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Practise Your Addition: Add 1, 2 or 3 to a Number

In this worksheet, students will practise adding 1, 2 or 3 to a number to give a total (0-20).

'Practise Your Addition: Add 1, 2 or 3 to a Number' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 1

Year:  Year 1 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Addition and Subtraction

Curriculum subtopic:   Add and Subtract to 20

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

Addition is adding something on.

When you add everything together, you get a total.

 

sum on blackboard

 

Example

Look at this addition.

16 + 1 = ?

 

Answer

Start at 16 and count 1 forward.

What do you get then?

Use the number line below to help you.

16 + 1 = 17

 

number line up to 20

 

How about this one?

22 + 2 = ?

This time, we start at 22 and count 2 forward. Again, you can use the number line to help you.

22 + 2 = 24

 

Always move to the right on a number line when you are adding.

 

right arrow

 

cat and three kittens

 

If we add on 3, then we need to count forward 3 numbers:

19 + 3 = 22

 

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