Add and Subtract on a Number Line

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Add and subtract near multiples on a number line. Develop mental methods of addition and subtraction by adding and subtracting a multiple of 10 or 100, and then adjusting. For example add 29 by adding 30 and then subtracting 1.

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Game Objectives

New Maths Curriculum:

Year 2: Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and ones; a two-digit number and tens; two two-digit numbers;adding three one-digit numbers

Year 3: Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones; a three-digit number and tens; a three-digit number and hundreds

Primary Framework:

Year 2 Block A:

Add or subtract mentally a one-digit number or a multiple of 10 to or from any two-digit number; use practical and informal written methods to add and subtract two-digit numbers

Year 3 Block A:

Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers

Year 4 Block A:

Add or subtract mentally pairs of two-digit whole numbers