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Addition word problems up to 5

Addition word problems up to 5: a free Grade 1 math game for ages 6-7. Each round draws 8 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.

How it plays and why it helps

How many candies does a child have after Dad gives 3 and Mom gives 2? Addition word problems up to 5 tells ten tiny stories, candies, birds on a roof, cars in a parking lot, cakes from Grandma, and asks how many in all. The story is read aloud, your child taps a number from 1 to 5, and every answer is checked and explained as a sentence: 3 + 2 = 5. Eight stories make a round in this Grade 1 game.

Small numbers leave room for the real skill, turning a story into an addition. The hint says how: find the two numbers, hold up fingers for each, then count them all. Two stories include a zero, someone who gives nothing or sees nothing, which quietly teaches that adding 0 keeps the total.

The last number heard sticks. In the candy story, a child may tap 2, and it is right there among the choices. Retell the story with fingers and ask, "How many came from Dad?" Praise the retelling: "You held up both numbers and counted them all."

Aligned with

  • 1.NBT.C.4 Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
  • 1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

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