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Adding and Subtracting 2-digit Numbers

In this unit, children will be able to recognize addition as combining two or more groups to find a total.
They will use pictures and place value blocks to demonstrate adding groups of tens and units.

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Lesson Overview

In this unit, children will be able to recognize addition as combining two or more groups to find a total.
They will use pictures and place value blocks to demonstrate adding groups of tens and units.

Curriculum Alignment: Year 2 Number: Addition and subtraction

  • Solve problems with addition and subtraction:
    • using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures
    • applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
  • Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100
  • Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:
    • a two-digit number and 1s
    • a two-digit number and 10s
    • 2 two-digit numbers
    • adding 3 one-digit numbers
  • Show that addition of 2 numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of 1 number from another cannot
  • Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems
Last updated on: February 25, 2026

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