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Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Addition & subtraction
Subtraction Slip
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Can you spot the mistake in this video? How would you work out the answer to this calculation?
Fruity Pairs
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? Can you order the prices from lowest to highest?
Arranging Additions and Sorting Subtractions
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Order these four calculations from easiest to hardest. How did you decide?
Digit Addition
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?
Subtraction Surprise
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Try out some calculations. Are you surprised by the results?
Double or Halve?
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Throw the dice and decide whether to double or halve the number. Will you be the first to reach the target?
Five Steps to 50
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
Take Three Numbers
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?
Two Numbers Under the Microscope
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
This investigates one particular property of number by looking closely at an example of adding two odd numbers together.
Dotty Six
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.
Journeys in Numberland
Age 7 to 11
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Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.
The Add and Take-away Path
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Two children made up a game as they walked along the garden paths. Can you find out their scores? Can you find some paths of your own?
Pairs of Numbers
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
If you have ten counters numbered 1 to 10, how many can you put into pairs that add to 10? Which ones do you have to leave out? Why?
Follow the Numbers
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What happens when you add the digits of a number then multiply the result by 2 and you keep doing this? You could try for different numbers and different rules.
How Do You Do It?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.
Even and Odd
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
This activity is best done with a whole class or in a large group. Can you match the cards? What happens when you add pairs of the numbers together?
Sort Them Out (1)
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
Nice or Nasty
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Countdown
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Magic Vs
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
Oh! Harry!
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
How Much Did it Cost?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Sea Level
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
The picture shows a lighthouse and many underwater creatures. If you know the markings on the lighthouse are 1m apart, can you work out the distances between some of the different creatures?
Tug Harder!
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
In this game, you can add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers on the dice. Which will you do so that you get to the end of the number line first?
Tug of War
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
First Connect Three
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
Caterpillars
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?
Making Longer, Making Shorter
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?
The Twelve Pointed Star Game
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Have a go at this game which involves throwing two dice and adding their totals. Where should you place your counters to be more likely to win?
Diagonal Sums
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?
Number Differences
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
Ring a Ring of Numbers
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
Carrying Cards
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
These sixteen children are standing in four lines of four, one behind the other. They are each holding a card with a number on it. Can you work out the missing numbers?
Robot Monsters
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
A Mixed-up Clock
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
The Deca Tree
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
A Square of Numbers
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
1, 2, 3 Magic Square
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Arrange three 1s, three 2s and three 3s in this square so that every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total.
Totality
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
This is an adding game for two players. Can you be the first to reach the target?
Cubes Within Cubes
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3 cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?
Two Primes Make One Square
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you make square numbers by adding two prime numbers together?
One Wasn't Square
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Mrs Morgan, the class's teacher, pinned numbers onto the backs of three children. Use the information to find out what the three numbers were.
The Tomato and the Bean
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
At the beginning of May Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?
Abundant Numbers
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
48 is called an abundant number because it is less than the sum of its factors (without itself). Can you find some more abundant numbers?
Zios and Zepts
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Watch the Clock
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
During the third hour after midnight the hands on a clock point in the same direction (so one hand is over the top of the other). At what time, to the nearest second, does this happen?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.