Printable Two-Digit Addition Worksheets

Printable two-digit addition worksheets for 1st and 2nd grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 4 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as speed drills, word problems, and sorting activities.

Targeted Practice by Skill

About Two-Digit Addition

What this skill is

Two-digit addition teaches adding 2-digit numbers vertically, starting in the ones column and carrying (regrouping) 10 ones as 1 ten into the tens column when ones sums exceed 9.

When children learn it

Two-digit addition without regrouping begins in 1st grade; regrouping is mastered in 2nd grade, aligned to 2.NBT.B.5.

Teaching Tips

  • Always start adding in the right-hand ones column first.
  • Write the carried 1 clearly above the tens column box.

Common Mistakes

  • Adding the tens column first before the ones column.
  • Forgetting to add the carried 1 ten at the top of the tens column.