Year 1 Addition & Subtraction Story Problems Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Support Year 1 students as they learn to solve addition and subtraction story problems within 20. This ready-to-teach unit helps learners read a problem carefully, identify whether groups are joining or being taken away, model the situation, write a number sentence and explain the answer in context.

Students work through familiar classroom, picnic, playground and shopping contexts while building confidence with visual models and practical problem-solving strategies.

What’s Included

• Editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
• Editable 10-question quiz PowerPoint
• Colour Story Problem Solver classroom display
• Grocery Story Shop colour role-play activity
• Story Problem Trail colour game
• Five black-and-white worksheets: Picnic Addition Stories, Playground Subtraction Stories, Add or Subtract?, Draw It, Write It, Solve It, and Make Your Own Story Problem
• Red-answer pages for all meaningful worksheet tasks
• Story Problem Check-In assessment and answer page
• Five-level Year 1 marking rubric
• Final unit plan PDF

Learning Focus

• Recognise addition and subtraction situations
• Model story problems using pictures and practical materials
• Write matching number sentences
• Solve addition and subtraction problems within 20
• Explain answers in context

Classroom Use

Use the presentation and display for explicit teaching, then move into partner practice, maths centres, small-group work or independent consolidation. The assessment, rubric and editable quiz support review and evidence collection.

Aligned with Australian Curriculum v9.0 Mathematics content for additive thinking and mathematical modelling.

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