About this game

Addition sentences up to 5

Addition sentences up to 5: a free Grade 1 math game for ages 6-7. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.

How it plays and why it helps

Here the sum comes first and the picture second, the reverse of most addition games. Addition sentences up to 5 shows a sentence such as 2 + 3 = 5 and two pictures, each with two boxes of things: soda bottles, chocolate bars, ears of corn, dolls, ducks. Your child taps the picture that matches. Five cards make a round in this Grade 1 game, the instruction is read aloud, and every answer is checked and explained in words: two plus three makes five.

An addition sentence is a story told in symbols: each number stands for one group, and the equal sign for the total. Matching the sentence to its picture checks that every symbol means something. Zero has its own picture too, five ducks beside an empty box for 5 + 0 = 5.

Often the wrong picture has the right total with the wrong parts. For 2 + 3 = 5, it shows 3 chocolate bars and 2 more; for 1 + 4 = 5, five ducks and nothing. Counting everything gives 5 both times. Ask, "How many in the first box?" Praise the close match: "You checked each box against each number."

Aligned with

  • 1.NBT.A.1 Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
  • 1.OA.C.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).

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