How it works
- Choose the total, 10, 20, 100 or 1000. Every question looks like
7 + __ = 10: one number is given, the other is missing. - Choose how many questions, 10, 20, 30 or 40.
- Print the sheet. The answer key comes on a page of its own, so the sheet can be handed out without it.
- Or practise on screen. The same questions appear with a box for the answer, and each answer is marked as it is typed. There is no score and no clock.
- Keep the link. The address holds both the settings and the numbers, so the same link gives the same sheet again.
The bonds to ten
There are nine pairs: 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6, 5 and 5, and the same pairs the other way round.
A sheet of twenty questions asks each pair more than once, which is the point: the pairs should be known,
not counted out. With a total of 100 they are the bonds to a hundred, 37 + __ = 100, and with 1000 the
bonds to a thousand.
Why they matter
8 + 5 is easiest as 8 + 2 + 3: up to ten first, then the rest. That first step, knowing that 8 needs 2 to make 10, is a number bond. A child who knows the pairs can cross a ten without counting on their fingers, in addition and backwards in subtraction.
More ways to ask
The Ask as control also gives:
- Doubles,
6 + 6 = __. Up to 10 and up to 20 there are only five, so they come back on the sheet. - Missing number,
8 + __ = 13: the same idea as a bond, with any total in the range. - Bridge through ten,
8 + 5 = 10 + __. The first number is filled up to the next ten, and the answer is what is left of the second. Up to 100 it is38 + 5 = 40 + __.
The same choices are on the addition worksheets.