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Addition Strategies Worksheet

Help prepare for a community fun run by solving addition puzzles. Try a different strategy when it helps: bridge to a friendly number, split into hundreds, tens and ones, or use a number line. Show your thinking.

Choose a strategy

A friendly number can make addition easier. For example, 198 + 35 can become 200 + 33 = 233: move 2 from 35 to 198.

1.The organisers have 198 paper cups and buy 36 more. Use the friendly-number strategy: move 2 from 36 to 198, then add. How many cups are there altogether?

2.There are 247 blue race bibs and 135 red race bibs. Split 135 into 100, 30 and 5, then add the parts to 247. How many bibs are there?

3.A runner has travelled 126 metres and then runs 48 metres farther. Start at 126 on the number line. Make one jump of 40 and one jump of 8. Where does the runner finish?

4.The snack table has 289 apples and 113 oranges. Which is the best estimate for the total number of pieces of fruit?

About 300
About 400
About 500

5.Talia calculates 156 + 237 like this: 156 + 200 = 356, then + 30 = 386, then + 7 = 393. Is her answer correct? Write the correct total if needed.

6.The organisers packed 325 bottles in the morning and some more in the afternoon. They packed 400 bottles altogether. Complete the number sentence: 325 + = 400.

7.Match each addition sentence to its total.

230 + 45
198 + 27
289 + 27

8.The fun run starts with 178 donated drink bottles. A local shop adds 95 bottles and a family brings 27 more. Find the total. Show a strategy that makes the addition easier.

9.Write a fun-run addition story with two three-digit numbers. Solve it using a strategy you choose, and include the number sentence.