Double Digit Addition Without Regrouping

Clear practice for growing mathematicians

This set gives children repeated practice with adding two-digit numbers without carrying to the next place. The pages can include number sentences, place-value layouts, missing numbers, and simple visual support. Younger children can begin by adding the ones and tens with counters or drawn marks. Older children can work through mixed sums and explain how they found each answer. Start with sums that have friendly numbers, then move to less familiar combinations while checking that the ones and tens totals remain within 9.

Use the worksheets with support and choice

At home, complete a few sums together first, then let your child try a short row independently. Keep ten buttons, bottle tops, or toy blocks nearby so your child can build the tens and ones when needed. In class, use the worksheets for morning work, small-group practice, or a quiet maths station. Ask children to compare two methods, such as drawing tens and ones or adding the ones before the tens. Let children colour a box after checking each answer.

Help children keep the place values in order

A common mistake is writing the ones digit under the tens digit, which changes the value of the sum. Ask your child to line up the numbers carefully and place a small dot under each ones column if that helps. Some children add the tens first but forget to add the ones, while others read 24 as 2 and 4 without seeing the two tens. Encourage them to say the sum aloud as tens and ones, then check the answer with blocks, a number line, or the inverse subtraction.