Domino Addition

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is designed to teach young students basic addition through the use of dominoes. Each problem on the sheet features a domino with a different number of dots on each half, and the student is tasked with adding the two numbers together to find the sum. One example is already completed on the worksheet, showing the addition of 5 plus 2 to equal 7. There’s also a place at the top of the page for the student to write their name, indicating it is intended for personal use, likely in a classroom or home-schooling context.

The worksheet is teaching students to understand and apply the concept of addition in a visual and tangible way. By using the familiar game piece of a domino, it connects the abstract concept of addition to a concrete object that students may already understand and enjoy, thus making learning more engaging. It demonstrates that addition is simply the counting of all the dots together, which helps to solidify the students’ comprehension of how numbers combine to form larger numbers. This approach also introduces the fundamental skills necessary for more advanced mathematical concepts and encourages independent problem-solving.

Students will use the dots found on dominoes to prompt them to solve these sum based problems.