Teaching resources for parents and teachers

Whole Numbers Worksheets and Teaching Notes

Choose a skill for the child you teach. Read the teaching notes, work through an example together, then print a worksheet and a separate answer key. Grade labels are a guide; use earlier skills when your student needs more support.

• Addition Worksheets Within 20

  Help your student move from counting every object to counting on or making ten.

• 2-Digit Addition Worksheets Without Regrouping

  Use this worksheet to teach place value before introducing regrouping.

• Multiplication Worksheets: Equal Groups and Facts

  Teach multiplication with equal groups before asking your student to recall facts.

• Subtraction Within 10 Worksheets

  Introduce subtraction by showing what is taken away and what remains.

• 2-Digit Subtraction Without Regrouping Worksheets

  Use tens and ones to teach subtraction without regrouping.

• 2-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Worksheets

  Show your student that regrouping changes how a number is represented, not its value.

• Missing Addends Within 20 Worksheets

  Teach the blank as an unknown part of a total.

• 2-Digit Addition With Regrouping Worksheets

  Teach regrouping in addition as an exchange of ten ones for one ten.

• Division Within 100 — No Remainders Worksheets

  Teach both meanings of division: equal sharing and making equal groups.

• Addition & Subtraction Word Problems Within 20

  Help your student connect an addition or subtraction story to an action.

• Multiplication & Division Word Problems

  Teach your student to identify the groups, group size, and total before calculating.

• Addition and Subtraction Word Problems: Unknown Starting Number

  Help your student work backward from an ending total to an unknown starting amount.

• More and Fewer Word Problems

  Use matching rows of counters to teach more-than and fewer-than comparisons.

• Word Problems With Extra Information

  Teach your student to select information based on the question.

• Money Word Problems: Finding Cents Spent

  Use this worksheet to teach an unknown amount spent, rather than coin identification.

• Word Problems Within 100

  Separate understanding the story from carrying out the calculation.

• 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction Worksheets Within 1,000

  Use place-value models to teach addition and subtraction within 1,000.

• Word Problems Within 1,000

  Help your student recognize familiar story structures when the numbers get larger.

• Choose an Equation Word Problems

  Teach your student to choose an equation by identifying what is unknown.

• Bar Model Word Problems

  Use bar models to make the relationship between a whole and its parts visible.

• Same Numbers, Different Word Problems

  Help your student see why the same numbers can require different operations.

• Explain Your Thinking Word Problems

  Use these problems to discuss reasoning as well as answers.

• Find and Fix the Mistake Word Problems

  Teach students to check a proposed solution against the question.

• Write Your Own Question Word Problems

  Help your student write a question that can be answered from the story.

• Multi-Digit Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

  Teach large-number word problems by separating the situation from the arithmetic.

• 2-Digit Multiplication Word Problems

  Connect two-digit multiplication to rectangular area.

• 4-Digit Division Word Problems

  Teach students to interpret a remainder in the context of the story.

• 4-Digit by 1-Digit Multiplication Word Problems

  Use an area model to explain multiplication with a four-digit factor.

• 4-Digit by 2-Digit Division Word Problems

  Teach division with two-digit divisors using estimates and labeled groups.

• 3-Digit by 2-Digit Multiplication Word Problems

  Use partial areas to explain three-digit by two-digit multiplication.

• Adding Four 2-Digit Numbers Word Problems

  Teach flexible grouping when adding four two-digit numbers.

• Multiplying by Multiples of 10 Word Problems

  Connect multiplication facts to groups of ten.

• Adding and Subtracting Tens Word Problems

  Teach addition and subtraction of tens by counting groups of ten.

• Factors and Factor Pairs Word Problems

  Teach factor pairs by arranging a fixed collection into complete rows.

• 2-Digit Plus 1-Digit Addition Word Problems

  Help your student add ones to a two-digit number using a strategy that fits.

• Two-Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

  Teach students to track two changes in one story.

• Two-Step Multiplication and Subtraction Word Problems

  Help your student use an intermediate product in a two-step problem.

• Division Word Problems: Vans Needed

  Teach students to decide whether a remainder requires an additional group.

• Missing Part Word Problems Within 100

  Teach a missing part as the amount needed to complete a known whole.

• Equal Groups Division Word Problems

  Help your student distinguish equal sharing from finding the number of groups.

• Difference Word Problems Within 20

  Teach a difference by matching two collections.

• How Many More? Word Problems

  Show how counting on finds the amount needed to reach a target.

• Difference Word Problems Within 100

  Use comparison models to teach differences with larger numbers.

• Multiplicative Comparison Word Problems

  Distinguish times-as-many comparisons from additive comparisons.

• Comparing Numbers Worksheets: 3-Digit Numbers

  Teach three-digit comparison from the greatest place value.

• Place Value Worksheets: 3-Digit Expanded Form

  Use expanded form to show the value represented by each digit.

• Place Value Worksheets: Tens and Ones Expanded Form

  Teach a ten as a group of ten ones.

• Rounding Worksheets to the Nearest 10 and 100

  Teach rounding by comparing distances to neighboring multiples.

• Comparing Numbers Worksheets: Large Whole Numbers

  Teach large-number comparison with aligned place-value columns.

• Comparing Numbers Worksheets: 2-Digit Numbers

  Teach two-digit comparison by comparing tens before ones.

• 10 More and 10 Less Worksheets

  Show how adding or subtracting ten changes a number's groups.

• Addition Equations Worksheets: True or False

  Use true-or-false equations to teach the meaning of the equal sign.

• Missing Number Worksheets: Factors and Dividends

  Teach students to locate the unknown before choosing a related fact.

• Factors and Multiples Worksheets: Prime and Composite Numbers

  Use factor pairs to distinguish prime and composite numbers.

• 10 or 100 More and Less Worksheets

  Teach changes of ten or one hundred using place-value units.

• Number Names Worksheets: 3-Digit Numbers

  Connect number names to place value, including unspoken zeros.

• Kindergarten Addition and Subtraction Worksheets Within 5

  Introduce addition and subtraction within five through actions with objects.

• Kindergarten Addition and Subtraction Word Problems Within 5

  Read these short stories aloud and let your student act them out.

• Count and Write Worksheets for Kindergarten

  Teach one-to-one counting by matching one spoken number to one picture.

• Comparing Groups Worksheets for Kindergarten

  Use matching pairs to compare groups without relying on spacing.

• Count and Circle Worksheets for Kindergarten – Free Printable Activities

  Teach selecting a given number from a larger collection.

• Number Word Matching Worksheets for Kindergarten – Free Printable

  Keep the math accessible while introducing number words.

• Ordering Numbers Worksheets for Kindergarten – Smallest to Largest

  Use movable cards or objects to teach ordering three numbers.

• Before and After Numbers Worksheets for Kindergarten – Free Printable

  Teach before and after as one step in the counting sequence.

• Missing Numbers on a Number Line Worksheets for Kindergarten

  Help your student use the labels already shown on a number line.

• Ten Frame Worksheets: Making 10 for Kindergarten

  Use a ten-frame to show the missing part of ten.

• Make 10 Missing Addend Worksheets for Kindergarten

  Connect a missing-addend equation to a model of ten.

• Missing Part Number Bonds Worksheets Within 9

  Teach a number bond as two parts of one pictured whole.

• Ordinal Number Worksheets for Kindergarten — First to Eighth

  Distinguish an object's position from the number of objects.

• Kindergarten Addition and Subtraction Word Problems Within 10

  Extend familiar joining and taking-away stories to quantities within ten.