Unicorn's Magic Sums – Operations Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Wave your wand over adding, taking away, doubles and word problems in one sparkling sheet. This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with operations, with a friendly unicorn to guide them. It has a name, class and date box for students, the mindtested.com header and footer, and a teacher answer key on page 2.

What Questions Are in This Worksheet?

There are 4 activities worth 11 marks in total:

• Activity A: Doubles facts.
• Activity B: Subtraction using pictures.
• Activity C: A subtraction problem on a number line.
• Activity D: Two adding stories.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Number bonds that make 5, 10 and 20
• Using number lines and ten frames to add and subtract
• Reading short stories and writing the number sentence
• Adding two groups and finding the total

How to Use This Worksheet

1. Print the PDF on A4 paper (colour is best, but black and white works too).
2. Read each instruction aloud together before your child starts.
3. Let your child try every activity independently first.
4. Mark with the answer key on page 2 and talk through any mistakes.

Tip: five to ten minutes of regular practice works better for Grade 1 learners than one long session. Colour in the unicorn when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand, where learners add and subtract within 20, split numbers into number bonds and solve short number stories. Answer key included.