Extension Questions | Addition And Subtraction | Year 5

Deepen and develop your Year 5 pupils' understanding of addition and subtraction with these extension questions.

These 10 extension questions have been designed to allow pupils to go further in their understanding of addition and subtraction with a range of reasoning and problem solving questions.

This resource can be used as part of an extension activity for individual pupils or pairs or as part of a whole class discussion. Some teachers also set the extension questions as a homework activity or to provide additional challenges outside the classroom.

For those taking a maths mastery approach to teaching within a mixed ability class these extension questions are invaluable at allowing all pupils to work towards mastery of addition and subtraction.

This resource was created in response to teachers wanting more interesting and complex questions for their pupils, but also knowing that these questions take a long time to create.

We’ve now done the work so you don’t have to!

Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

What to expect from these Year 5 addition and subtraction extension questions

• Drawing pictorial representations to show the difference and sum in given subtraction and addition problems.
• Writing word problems for specific addition and subtraction calculations.
• Identifying the odd one out in a set of addition problems based on the result.
• Solving and proving answers for missing number problems in addition and subtraction equations.
• Discussing whether a statement about the divisibility of sums of consecutive numbers is always, sometimes, or never true.
• Creating and solving missing digit problems and explaining the methods used.