There are two sets of ten questions on each of the four pages of these resources, which can be used as a quick assessment as to how well addition has been learnt. The questions cover addition of two single digit numbers.

There are several stages to go through when learning these facts.

Firstly, to use number lines or fingers to count on.

Secondly, to realise it is usually better to start with the larger number.

Thirdly, to begin to internalise some of the facts so that they are known.

Fourthly, to know them all ‘off by heart’. You will know when your child has reached this fourth stage when it only takes them 10 seconds to complete the 10 questions!

Year 1 addition: Brainwhizz challenge

All the excitement of Christmas is over but New Year is a great time for your child to make some resolutions, and who knows we might even get some snow! Here are four fun maths pages for your child to try with a theme of the new year.

This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our New Year Maths Worksheeets

This maths worksheet contains a straightforward set of questions on dividing 2-digit numbers by ten, with remainders. It is aimed at children in Year 2 who are just getting to grips with division and know their ten times table.

The best way to do these is to go through the ten times table until the nearest whole ten below the number is found, then add on to reach the remainder. When dividing by ten the remainder can never be greater than ten.

Divide by 10 with remainders

With Christmas coming up very soon this is the final set of pages in our mini series on subtraction for year 2, which looks at subtracting a pair of multiples of 100.

They show how important it is for children to learn their number bonds to 10, that is, they should know off by heart all possible additions and subtractions of single digits. Knowing this makes subtracting whole hundreds very easy, eg knowing that 8 – 3 is 5 means you can easily work out that 800 – 300 is  500.

Subtracting whole hundreds

Sometimes the easiest way to carry out a subtraction question is to do it by counting up, or adding on, from the smaller number to the larger number. This is often the case when the two numbers are close to each other but either side of the hundreds boundary.

For example, 102 – 97 can be done by adding on 3 to 97 to make 100 and then another 2 to make 102. Altogether 5 has been added on. Children may well use their fingers to help do this – there is nothing wrong with that!

Subtract numbers either side of 100

When children are very confident with counting in ones and they have also worked with larger numbers in the teens, they can be introduced to counting up in whole tens. At first this will be up to 100. These four worksheets give plenty of practice at writing the whole tens that come before and after others. This, of course, is very similar to counting from one to ten, but don’t say that a nought has been added: much better to say the units digit has moved one place to the left and a nought has been placed in the units.

Follow the dogs leads to complete the number lines in whole tens up to 90.

Go to our resources: Counting in whole tens

A much harder set of questions on these four worksheets. This time we are looking at taking away 19 from 2-digit numbers. Usually the easiest way to do this is to subtract 20 and then add one to the answer. If the number has a 9 in the units it is probably easier to just subtract the 19 in one go.

Traditionally it might have been expected to resort to written methods to do this but the new Primary Framwork for Maths is very keen on children been quick and able mentally before they start to work anything out on paper.

Subtract 19 from 2-digit numbers

When subtracting 11 from a number often the easiest way is to subtract 10 and then count back one. Some people prefer to subtract the unit first and then the ten. The same can be said for subtracting 21: subtract 20 and count back one.

These pages are good practice for children just getting to grips with tens and units and as they are comparatively easy are excelent confidence boosters.

Subtract 11 or 21 from 2-digit numbers

Here we have an excellent set of four maths worksheets introducing subtraction of both tens and units. There is no ‘decomposition’ involved; in other words the units to be taken away are always smaller than or equal to the units of the number.

Interestingly, most adults who do this ‘in their heads’ start by taking the tens away and then the units, which is the opposite of the way we do it on paper. Certainly starting with the tens when working mentally is a good strategy to use.

Subtracting tens and units (no decomposition)

By Year 2 most children will be very familiar with number squares, which help them count on and back. This set of 4 maths worksheets uses parts of a number square to check children’s ability to count on. It takes a 4 by 3 section and leaves most of the squares blank for the child to fill in.

it is interesting to watch how children tackle this type of problem as it can involve counting on and back in ones as well as in tens (moving up or down).

These worksheets can be found in Counting and Number in the Superbrains section.

Go to our Position numbers on a number square worksheets