Add Using Compensation: Make a Number Line Model #3

Test your skills with addition in this essential compensation worksheet! Students will be asked to solve six problems with two-digit addends. They can create a number line model to represent the compensation strategy by adding a multiple of ten, then subtracting in order to find the sum.

Created for second and third graders, this worksheet challenges students to show their understanding of addition with compensation by creating their own model. This method can strengthen students’ understanding of multiples of ten and rounding while improving their addition fact fluency. 

Don’t miss the previous two worksheets in this series: Add Using Compensation: Make a Number Line Model #1 and Add Using Compensation: Make a Number Line Model #2. Keep practicing addition with compensation in Add Using Compensation: Make a New Equation #1.