Addition sentences up to 5

1st grade (ages 6–7)

Choose the picture that shows 3 + 2 = 5: two children at a table with two cards, one with three pencils and two pencils, the other with ears of corn.

Addition sentences up to 5: your child chooses the picture of two groups of objects that shows the written addition. Free math game, ages 6-7.

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Teaching documentation of the game “Addition sentences up to 5”

About this game

Adding means putting two groups together: choose the picture that shows the written addition, up to 5.

Addition sentences up to 5: linking the calculation and the picture

A sentence like 2 + 1 = 3 stays abstract for a child in the first year of primary school. They have to understand that it tells a scene: two objects, then one more. Addition sentences up to 5 therefore link the + and = signs to a picture. Indeed, this link gives meaning to the calculation.

The game shows a written addition and reads it out loud. The child chooses the picture that shows it. Each picture has two boxes of objects. Sometimes a gray box is empty: it is worth zero. A game has 8 questions. A progress bar follows how the child is doing.

Before playing, recall a simple idea: adding means putting two groups together. For example, put two cakes here and one cake there. Then put them together while counting “one, two, three”. Finally, write 2 + 1 = 3 beside them. Do the same with an empty plate for 0 + 3.

This game is for children aged 6 to 7, in the first year of primary school. This way, addition sentences up to 5 become calculations the child can read. It works on computer, tablet and phone.

Tip for reading an addition up to 5 in a picture

Look carefully at the written addition. The first number is the left box. The second number is the right box. First, count the objects on the left. Then count the ones on the right. A gray, empty box is zero. Finally, choose the picture that goes with the addition. Both numbers must be right, on the left and on the right.