Addition with regrouping worksheets

Regrouping — carrying a ten to the next column — is the first genuinely mechanical skill in arithmetic, and the place where many children wobble. Every problem on these free printable sheets requires a carry, so no practice minute is wasted on easy sums.

Kid stuck on one? You don’t just get the sheet.

Ready for harder? The smudged sum — the total is given and two of the digits are not.

Addition with regrouping
Addition with regrouping worksheet — Every sum carries, free printable with answer key

The answer key prints on a separate page.

What's on this sheet

Most mixed worksheets only include a few regrouping problems per page, which means a child who struggles with carrying gets three chances to practice it and seventeen problems they already know. These sheets flip that: every sum on the page is one where the ones column overflows.

Why this sheet works

Sheets are available in horizontal or stacked (column) format. The stacked format mirrors how regrouping is taught in class, with the two addends aligned by place value and space above for the carried digit. Start stacked while the skill is new, then move to horizontal to build mental math.

How this one works

One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.

16 + 18

16=10+6
18=10+8
10+10=20
6+8=14
20+14=34
  1. 16 + 18, written across the line — so split each one into its tens and its ones, and add like with like.
  2. The tens together: 10 + 10 = 20.
  3. The ones together: 6 + 8 = 14. That is over ten, which is fine — it is a whole ten and some more, and it goes back in as one.
  4. Put the two parts back together: 20 + 14 = 34.