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Practise Adding Three Numbers

In this worksheet, students will add three numbers to find a total using a number line.

'Practise Adding Three Numbers ' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 3 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Addition and Subtraction

Curriculum subtopic:   Solve Add/Subtract Problems to 1000

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

This activity is about adding three numbers to find a total.

 

Example

 

box of sweets
40 sweets 
box of sweets
29 sweets 
box of sweets
21 sweets 

 

How many sweets are there altogether?

 

Answer

We can work out 40 + 29 + 21  on the number line below.

 

 

number line to 100

 

We start at 40 and move forward 29 to 69, then we move forward 21 to get to 90.

 

The answer is 90 sweets

 

There are many ways of adding numbers, but we are going to practise this method in the following questions. 

 

Are you ready to have a go?

 

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