Addition & Subtraction
MA3-AR-01·Additive relationsA print-ready, no-prep Stage 3 (Years 5–6) addition and subtraction pack aligned to the NSW Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2022), outcome MA3-AR-01. Three differentiated worksheets — Support, Core and Extension — plus a real-world Apply It page and complete answer keys.
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Three levels, one outcome
Every student works on MA3-AR-01 — pitched to where they are.
Access the outcome with scaffolding
The grade-expected task
Stretch for those ready
What's included
- Cover page
- Teacher / About page with syllabus alignment and a star-level legend
- Support worksheet (★) — larger whole numbers with the written algorithm and round-and-adjust strategies
- Core worksheet (★★) — adding and subtracting decimals, with levelling and constant-difference strategies
- Extension worksheet (★★★) — decimals to thousandths, estimation and multi-step problems
- A full answer key for every worksheet
- Apply It — money, capacity and timing problems, including multi-step
- Apply It answer key
Built on the evidence
This isn't a worksheet dump. Every choice in this pack is grounded in what the NSW Department of Education says actually helps students learn.
Explicit teaching & worked examples
The Teacher/About page sets the learning intention and models the outcome with worked examples before students practise — the NSW explicit-teaching sequence of I do → we do → you do.
CESE What Works Best 2025 · Explicit teaching
Differentiation that manages cognitive load
Three tiers — ★ Support, ★★ Core, ★★★ Extension — let you pitch each task to a student's prior knowledge, protecting novices from overload while stretching those ready for more.
CESE · Cognitive load theory
Application & transfer
An Apply It page takes the skill into a real-world context, helping students build durable, connected schemas rather than isolated procedures.
NSW DoE · How learning happens
Syllabus-aligned & assessable
Mapped directly to NSW Mathematics K–10 (2022) outcome MA3-AR-01, with a full answer key for every task so you can check for understanding at a glance.
NESA · NSW Mathematics K–10 (2022)
CC BY 4.0 · Syllabus outcomes © NESA 2022