Year 1 Addition Strategies Unit

Build confident, flexible addition thinking with a complete week of explicit teaching, hands-on games, differentiated practice and assessment.

Strategies for Addition supports Year 1 students to add within 20 using several connected strategies. Students learn to begin with the larger addend and count on, swap addends to simplify a calculation, make and bridge through 10, use doubles and near doubles, partition wholes, and select a strategy that fits the numbers.

The editable 18-slide presentation provides a clear teaching sequence with worked examples and guided practice. Three colourful games turn the key strategies into repeatable maths rotations. Five worksheet resources provide nine student practice pages, each with a matching answer page, followed by a two-page assessment and five-level rubric. The editable 22-slide quiz includes 10 question-and-answer pairs for whole-class review or checking understanding.

What’s Included

• 18-slide editable teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• 32-page unit plan and Table of Contents
• Addition Strategy Toolbox classroom display
• My Addition Strategy Steps reference card
• Count-On Garden Trail board and equation cards
• Make Ten Rainbow Match mat and number cards
• Part-Part-Whole Picnic mat and whole-number cards
• Nine worksheet pages covering counting on, making ten, doubles, part-part-whole models and addition stories
• Matching answer pages
• Two-page Addition Strategy Check assessment with answers
• Five-level Addition Strategy Check Rubric

Learning Focus

• Add numbers within 20
• Count on from the larger number
• Understand that addends can be swapped without changing the total
• Make 10 and bridge through 10
• Recall and apply doubles and near doubles
• Connect ten frames, number lines, drawings and part-part-whole models
• Choose and explain an efficient strategy

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit whole-class instruction, then rotate students through the three games and selected worksheets. The two-page worksheet versions allow teachers to scaffold learning across more than one lesson or use the second page for consolidation. Finish with the editable quiz, Addition Strategy Check and rubric.

Formats and Answer Support

Files are supplied in PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX formats. Answers are included for all nine worksheet pages and both assessment pages. Microsoft PowerPoint is required to edit the presentation and quiz.

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase grants the original purchaser a single-classroom licence. Files may be printed and used with the purchaser’s own students, but may not be resold, redistributed, shared publicly or uploaded to an openly accessible drive or website.