subtract numbers mentally, including two single-digit numbers, and a number up to 20 and a single digit number."
Consolidating: "She rapidly adds and subtract numbers mentally, including two single-digit numbers, and a number up to 20 and a single digit number."

​Year 2
​​Beginning: "She adds and subtracts two-digit and three single-digit numbers to 20, including zero."
Meeting: "She adds and subtracts numbers mentally, including: a two-digit number and a single-digit number; a two-digit number and a multiple of ten; two three-digit numbers, not bridging a ten; and adding three single-digit numbers."
Consolidating: "She adds and subtracts numbers mentally, using appropriate strategies, including: two three-digit numbers; and adding and subtracting several single-digit numbers."

​Year 3
​​Beginning: "She is beginning to add and subtract numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and a single-digit number, a multiple of 10 or a multiple of 100."
Meeting: "She adds and subtract numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and a single-digit number, a multiple of 10 or a multiple of 100."
Consolidating: "She confidently adds and subtract numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and a single-digit number, a multiple of 10 or a multiple of 100."

​Year 4
There are no Year 4 statements

Year 5
​​Beginning: "She is beginning to add and subtract larger numbers mentally."
Meeting: "She adds and subtracts larger numbers mentally."
Consolidating: "She adds and subtracts larger numbers mentally with increasing confidence"

Year 6
​​Beginning: "She is beginning to add and subtract increasingly large numbers mentally."
Meeting: "She adds and subtracts mentally with increasingly large numbers."
Consolidating: "She can add and subtract with more than two large numbers mentally."
Teaching Children to Calculate Mentally - UK Department for Education
Mental Maths Tests Guidance (in the 'Resources and Tests' tab)

Year 1

Resources
Single Digit Dice Addition to 9 Sheet 1
Single Digit Dice Addition to 9 Sheet 2
Single-Digit Addition to 9 - 50 (Horizontal) questions

Tests
Year 1 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Michaelmas term
Year 1 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Lent Term
Year 1 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Trinity Term

Single-Digit addition across 10 (Horizontal)
Single-Digit addition across 10 (Vertical)
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Fact Families to 10 (Addition and Subtraction)

Fact Families to 20 (Addition and Subtraction)
Addition - Two-Digit Plus One-Digit Through 20
Single-Digit Subtraction Less Than 5 (Vertical)
Single-Digit Subtraction Less Than 10 (Vertical)
Subtraction Upto 20 (Single-Digit)
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Subtraction - Two-Digit minus One-Digit Through 10
Subtraction - Two-Digit minus One-Digit Through 20




Year 2

Resources
Tests
Year 2 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Michaelmas Term
Year 2 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Lent Term
Year 2 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Trinity Term

Year 3

Resources
Tests
Year 3 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Michaelmas Term
Year 3 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Lent Term
Year 3 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Trinity Term

Year 4

Resources
Tests
Year 4 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Michaelmas Term
Year 4 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Lent Term
Year 4 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Trinity Term

Year 5

Resources
Tests
Year 5 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Michaelmas Term
Year 5 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Lent Term
Year 5 Mental Maths Tests (x6) - Trinity Term

Year 6

Resources
Tests
Year 6 Mental Maths Tests - Michaelmas Term
Year 6 Mental Maths Tests - Lent Term

Web-based teaching resources (free)

Simple addition stories (Ages 5-7)
Drag, drop and count!
​Building expressions (Ages 5-7)
Excellent for finding missing numbers in sums. Lots of flexibility to suit children of different ability.
Alien Pairs to 10 (Ages 5-7)



Web-based games (free)

Alien Addition (Ages 5-7)
Number bonds to 20
Number Pyramid (Ages 5 -7)
Superb BBC bitesize game with brilliant graphics. Excellent for missing number problems
Rock Hopper (Ages 5-7)
Terrific problem solving game with numbers less than 20
Maths Magician (Ages 5-11)
All operations, but excellent for rapid-fire addition. Lots of differentiation is possible
Powerlines (Ages 7-11)
A challenging game where lines of numbers need to add to a given total - addictive!

Videos

Adding the same numbers in a different order song (Ks1)
Different ways to achieve the same answer (Ks1)
Working out the difference by counting on (Ks1)
Adding near doubles less than 20 (Ks1)
​Adding near doubles (Ks1/2)
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Adding three numbers song (Ks1/2)
Mentally adding two and three digit numbers together (Ks2)



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