Bottle Top Column Addition

Bottle Top Column Addition

Aim of the Game:

This activity uses milk bottle tops to help practise column addition.

What do you need?

How to Play:

  • Add place value labels to the board (shown above) and select some milk bottle tops to use for the addition question.
  • Starting with the ones column, children add the digits together and find the corresponding milk bottle top number they need.
  • Continue until the calculation is complete.

The photos below show how you could challenge the children more once they get to grips with it by turning it into a missing digit question. This really helps them to consolidate their understanding of the concept of written addition and place value.