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TEKS Math Standard: 2.4.D

generate and solve problem situations for a given mathematical number sentence involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers within 1,000

Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Addition Gr 1-4
Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Subtraction Gr 1-4
Adding and Subtracting Fruit
Adding and Subtracting Fruit
Use super cute fruit to introduce algebraic thinking to your young math students.
Gr 1-3
Spring Math Worksheets: Addition and Subtraction
Spring Math Worksheets: Addition and Subtraction
Four sets of 2-digit and 3-digit addition and subtraction practice. But the unknown isn’t where you expect it to be!
Gr 2-5
Math Curiosity: Magic Triangles
Math Curiosity: Magic Triangles
Can you make each side of this triangle add up to 9 using the digits 1-6?
Gr 2-8
How Many Will There Be? Crosses
How Many Will There Be? Crosses
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Gr 4-7
How Many Will There Be? Pyramids
How Many Will There Be? Pyramids
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Gr 4-7
How Many Will There Be? Xs and Os
How Many Will There Be? Xs and Os
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Gr 4-7
Game: Number Scrabble
Game: Number Scrabble
What if we played Tic-Tac-Toe with numbers and instead of three-in-a-row, we add up to 15? Well… then we’d have Number Scrabble!
Gr 1-6
Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.
Gr 3-6
Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Single Solution)
Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Single Solution)
Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit subtraction.
Gr 3-6
Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit subtraction.
Gr 3-6
Math Curiosity: Goldbach’s Conjecture
Math Curiosity: Goldbach’s Conjecture
Can any even number be written as the sum of two primes? Goldbach thought so, but we haven’t proven it… yet!
Gr 1-5
Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction
Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction
When we’re adding and subtracting, do evens make odds into evens? Do odds make evens odd? Which one has… more power!?
Gr 3-4
How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus
How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Gr 3-5
How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1
How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Gr 5-6
Math Curiosity: Four Squares
Math Curiosity: Four Squares
Every positive integer can be written as the sum of (at most) four perfect squares!
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
Math Curiosity: Magic Squares
Math Curiosity: Magic Squares
Imagine a 3×3 square in which every row, column, and diagonal have the same sum. That’s a magic square!
Gr 1-4
Math Curiosity: Waring’s Conjecture
Math Curiosity: Waring’s Conjecture
So, can you write every odd (greater than 3) as the sum of three primes?
Math Curiosity: Primes and Squares
Math Curiosity: Primes and Squares
Can any perfect square be written as the sum of two primes?
Gr 2-4
Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture
Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture
Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!
Gr 1-4
The Game of 100
The Game of 100
Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?
Gr 2-7