2.NBT.B.5

Addition With Regrouping Worksheets

Two-digit addition with regrouping using a ten-cookie box model to show ten ones becoming one ten.

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Skill Focus

What this worksheet practices

Regrouping is place value in action. When the ones column reaches ten or more, students exchange ten ones for one ten and keep adding. The point is not a trick called carrying; it is a way to preserve the value of the number while writing it in a more useful place.

The bakery model makes carrying visible: ten loose cookies fill a box, and that box moves to the tens place. Students see the carried 1 as one new ten, not an extra digit to memorize.

Accuracy matters more than speed here. If a child keeps adding the carried ten twice or forgetting it entirely, step back to base-ten blocks or draw tens and ones for a few problems. Then return to the printable once the written method has meaning again.

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Worked Examples

How to approach this skill

Addition with regrouping practice is easier to review when the student can explain the steps, not just the answer.

01

47 + 28

  1. 7 + 8 = 15 ones.
  2. Write 5 ones and regroup 10 ones as 1 ten.
  3. 4 tens + 2 tens + 1 regrouped ten = 7 tens, so the answer is 75.
02

58 + 27

  1. 8 + 7 = 15, so write 5 in the ones place.
  2. Regroup 1 ten.
  3. 5 tens + 2 tens + 1 ten = 8 tens. Answer: 85.
03

72 + 18

  1. 2 + 8 = 10 exactly.
  2. Write 0 ones and regroup 1 ten.
  3. 7 tens + 1 ten + 1 ten = 9 tens. Answer: 90.
Problem Mix

What appears on the page

These sample prompts come from this worksheet set's structured item data.

1 Arithmetic

47 + 28

2 Arithmetic

36 + 39

3 Arithmetic

58 + 27

4 Arithmetic

64 + 19

5 Arithmetic

25 + 46

6 Arithmetic

72 + 18

7 Arithmetic

49 + 35

8 Arithmetic

17 + 68

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FAQ

Addition with regrouping questions

Is regrouping the same as carrying?

Carrying is the old shorthand. Regrouping is the clearer place-value explanation: ten ones become one ten.

Why use a ten-cookie box?

It connects the written carry mark to place value: ten ones are regrouped as one ten, then added with the other tens.

Why are there no three-digit problems?

This page keeps the first regrouping step focused before students add more places.

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