Addition as combining or putting together two
Mathematics · Addition & Subtraction · conceptual
Understand addition as combining or putting together two groups to find the total
What mastery looks like
- Model 'putting together' with physical objects and say the total
- Act out an 'add to' situation (e.g. 3 children arrive, then 2 more join)
- Explain that addition means finding how many altogether
Check your understanding
If Addition as combining or putting together two has 4 toy cars and a friend brings 3 more, do they understand that adding means combining both groups — and can they tell you there are now 7 cars altogether?
Prerequisites
Required first
Unlocks (9 directly)
- Numbers up to 10 into pairs
- Reading +, −, and = symbols
- Simple Fraction Sums
- Adding money and giving change
- Finding a missing number in addition
- Fluent adding and subtracting within 5
- Odd or Even
- Representing Addition and Subtraction
- Addition and subtraction strategies
- Multiplication as repeated addition
- Addition in any order
- Grouping numbers to add
- Spotting mathematical patterns
- Making Sense of Problems