MathsYears 5–6Addition & Subtraction

Mental arithmetic with large numbers

Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have a giant bag of 1000 marbles! That's a lot, right?

  2. 2

    If you have 3000 marbles and get 2000 more, how many do you have?

  3. 3

    Use the number line to add 3000 + 4000. Jump in thousands!

  4. 4

    Let's do one together: 6000 + 3000 = ?

  5. 5

    Now you try: 2000 + 5000 = ? Use the number line to check.

  6. 6

    What is 4000 + 4000?

  7. 7

    What is 9000 − 3000? (Subtract by jumping backwards in thousands!)

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