Name: Near Doubles Worksheet
Brand: Mrs Edgar
Availability: InStock

Doubles plus one addition worksheet designed to help students use doubles facts as a mental maths strategy. Includes near doubles equations, number combinations, and visual supports like dominoes and fact family houses to reinforce early addition fluency and number sense.

Black-and-white printable worksheets for near doubles and doubles plus one math concepts. The worksheets include addition problems like 1+2 and 6+7, with a choice of titles: 'Doubles +1' or 'Near Doubles.'

Two black-and-white printable worksheets for teaching near doubles and doubles plus one math strategies. The 'Doubles +1' worksheet includes problems such as 1+2 and 4+5, while the 'Near Doubles' worksheet features similar problems like 1+2 and 6+5. Both worksheets have a decorative border, small house illustrations, and domino visuals to support student engagement. Designed for teachers to use in classrooms.

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Help students master the near doubles strategy with this targeted, no-prep Near Doubles Worksheet — one of the most powerful mental maths tools in any primary classroom.

Near doubles are a game-changing mental addition strategy: once students know their doubles facts, they can use them as a bridge to calculate near doubles lightning-fast. This worksheet provides clear, structured practice to build that automaticity and move students from counting on fingers to confident mental computation.

Why teachers love it:

Targets a key mental strategy — near doubles is one of the most useful and transferable addition strategies in the Australian Curriculum
Builds from doubles knowledge — reinforces doubles facts while extending them to near doubles, connecting prior learning
Structured for success — clear layout scaffolds student thinking step by step
No-prep — print and go, no laminating or cutting required
Versatile use — works as a guided lesson activity, independent task, or homework consolidation

Perfect for:

Year 1 and Year 2 maths lessons on addition strategies
Consolidating doubles and near doubles facts
Maths rotations and small group targeted teaching
Homework tasks that reinforce classroom learning
Students who need targeted practice before moving to more complex addition

What's included:
A printable PDF Near Doubles Worksheet for primary school students, targeting the near doubles mental addition strategy with structured, teacher-friendly activities.

Give students the strategy — and the confidence — to tackle addition mentally. Near doubles is the shortcut that keeps on giving!

SPECIFICATIONS

Format: PDF, set up for A4 paper. Exactly what's inside is listed above.

Editing: This download is not editable. The PDF is flattened to protect the design and the artists' work we license.

Printing: Open the file in a PDF reader and choose 'Fit to page' or 'Actual size'. Do a test page on plain paper first — card, colour and black-and-white all print well.

Licence: One classroom, one teacher. Please don't share, resell or post the file online; buy an extra licence for each colleague who wants their own copy.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

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Can I print in colour or black and white?
Yes. Our resources are designed to work both ways; black-and-white versions look great on coloured card.

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