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Free Printable Addition Bingo Cards
Call the total or call the sum, and a whole class does mental math without noticing.
Made by the PaperCarnival team · Updated
36 curated squares · unique cards every time · US Letter & A4
Addition bingo can be called two ways round. Call a total, “eleven”, and students hunt for a sum on their card that makes it; call a sum, “six plus seven”, and they work it out and mark the square that matches. Thirty children practicing mental math at once, and every one of them thinks it’s a game.
Calling a total is a bigger question than it sounds. Seven of the thirty six squares on this list make ten and six make eleven, so decide before the first call whether a student marks one fact per call or every fact on their card that fits; marking all of them makes a call of ten the fastest in the game. The six doubles, three plus three up to eight plus eight, are worth calling on their own for a class that is just meeting them.
The word list
Every square, ready to print, or edit the list in the generator
- 2 + 3
- 4 + 5
- 6 + 7
- 3 + 8
- 9 + 2
- 7 + 4
- 5 + 5
- 8 + 6
- 1 + 9
- 3 + 3
- 2 + 7
- 4 + 8
- 6 + 6
- 7 + 7
- 5 + 9
- 3 + 6
- 8 + 8
- 4 + 4
- 9 + 6
- 2 + 8
- 7 + 8
- 5 + 6
- 3 + 9
- 6 + 4
- 8 + 3
- 9 + 7
- 2 + 5
- 4 + 9
- 7 + 3
- 6 + 9
- 5 + 8
- 1 + 7
- 3 + 7
- 4 + 6
- 9 + 4
- 2 + 9
Ways to play
Call the total
The teacher calls a sum total ("eleven"); students find and mark an addition fact that makes it.
Call the sum
The teacher calls a fact ("six plus seven"); students solve it and mark the matching square.
Blackout
Play until a card is full; with seven ways to make ten on the list, the tens come round again and again.
Four corners
Only the corners count, a two minute warm-up of four facts before the real lesson starts.
Questions
Can I set the number range?
Yes. Enter your own facts in the generator, sums to ten, sums to twenty or doubles, and the cards are drawn from those alone.
What grade is it for?
It's ideal for grades 1-3, and adapts up or down easily with your own list of facts.