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Double Digit Addition With Regrouping Worksheet

This double digit addition with regrouping worksheet gives 2nd graders eight column-form problems that all trade ten ones for a new ten, plus a word problem. Answer key included for fast, no-prep practice.

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Double digit addition with regrouping is the moment addition stops being a one-column job. When the ones add up to ten or more, a second grader has to trade those ten ones for a single ten, carry it into the tens column, and finish the problem from there. That trade is the whole skill, and it is the bridge between counting strategies and real place-value thinking. This double digit addition with regrouping worksheet gives students eight column-form problems that every single time require a regroup, so the strategy is practiced until it becomes automatic rather than guessed at.

This 2nd grade addition with regrouping worksheet is built for independent practice. Students work eight vertical problems, each set in its own card so the ones and tens columns stay lined up and nothing gets crowded, then finish with a word problem about a boy named Jose and the pages he read before and after school. The word problem asks them to build a number sentence from the story, which is the step that shows whether they understand what addition is doing, not just how to stack it. Every sum lands within 100, so the sheet sits squarely in the 2.NBT.B.5 standard. Use it as morning work, as a math-center rotation, as homework, or as a quick check before you move on to three-digit addition.

What’s Included

  • 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
  • Answer key
  • 8 column-form double digit addition problems that all require regrouping
  • 1 word problem with a fill-in number sentence

Three things make this resource work. First, every problem regroups, so students cannot solve half the page on autopilot and then stall on the ones that trade — the strategy gets rehearsed nine times in a row. Second, the place-value columns are drawn on a fixed grid, so the ones sit under the ones and the tens under the tens, which removes the alignment errors that make regrouping look harder than it is. Third, the applied word problem at the bottom turns the procedure into reasoning, so students leave this double digit addition with regrouping worksheet able to explain the trade, not just perform it.

Away from the page, make the trade physical. Give students ten craft sticks bundled with a rubber band and a pile of loose sticks, and have them bundle a new ten every time the ones column fills — the rubber band is the carry. Base-ten blocks and a simple place-value mat do the same job. Roll two dice twice to build a pair of two-digit numbers and race to add them, or hunt for regrouping in real life: two shelves of books, two jars of buttons, two days of steps. At home, add up the pages read across a whole week and check the total together.

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