Using mental strategies to add and subtract

Add twenty and take one is much quicker than trying to add nineteen. But not always!

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Time for something different: true or false?

In these questions, you are told one fact about a sum. Write down three others without doing any more calculating.

Given one fact helps with working out similar facts.

Tricky set of in-out tables to complete. Decide whether to add or subtract.

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