• 1st Grade
  • Math
  • About 10 minutes

Fact Family Houses to 20

The three numbers in the roof are a family. Write all 4 facts!

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How to do it

  1. Look at the three numbers in the roof.
  2. Write two plus facts.
  3. Write two minus facts. Start with the biggest number.

Teaching tip

The biggest number in the roof is the whole. It always goes first in a minus fact. This sheet is aligned with Common Core 1.OA.D.8.

Fact Family Houses to 20 worksheet for 1st grade (fact families and missing numbers), free printable
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About this worksheet

Four fact family houses with a teen number on top. Write the two addition and two subtraction facts.

What kids practice

A fact family is three numbers that make two addition facts and two subtraction facts, like 6, 8 and 14. Once kids see that, they can find a missing number in a problem like 6 + ? = 14 or ? - 8 = 6. They also learn what the equal sign really means. It says both sides are the same amount, not "the answer goes next".

Watch for

  • Adding every number they see, so 5 + ? = 12 gets the answer 17.
  • Thinking an equation must have the answer on the right, so 9 = 4 + 5 looks "wrong".
  • Putting the smaller number first in a subtraction fact.

It's free to print, with an answer key. See the full fact families and missing numbers guide for 1st grade.

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