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Addition worksheets with 2-color counters

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Looking for a way to use those 2-color counters? Try this simple addition activity!

These addition worksheets provide a hands-on way to create and record number sentences - free!

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Today I’m sharing a set of simple worksheets that your learners can use with 2-color counters. They’re perfect for helping students understand the concept of addition – and generate their own equations.

These addition worksheets provide a hands-on way to create and record number sentences - free!

I gave my Six (a mid-year kindergartener) a worksheet and a stack of 2-color counters. I showed him how we would use the counters to find different number sentences whose answer is 6.

First, I had him put a red counter and a yellow counter at the top right of the page. This is is so that he’d remember to record the number of red counters in the left column and the number of yellow counters in the right column.

These addition worksheets provide a hands-on way to create and record number sentences - free!

Next, he counted out six counters. Then he arranged them in different ways on the worksheet to make a total of seven number sentences.

These addition worksheets provide a hands-on way to create and record number sentences - free!

I asked him to choose which page he wanted to do next, and he chose this one. Again, he arranged the counters in different ways by flipping some of them over.

Ideas for use

  • Give a baggie of six counters to each child. Then pass out one worksheet to each learner. Your advanced learners can do a higher number, such as 9 or 10. Slower workers would do better with one of the smaller numbers.
  • Set the worksheets at a math center. Have students work alone or in pairs to complete as many pages as time allows.

I hope you get a chance to use these!

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26 Comments

  1. Jeannette

    September 27, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    I appreciate you sharing these but I think the 5 page has too many lines on it. There are only 6 possible ways to make 5 with the two color counters. I think you have 7 lines on the 5 page. I scratched my head a while over this one!

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    • Laura Cherney

      September 28, 2021 at 1:31 pm

      Thank you, Jeannette! It should be fixed now 🙂

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  2. Mercelyn Ikagishi

    September 7, 2020 at 5:34 am

    Great, this is so useful to us. Thank you so much. God bless you more.

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  3. brenda

    February 25, 2018 at 10:04 am

    wow! I love your resources. thanx so much ..bless you Anna

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    • Anna G

      March 2, 2018 at 7:24 am

      Thank you so much for the kind words, Brenda!

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  4. Fathimath Afaf

    February 24, 2018 at 1:11 am

    Very good activities.
    Thank you

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    • Anna G

      March 2, 2018 at 7:26 am

      You’re welcome, Fathimath!

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  5. johnson

    February 23, 2018 at 7:14 am

    great job .

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    • Anna G

      February 24, 2018 at 9:08 am

      Thank you!

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    February 22, 2018 at 6:26 am

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      February 23, 2018 at 9:18 am

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      February 21, 2018 at 8:59 pm

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  8. Debbie

    February 19, 2018 at 11:54 am

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    • Anna G

      February 23, 2018 at 9:11 am

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  9. Amy

    February 18, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    Thank you so much for all your great resources! You Rock!

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    • Anna G

      February 23, 2018 at 9:09 am

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  10. Josette

    February 18, 2018 at 11:59 am

    Superb hands on manipulates

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    • Anna G

      February 22, 2018 at 6:02 pm

      Thank you, Josette!

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  11. Akanksha

    February 18, 2018 at 8:42 am

    Thank you ❤️

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    • Anna G

      February 22, 2018 at 6:59 am

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  12. Shakera

    February 18, 2018 at 6:36 am

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