Foundation Addition & Subtraction Stories Variety Pack | 2 Maths Units

Build strong early addition and subtraction understanding with two complementary Foundation maths units. Students act out, model, draw, solve and explain practical number stories before connecting each situation to a simple number sentence.

Addition and Subtraction Stories develops a clear START–CHANGE–RESULT routine through counters, drawings, part-part-whole models, puzzles and games. Addition and Subtraction Stories with Role-Playing adds a playful picnic context with role-play mats, story cards and guided practice for recognising how many join, how many leave, how many there are altogether and how many remain.

Together, the units move from concrete action and oral language to pictures, symbols and independent problem solving. The editable teaching presentations support explicit modelling, while the editable quizzes provide whole-class review and immediate answer slides. Printable displays, hands-on materials, games, worksheets, assessments, matching answers and five-level rubrics make the collection flexible for whole-class teaching, maths rotations, intervention, partner work, role-play centres, assessment and home learning.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 2 complete printable unit-plan PDFs with 50 pages in total
• 2 editable teaching presentations with 34 slides in total
• 2 editable quiz decks with 44 slides in total
• 128 instructional pages and slides across the complete collection
• Addition and Subtraction Stories — Foundation
• Addition and Subtraction Stories with Role-Playing — Foundation
• Classroom displays for number-story steps and joining or taking away
• Reusable role-play and story mats
• Number Story Puzzle Match, Peg the Answer and Picnic Story Path games
• 13 printable worksheet pages covering drawing, modelling, matching, operation choice and original number stories
• 15 matching printable worksheet and assessment answer pages
• 2 two-page assessments with answer support
• 2 five-level marking rubrics

LEARNING FOCUS

• Recognise joining situations as addition and taking-away situations as subtraction.
• Represent practical stories with role-play, counters, drawings and part-part-whole models.
• Connect story actions and quantities to simple number sentences.
• Solve within 10 using counting or subitising strategies.
• Explain how a solution matches the original story.
• Create original addition and subtraction stories.
• Use optional challenge tasks to extend selected problems to 20.

CLASSROOM USE

Use the units as a connected Foundation sequence, choose the context that best matches your learners, or alternate activities across maths rotations and guided groups. The two distinct approaches provide additional practice without repeating an identical lesson sequence and support approximately two weeks of flexible teaching across short Foundation sessions.

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9MFN05; AC9MFN04

Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACMNA004; ACMNA002

Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2MFN05; VC2MFN04

New South Wales: MAE-CSQ-01; MAE-CSQ-02

Western Australian Curriculum: ACMNA004; ACMNA002

Common Core State Standards: K.OA.A.1; K.OA.A.2; K.OA.A.3; K.OA.A.4; K.OA.A.5; K.CC.B.4; K.CC.B.4.b; K.CC.B.5; K.CC.C.6; K.NBT.A.1

England / United Kingdom: UK-KS1-Y1-MATH-N-N; UK-KS1-Y1-MATH-N-A

New Zealand Curriculum: NZ-Y1-MATH-NUM-NS-1; NZ-Y1-MATH-NUM-NS-4; NZ-Y0-MATH-NUM-NS-5; NZ-Y1-MATH-NUM-OP-3; NZ-Y1-MATH-NUM-OP-4; NZ-Y1-MATH-NUM-OP-6

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills: GK-1A; GK-1C; GK-1D; GK-1E; GK-1F; GK-1G; GK-2I; GK-3A; GK-3B; GK-3C; TEKS-MATH-GK-1C; TEKS-MATH-GK-1D; TEKS-MATH-GK-1E; TEKS-MATH-GK-1F; TEKS-MATH-GK-1G; TEKS-MATH-GK-2I; TEKS-MATH-GK-3A; TEKS-MATH-GK-3B; TEKS-MATH-GK-3C

Ontario / Canada: CAN-GK-MATH-OE15; CAN-G1-MATH-B1.1; CAN-G1-MATH-B1.2; CAN-G1-MATH-B2.1; CAN-G1-MATH-B2.2; CAN-G1-MATH-B2.3; CAN-G1-MATH-B2.4

FORMAT AND ANSWERS

Digital bundle containing PDF unit plans and editable Microsoft PowerPoint teaching presentations and quizzes. Fifteen printable worksheet and assessment answer pages, quiz answer slides and two rubrics are included.

DIGITAL RESOURCE AND LICENCE

This is a digital teaching resource; no physical item is supplied. Purchase permits use by one teacher with their own classes. Files must not be resold, redistributed, shared publicly or uploaded to an unrestricted website or shared repository. Additional teachers require additional licences.