Addition to 20 K-1 Cut and Paste

About this resource

Nine addition skills. Every one of them printed three times, at three levels of support, so the whole room can work the same page at the same time.

Twenty-seven cut-and-paste worksheets in one PDF. The cut pieces print on the child's own sheet, so nothing gets separated on the way to the desk.

How The Three Levels Work

Level 1: three problems, every one of them drawn. Counters sit in a ten-frame, dominoes carry pips you can touch and count, and the number line shows every hop already drawn as an arrow. There are exactly as many pieces on the strip as there are boxes, so there is no wrong piece to pick up.

Level 2: four problems. The pictures are still there but the cue is gone: no arrows on the number line, no hint under the domino. One spare number rides along on the strip and belongs to nothing.

Level 3: six problems, numerals only, nothing drawn. Sums cross ten, the blank moves to the front of the equation, and the doubles are shuffled out of order.

The level is printed on the child's sheet as a color tone and a row of dots and nothing else. No student page says "Level 1" in words a child reads, so the three levels look the same on the desk.

The Nine Skills, In The Order Students Actually Learn Them

1. Picture addition, sums to 5

2. Sums within 10, on a ten-frame

3. Counting on from a number, on a number line

4. Doubles

5. Near doubles: the double plus one

6. Making ten

7. Sums to 20

8. The missing addend

9. Turn-around facts

Pictures first, then counting on from the bigger number, then the doubles that make near doubles possible, then making ten, then sums past ten, and only at the end the two skills that need the equation understood rather than solved.

What A Page Looks Like

Every worksheet is one jar with the skill written on its lid and the problems inside it, and the cut pieces stand in a column beside the jar at card size, big enough for a six-year-old to cut and hold. Every number a student reads, on the row and on the card, is set large in clear, child-friendly print. The pictures are heavy black line drawings: the dominoes have real pips in the standard die layout, so a 9-9 domino carries every pip a student who does not yet know the fact needs to count; the number lines are drawn from their range, so 6 + 3 really does show the hops landing on the 9; the ten-frames fill from the left, so the total is the last square that has something in it.

The Pages That Show What They Really Understand

On the Level 3 missing-addend page the blank moves: three times it is the first number and three times the second. A student who has learned "the answer goes last" rather than what the equals sign means will come apart there, which is the point. And the turn-around pages are the only ones in the pack where the answer is an expression rather than a number: a student who glues 8 + 3 under 3 + 8 has understood something about addition, not just computed a sum.

What Is In The File

• 41 pages, one PDF
• 27 worksheets (9 skills x 3 levels)
• 6 section dividers for your binder
• 1-page teacher guide to the three levels, with what to do when a student is stuck
• 3 pages of answer keys, with the spare Level 2 piece named on every line
• Name and date line and a scissors line on every worksheet
• No page depends on color to be understood. The frames, the pictures and the numbers are drawn in heavy black line, so a grayscale copy works exactly as well as a color one and there is no separate B&W file to hunt for.

Who This Is For

Self-contained, resource and life-skills classrooms, early intervention, and any elementary room with a wide skill range in it. Also useful as a progress-monitoring set: a clean Level 3 in May beside a Level 1 in October is a data point you can put in a report.