A secure understanding of additive reasoning supports pupils in taking their first steps in calculation. This page contains links to seven ‘question documents,’ each helping teachers to assess their confidence in a specific aspect of this area of maths.
All question documents for this area are available as a single zip file download after the individual questions. At the bottom of this page you can find a series of short videos giving advice on how some of the topics might be handled in the classroom.
How confident are you that you understand and can support children to use a part-part-whole model, to explain the structures of aggregation (addition) and partitioning (subtraction)?