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Step-by-step practice Maths textbook

Chapter 8: Adding and taking away within 10

  • Strand Addition and subtraction
  • Level Level 1
  • Practice 89 questions with step-by-step solutions

Step-by-step practice: maths (Level 1). Small steps, repeated until fluent. Content: Use a number bond to help with addition and with subtraction, See that addition and subtraction are linked, using fact families of three numbers, Find a missing number in a sum such as 4 + ? = 9 or 9 - ? = 4, Solve one-step word problems about adding or taking away, up to 10.

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By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Use one bond to write an addition fact and a subtraction fact
  • Use a family of three numbers to check sums
  • Find the missing number in a sum
  • Solve one-step stories about adding or taking away

You should already know

  • Adding within 10 (Chapter 6)
  • Taking away within 10 (Chapter 7)
  • Number bonds to 10 (Chapter 5)

Where this leads

  • Number stories within 20 (Level 1, Chapter 9)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 8.1 One bond, two kinds of sum
  2. 8.2 Fact families of three numbers
  3. 8.3 Finding the missing number
  4. 8.4 One-step stories: add or take away
  5. Summary and key words
  6. Check-up and practice test questions

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