Addition and Subtraction Games
These addition and subtraction games make practising sums fun and enjoyable. They can help you to get quicker at working out answers mentally. As the sums change each time you play the games you will be able to keep practising to improve your addition and subtraction skills.
Hit the Button
Quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables and division facts against the clock. Superb!
Robot More or Less
Robot More or Less is a flexible addition or subtraction matching game for primary aged children, and is useful for developing mental maths skills.
Mental Maths Train
Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations.
Subtraction Grids
Can you meet the challenge to see how many subtraction calculations you can do in two minutes? There are different levels and you can choose either one or two missing numbers to make your number sentence correct.
Number Fact Families
Can you find all the number fact families? Just the thing for learning the relationship between addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. Includes a challenging level with addition and subtraction of negative numbers.
Daily 10
Daily 10 has maths questions on a range of maths concepts: addition, subtraction, ordering, partitioning, digit values, rounding, multiplication, division, doubles, halves and fractions. Great starter or plenary activity. Useful for mental maths.
Number Rack
A fantastic abacus type resource of moveable, coloured beads that encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens. It can help children to explore a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. Great IWB teaching tool.
Maths Invaders
Shoot the spaceship with the correct answer and dodge the incoming fire. A fun game to practise a wide range of key mathematical skills. There are over a hundred carefully differentiated levels.
Number Balance
Try your addition and multiplication calculations on this number balance by arranging the blue tags. Great for consolidating number bonds to 10. The free play option is useful as a teacher aid for demonstrating the commutative property of multiplication.
Guardians Defenders of Mathematica
A BBC Bitesize game where you pit your wits and mathematical skills against your enemies with weapons. Mathematical areas covered include: place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, algebra and more.
Fruit Splat Subtraction
Splat the fruit with the correct answer to the subtraction questions. There are 7 levels of difficulty including subtraction of two-digit numbers with regrouping.
Ten Frames - 1 to 100
This manipulative is great for demonstrating two-digit numbers, ten more or less, one more or less and addition of two digit numbers.
Fruit Splat - Compare Equations
Compare the addition, subtraction and multiplication equations by using the greater than, less than or equals to signs. Use either the timed or untimed mode.
Thinking Blocks Addition and Subtraction Problems
An excellent step by step tool for modelling addition and subtraction problems.
Deep Sea Dual
An addition strategy game which is either for one or two players. It is a game where the first person to choose cards with a specified sum wins.
The Column Method for Addition
Practise your column addition skills with the calculation already set out for you. The examples progress from the addition of two single-digits to questions with five digit answers.
Bingo - Addition
Useful for whole class addition mental maths for use on an interactive whiteboard. Levels are carefully progressive from single digit addition to HTU and TU addition. It can improve mathematical vocabulary. The decimal addition options are faulty.
The Difference Bar
Use a linear partitioning tool to help find the difference between pairs of two-digit numbers such as 25 and 34. The examples in the resource always have a difference less than ten. Useful as a teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.
