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Missing Addend Challenge
4 Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets Mathematics Patterns & Algebras 2 Pages

Missing Addend Challenge

A great formative assessment tool to gather information and address misconceptions your students may have, related to finding unknowns. The challenge allows you to track students progress on the following concepts:

  • Part- Part- Whole Problems
  • Communitive Properties of + 
  • Fact Families
  • Inverse Operations
  • 1 step and 2 step problems involving unknowns

This resource has been created for a larger unit of work; Year 4- Missing Addends.

Answers have been included for your convenience.
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to find unknown quantities in number sentences involving addition and subtraction and identify equivalent number sentences involving addition and subtraction.
  • We are learning to find unknown quantities in number sentences involving addition and subtraction, using the properties of numbers and operations.

Curriculum alignment

MA2-1WM old Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas MA2-2WM old Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems MA2-3WM old Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used MA2-8NA old Generalises properties of odd and even numbers, generates number patterns, and completes simple number sentences by calculating missing values MA2-AR-01 new Selects and uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving 2- and 3-digit numbers MA2-AR-02 new Completes number sentences involving addition and subtraction by finding missing values MA2-MR-01 new Represents and uses the structure of multiplicative relations to 10 × 10 to solve problems MA2-MR-02 new Completes number sentences involving multiplication and division by finding missing values
VCMNA163 Use equivalent number sentences involving addition and subtraction to find unknown quantities VCMNA164 Define a simple class of problems and solve them using an effective algorithm that involves a short sequence of steps and decisions

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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