Multi-Digit Addition with Partial Sums | 3–5 Digit Math Centers & Practice

Looking for an engaging way to help students master multi-digit addition using partial sums? This hands-on math activity provides scaffolded practice with 3–6 digit numbers, making it perfect for math centers, small groups, or intervention.

Add Multi-Digit Numbers: Add It Up! is a hands-on math activity designed to help students practice adding multi-digit numbers using the partial sums strategy. Students roll dice to create their own addition problems and are guided step-by-step through breaking numbers apart by place value to find the sum.

This resource provides structured scaffolding that supports conceptual understanding while allowing students to progress from 3-digit to 6-digit addition at their own pace.

Skills Addressed:

• Multi-digit addition
• Partial sums
• Place value (hundreds, tens, ones)
• Math reasoning and number sense
  

What’s Included:

• Detailed Vocabulary Anchor Chart Support
• Scaffolded game board-style practice pages
• Example page for modeling
• Practice with 3-digit through 6-digit numbers
• Printable and reusable format (laminate or use with sheet protectors)
  

Classroom Uses:

• Math centers
• Small groups
• Independent practice
• Intervention or spiral review
  

🎲 No dice? No problem! A link to virtual dice is included.

Grades: 3–5
Format: PDF

Standards-Based Skills Addressed:

• Place value understanding
• Breaking numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones
• Using strategies (partial sums) to add multi-digit numbers
• Mathematical reasoning and procedural fluency
  

✨ This resource is ideal for instruction, practice, remediation, or spiral review of place value–based addition strategies.

Supports and Reinforces: multi-digit addition, partial sums, addition strategies, place value addition, 3 digit addition, 4 digit addition, 5 digit addition, 6 digit addition, math centers, addition practice, upper elementary math, addition with regrouping, math intervention, printable math activity, scaffolded math, number sense

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