MathsYears 5–6Addition & Subtraction

Solve multi-step problems (Y5)

Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have a bag of 20 sweets 🍬. You give 8 to your friend, then buy 5 more. How many do you have now?

  2. 2

    What's the first thing you need to do in our sweet problem?

  3. 3

    Let's solve: 20 sweets − 8 sweets = ?

  4. 4

    Now you buy 5 more. What is 12 + 5?

  5. 5

    Try this one: Sara has 15 stickers. She gives 6 away, then finds 4 more. How many stickers does she have now?

  6. 6

    Sara had 15, gave away 6, then found 4. What's the answer?

  7. 7

    Which operation do you do FIRST in a multi-step problem?

Practise Solve multi-step problems (Y5) with Whizlo

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