Printable Doubles and Near Doubles Worksheets

Printable doubles and near doubles worksheets for 1st and 2nd grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 5 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as visual guides, word problems, and speed drills.

Targeted Practice by Skill

About Doubles and Near Doubles

What this skill is

Doubles facts (6+6=12) anchor mental addition. Near-doubles (doubles-plus-one or doubles-minus-one) use known doubles to solve adjacent facts (6+7 is 6+6+1=13).

When children learn it

Doubles strategies are taught in 1st and 2nd grade, aligned to 1.OA.C.6.

Teaching Tips

  • Memorize basic doubles facts (1+1 through 10+10) with visual picture rhymes.
  • For 7 + 8, think double 7 is 14, plus 1 more makes 15.

Common Mistakes

  • Adding 2 instead of 1 when using near-doubles strategies.
  • Forgetting the core doubles facts (like 7+7=14).