Missing Addends for Grade 1 | Fun Activities | Free Printable
Hello, first-grade students. Today we’re going to talk about missing addends for grade 1 in this article. Hope you will enjoy and spend a great time with us.
In a part-part-whole model like the following image, the top shows the total or whole, and the bottom represents the two parts that can be added together to make the whole. Sometimes, while completing activities or completing a puzzle, your youngster has to find some missing items like letters, numbers, or signs.
These activities help them to build their analytical and sensing ability. In the following section, you will find some fun activities to find missing addends for grade 1 that will provide your little champ more insight on this topic.
5 Fun Activities to Find Missing Addends for Grade 1 Students
Math is amazing! Don’t you think? For your little champ, it will be much easier to do the math based on real-life examples instead of just memorizing formulas and doing bookish math only.
So, to help you in this regard, we have some fun activities in the following section to find activities regarding missing addends for grade 1 students. Before practicing each activity, read the respective descriptions.
Activity 1: How Many Cats Are White?
Cats!!! One of the cutest and funniest animals you can have. One fine morning, you saw your father come home with eight cats in a basket. All of them are not the same in color. Three of the eight cats are brown. Others are white.
Our task is to find the number of white cats using missing addends.
Activity 2: Find the Number of Pink Balloons
On a fine summer morning, you and your family have gone to a fair in a nearby park. After going there, your father bought you 12 balloons of two different colors.
Now, among these balloons, the number of blue balloons is 5. To make your little sister more active in the calculation, you asked her to find the number of pink balloons.
Activity 3: Roll the Dice
Monopoly is a common indoor game and we enjoy it a lot while playing. To play tactfully and win you have to roll the two dice and add the numbers from the dice to move forward. Now, you are playing and about to win the game.
You are only six steps away from the finishing line. After rolling the dice, you have gotten 2 on one die. Now, the question is, how much do you need in the other die to finish the game?
Activity 4: Fill the Tray
The following image can contain 10 trays of hot chocolate mugs. Now, on a snowy evening, your mother is planning to serve all 10 guests some hot chocolate.
She put 7 mugs of hot chocolate in the tray. To serve all the guests, how many mugs does she need?
Activity 5: Sharing Is Caring
The last activity will be your favorite. Because it’s chocolate time. There are a total of 20 students in your class, and you are taking chocolates for the class party.
In the morning, you saw that your father had bought only 13 chocolates by mistake. Now, rectify the mistake and inform your father of the amount he should buy for you to take all 20 chocolates.
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In the above discussion, I have discussed various interesting games regarding missing addends for grade 1 students. These activities will help your students enhance their skills regarding these types of missing addends problems.
The free missing addends for grade 1 pdf is available for download below. You can download this practice sheet by clicking on the download button and printing it from your device.
Missing-Addends-Grade-1Please feel free to give any feedback regarding this article. Also, if your little one is having trouble doing these activities, let us know in the comment section.
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Hello, I am Araf. I have completed my B.Sc in Industrial and Production Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology. Currently I am working as a Content Developer for You Have Got This Math at Softeko. With proper guidelines and aid from the parent organization Softeko, I want to represent typical math problems with easy solutions. With my acquired knowledge and hard work, I want to contribute to the overall growth of this organization.
