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Addition Noughts and Crosses

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to play games to practise adding one more to different numbers to five, ten and twenty using concrete equipment to model each of the addition calculations needed to win the game.
The class can practise using counting on from the biggest number to support each addition number calculation when finding the matching sums.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to play games to practise adding one more to different numbers to five, ten and twenty using concrete equipment to model each of the addition calculations needed to win the game
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets and sets of cards to play games to identify the matching sums that are one more than numbers to five for support ability levels, to ten for core ability levels and to twenty for extension ability.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to play games to practise adding one more to different numbers to five, ten and twenty using concrete equipment to model calculations.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to identify and model some of the skills and techniques that can be used when adding pairs of numbers by playing different games. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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