Column Addition with Five- and Six-Digit Numbers

Year 5 MathsAddition and Subtraction4 pages

About this worksheet

Column addition with numbers up to 999,999 for Year 5, over three pages and an answer page. Section 1 has eight five-digit additions, and the first four need no carrying. Section 2 has eight six-digit additions, such as 496,875 plus 387,659, followed by four three-number sums. Section 3 turns the method around: pupils find a missing digit in six finished calculations, then explain why 45,678 plus 54,322 is exactly 100,000. The answers give every total, each missing digit and a model explanation.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Number - addition and subtraction

โ€œAdd and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)โ€

All 26 calculations use five- or six-digit numbers, and Section 2 carries across several columns.

What's inside this worksheet

Section 1, Five-Digit Addition

Eight additions from 23,412 + 15,263 to 68,759 + 24,875, each with a box for working. Questions 1 to 4 have no carrying.

Section 2, Six-Digit and Three-Number Addition

Eight six-digit pairs that carry across several columns, then four sums of three numbers, two of them with six digits.

Section 3, Missing Values and Reasoning

Six calculations with one digit missing, such as 4_6,738 + 285,496 = 742,234, and a short written question on a pair that makes 100,000.

Answers

Totals for all twenty additions, the six missing digits and a model explanation: each column makes 9 plus a carried 1.

How teachers use it

Carry check

After Section 1, ask pupils what changed between questions 4 and 5. Question 5 is the first that needs a carry.

Missing digits in pairs

Do Section 3 in pairs. One pupil finds the digit, and the other checks it by adding the full calculation.

Bonds to 100,000

Use question 7 to open a lesson on bonds to 100,000. Pupils make their own pairs like 45,678 and 54,322 and test them in columns.

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