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The "Adding Up" method works from left to right, unlike the
Standard Algorithm. you start with
the hundreds column, and you add them. you place the answer
atop the problem and then
continue onto the tens column. you then add up the tens column and put
the answer atop the

column, and continue with the singles column. once you,ve got your
answers ontop ofthe
columns, you will check to see ifany corumn has an answer of r0 or
higher. Ifso, iou will
subtract l0 from that column, and add a r to the column to the reft. This
is stating that 10 singles
isequal to I ten, and l0 tens is equal to l hundred, etc. The steps should
look something like
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The problem is 437+829
So Step

l:

Set up the problem

vertically...

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Then Step 2: Start by adding the hundreds column, place the answer
above the hundreds column.
I use parenthesis so I don't get confused which numbers go in which column..

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Step 3: continue by adding the tens column and placing the answer
in parenthesis above the tens

column. . ..Then do this again with the singles column.

..

Your problem should now look like this:

(12)

43

(s)

16)

step 4: Now that the numbers are separated into their praces/columns,
we have to move from
right to left' and check ifany ofthe places have 10 or more. If they do, we
must subtract out the

l0s and regroup them into the column on the left. Again, this is because l0 units is really I ten,
and 10 tens is really I hundred. Since our problem shows that the single's column has 16, we
must now separate out the 10 and leave the 6 in the single's column. Since l0 is equal to I ten,
we must add a I to the tens column.
So far our problem should look

(12)

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Step 5: Now we continue onto the tens column. Since 5+1 is 6, and 6 is less than ten, we can
leave that answer in the tens column and move onto the hundreds column...
Step 6: Since we have 12 in the hundreds column, we must separate out l0 and leave behind the
2. This is because 10 hundreds is equal to 1 thousand, so we must now leave the 2 in the
hundreds place and put a 1 in the thousands column. We now have our final answer
1,266 is our final answer for the

" Adding Up" method. Now let's move onto

the "Partial Sums',

method.

Partial Sums
Personally, Partial Sums is my favorite method of all the addition methods listed. I believe it is
the easiest to explain and to teach since it is very similar to the Standard Algorithm while still
being much easier to comprehend and analyze.

First, with the problem from above, 437 +829, we would set it up vertically once again...

just like in the Standard Algorithm, and

we would add up 7+9...Now the answer is 16, but instead of carrying or borrowing, we will
place the entire answer under the problem. Make sure that the 1 is under the tens column and the
6 is under the single digits column. Your problem should look like this:
Step 2: we would start at the right most single's column,

7
9

Step 3: Now that we are finished with the single's column, we

tens column, and again we

will

will move onto the

will put a 0 in the single's

so there will not be any single's to

add. This time, we

place, because we are now working with tens,

worry about. So we will add up the 3+2 and we get 5, so we place the 5 in the
tens column representing the 5 tens, or 50, which has 0 units, thus has 0 in the
single digits column. We place this answer under the previous 16 answer. In the
end, we

will

add up all of the numbers to find the answer. Make sense?

Now our oroblem should look like this.

will continue with the hundreds column, using the same method
as before. Again, we will put a 0 in the single digits column and the tens column,
because we are working with hundreds, so there will not be tens or single units
Step 4: Now we

involved. We add the 4 and the 8, which is really 400 and 800....and that is equal
to 1,200....Which is I thousand and 2 hundreds, with no tens and no single units.
So we will need to create a new column for the 1 thousand, and we will place the
2 under the hundreds, while leaving zeros in the tens and single's columns. Each
box will then need to be slashed diagonally. This diagonal line is a separation
between single digits (less than l0) and any number that crosses into the tens or
more category. The number of tens will go on the left side of the diagonal dash,
and the single units left over will go on the right side ofthe diagonal dash.

Our problem now is complete and looks like this:

l6
50
1200
1)
Our answer is 1,266

Lattice Method:
The lattice method is our final method of addition. For the laftice method. you need to set
up a chart.

You first set the problem up vertically. You also need to set up a diagram ofboxes underneath
the problem, in each place value column, note: you need to have as many boxes as you have
place values. Each one ofthese boxes needs a diagonal slash.
Your problem should look like this when you're finished. ...

Now we would start the problem as we would in the Standard Algorithm. We start with the right
most column, and add down. 7+9= 16. Since 16 is more than ten, it must be broken up into it's
two separate parts, which are the tens and single units. Since 16 is really I ten and 6 units, we

would place the

I for tens, into the left halfofthe box,

and we would put the 6 in the right

halfof

the box.

We would continue adding down each column, and again, continue with the idea that we must
sepamte the tens from the single digits. Since 3+2 is only 5, we then put a 0 on the left halfofthe
tens square...You may also leave it blank if you don't think you'll get confused by the absence.
Then, we move onto 4+8, which is equal to 12. Since 12 is really I ten and 2 units, we separate
them out...We place the 1 ten on the left and the 2 units on the right....

Your problem should now look like this:

0
2

I
6

Now, we simply add across diagonally starting with the right side. We start with the 6, and drop
it down as our single units column...Then the 5+1 represents our tens column....0+2 represents
our hundreds column, and the I is our thousands column. . ..
Our final answer is I,266.
Simple and quick!