Addition and Subtraction Games
These free addition and subtraction games can help mental maths skills, particularly improving knowledge of number bonds to 10 and 20. Learning games can improve skills in adding and subtracting numbers because children can practise and have fun at the same time.
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.
Robot Addition
Robot Addition is a multiple choice addition game for 5 to 7 year olds. It has three game modes: Addition to 10, Addition to 15 and Addition to 20.
Addition to 10
A useful introduction to the concept of addition which features cute animals to count and a number line.
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 to 10
This game provides a simple introduction to the concept of subtraction. Each calculation features a subtraction within 10, along with a pictorial representation of the start number.
Helicopter Rescue
Great number square games which can help you with your addition and subtraction. Learn the language count on, count back, more than and less than.
Chopper Squad
A game which focuses on one more and less and ten more and less addition with the aid of number grids. It can help children learn two digit numbers and this game is a simpler version of our Helicopter Rescue game.
Blast Off
Blast Off is a mental maths game for 5 to 8 year olds which can help you to know your two digit numbers and help with addition and subtraction skills. It covers different vocabulary such as more than, less than, count on and count back.
Number Fact Families
Can you find all the number fact families? Just the thing for learning the relationship between addition/subtraction and multiplication/division.
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.
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.
Post Sorting
Sort the mail into the correct post boxes by working out simple addition, subtraction and division calculations as well as multiples.
Ways to Make
See how many ways you can put the teddies in the houses. This site will help you know your number bonds to 10.
Funky Mummy
Funky Mummy is a number facts game. Practise quick recall of addition, subtraction and multiplication facts.
Addition and Subtraction Facts
This is a brilliant animated resource for demonstrating addition and subtraction facts to 20. Super for number bonds and missing numbers.
Museum of Ten
A game to help you learn your number bonds to 10.
Alien Addition
A quick fire space invader type addition game. It is quite a challenge but will help you learn your number bonds to 20. Great for improving your mental maths skills.
Minus Mission
Quick fire subtraction sums against the clock. This is a space invader type game with subtraction sums less than 20. Just the thing to sharpen your mental maths skills.
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.
Fruit Splat Addition
7 levels of addition sums to solve. The levels go up to adding two digit numbers with regrouping. Splat the fruit with the correct answers. Vary the speed to give yourself more time.
Addition and Subtraction Ladder
Try the simple addition and subtraction sums to build your ladder. The examples include missing numbers or addends.
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.
Math Limbo
A timed addition game where you solve the equations by adding two single digit numbers and choosing the answer or by choosing an equivalent addition. It can be used to speed up your mental arithmetic skills. Different levels.
Snowman Sums
A winter themed addition game from ICT games. Find number bonds to match the target number.
Ten Frames
A very versatile teaching tool which has 5, 10, 20 and 100 frames or grids as the facility to make your own custom frame. It could be used for addition, subtraction as well as creating multiplication arrays.
Dice
This is a virtual dice manipulative where you can choose dice with dots or numbers and seemly as many as you want. A useful tool especially for adding 3 single digit numbers.
Two-Colour Counters
An interactive where you can choose both red and yellow draggable counters. The use is open-ended but ideas include addition, difference, multiplication and division.
Bee Hive - More and Less
In this game you need to identify one more and one less in numbers up to 10 and then 20.
100 Hunt
Find a number on a number square or work out 9, 10, 11 and 20 more or less. It is best displayed on full screen.
Save the Whale
Complete the number bonds to set the whale free. You can choose different totals up to 10.
Catch the Stars - Subtraction
Catch the stars in your bucket by working out the subtraction sums. Either subtract by mixed numbers or a single number up to 10. Be careful not to miss the stars.
Twilight Take-Away
Use the bar model to work out the differences in this subtraction game.
Dinosaur Dentist
Get the T-Rex to dance by using your knowledge of doubling facts to work out the 'near doubles' in this addition game.
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.
Handy Counters
A clever IWB teaching resource from ICT games which models subtraction in a way in which you can see the removed amount.
Number Spinners
This teaching resource from Mathsframe generates random numbers using ‘spinners’ with 3, 4, 5 or 6 sides. Up to three spinners can be used in many ways, such as generating addition, multiplication or up to three digit numbers.
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.
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.
Dartboard Addition
Use the image of a dartboard to reinforce addition. You can choose to reveal or input the answers.
ITP Beadsticks
Mathsframe has produced a beadsticks resource which can help with understanding place value, partitioning and modelling addition and subtraction.
