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Adding columns of numbers worksheets Grades 2–3

Add three or more numbers in one column problem, carrying as you go.

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How to do it

Add the ones column of every number, carry, then the tens, then the hundreds.

Example problems

  1. 43100364+ 295\begin{array}{r}43 \\ 100 \\ 364 \\ +\,295 \\ \hline \end{array}
  2. 5686+ 180\begin{array}{r}56 \\ 86 \\ +\,180 \\ \hline \end{array}
  3. 143306+ 228\begin{array}{r}143 \\ 306 \\ +\,228 \\ \hline \end{array}
  4. 278136+ 179\begin{array}{r}278 \\ 136 \\ +\,179 \\ \hline \end{array}

Three- and four-digit addition and subtraction

  1. Three-digit addition without carrying
  2. Three-digit addition, carrying from the ones
  3. Three-digit addition, carrying from the tens
  4. Three-digit addition, carrying twice
  5. Three-digit subtraction without borrowing
  6. Three-digit subtraction, borrowing from the tens
  7. Three-digit subtraction, borrowing from the hundreds
  8. Three-digit subtraction, borrowing twice
  9. Subtracting across zeros
  10. Four-digit addition and subtraction
  11. Adding columns of numbers