Description
Strengthen mental addition with the “Create a Double” strategy using these visual activity mats!
Students learn how to turn two addends that are two digits apart into a double, using clear visual supports to reform the numbers and confidently find the total. This approach helps learners move beyond counting toward efficient mental math strategies.
These mats are ideal for review and consolidation and work beautifully in both printable and digital classrooms.
What’s Included in This Pack:
- 12 Create a Double addition activity mats
- Additions ranging from 3+3 through to 15+15 (totals up to 30)
- Printable format for laminating and dry-erase use
- Digital version for use with Easel by TpT
Why Teachers Love These Mats:
- Teaches a powerful mental strategy for addition.
- Visual guidance supports understanding of how numbers can be restructured.
- Helps students transition from concrete support to mental computation.
- Perfect for review, consolidation and strategy reinforcement.
- Easy to prep and reuse across the year.
How Students Work with the Mats:
- Trace the numerals in the original addition problem.
- Use the visual model to reform the numbers into a double.
- Use the caterpillar square to support counting if needed.
- Create the double and find the total.
Suggested Classroom Uses:
- Add to math centres for independent or partner strategy practice.
- Project a mat on your interactive board for a shared math talk or warm-up.
- Use during guided math to explicitly model the Create a Double strategy.
- Send digitally for targeted practice or revision.
- Pair with manipulatives for students who need extra support before moving to mental math.
These Create a Double activity mats help students build confidence with addition strategies, making mental maths clearer, more efficient and far less intimidating.
You may also like our robot themed activity cards for this addition strategy
Find more of our Printable/Digital Activity Mats HERE
This resource is for single teacher classroom use only. Please remember that sharing, redistributing, creation of new materials for sale, or uploading to shared drives or websites is not permitted. Your respect for the one teacher, one license policy allows small teacher-creators like me to keep making resources for classrooms around the world. Thank you for your kindness and understanding!
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Description
Strengthen mental addition with the “Create a Double” strategy using these visual activity mats!
Students learn how to turn two addends that are two digits apart into a double, using clear visual supports to reform the numbers and confidently find the total. This approach helps learners move beyond counting toward efficient mental math strategies.
These mats are ideal for review and consolidation and work beautifully in both printable and digital classrooms.
What’s Included in This Pack:
- 12 Create a Double addition activity mats
- Additions ranging from 3+3 through to 15+15 (totals up to 30)
- Printable format for laminating and dry-erase use
- Digital version for use with Easel by TpT
Why Teachers Love These Mats:
- Teaches a powerful mental strategy for addition.
- Visual guidance supports understanding of how numbers can be restructured.
- Helps students transition from concrete support to mental computation.
- Perfect for review, consolidation and strategy reinforcement.
- Easy to prep and reuse across the year.
How Students Work with the Mats:
- Trace the numerals in the original addition problem.
- Use the visual model to reform the numbers into a double.
- Use the caterpillar square to support counting if needed.
- Create the double and find the total.
Suggested Classroom Uses:
- Add to math centres for independent or partner strategy practice.
- Project a mat on your interactive board for a shared math talk or warm-up.
- Use during guided math to explicitly model the Create a Double strategy.
- Send digitally for targeted practice or revision.
- Pair with manipulatives for students who need extra support before moving to mental math.
These Create a Double activity mats help students build confidence with addition strategies, making mental maths clearer, more efficient and far less intimidating.
You may also like our robot themed activity cards for this addition strategy
Find more of our Printable/Digital Activity Mats HERE
This resource is for single teacher classroom use only. Please remember that sharing, redistributing, creation of new materials for sale, or uploading to shared drives or websites is not permitted. Your respect for the one teacher, one license policy allows small teacher-creators like me to keep making resources for classrooms around the world. Thank you for your kindness and understanding!
