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Addition and subtraction test

Facts to twenty, then columns, then the stories that use them.

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Facts within twenty come first because everything after depends on them being automatic rather than worked out. A child counting on fingers through section 1 will be slow in section 2 for a reason that has nothing to do with columns — each column is a fact, and a page of columns is twenty of them.

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The column section is where regrouping shows up, and where the reliable error is subtracting the smaller digit from the larger regardless of which is on top: 52 − 27 answered as 35 is not a slip, it is a rule being applied consistently in the wrong direction.

The sections on this paper

  1. Add, subtract, multiply, divide8 questions
  2. Add and subtract multi-digit numbers6 questions
  3. Word problems4 questions

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