Answer key

The answer, and what a wrong answer means.

#	Problem	Answer	If they wrote…
1	4 + 3	7	no pattern to catch here
2	7 + 7	14	no pattern to catch here
3	7 + 4	11	no pattern to catch here
4	9 + 1	10	no pattern to catch here
5	9 + 6	15	16 rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust
6	6 + 5	11	no pattern to catch here
7	2 + 1	3	no pattern to catch here
8	9 + 8	17	no pattern to catch here
9	5 + 7	12	no pattern to catch here
10	6 + 6	12	no pattern to catch here
11	9 + 5	14	15 rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust
12	9 + 4	13	14 rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust
13	9 + 7	16	17 rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust
14	4 + 4	8	no pattern to catch here
15	3 + 9	12	13 rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust
16	7 + 3	10	no pattern to catch here
17	5 + 5	10	no pattern to catch here
18	9 + 9	18	19 rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust
19	6 + 3	9	no pattern to catch here
20	7 + 4	11	no pattern to catch here

Reading the wrong answers

One wrong answer is a slip. The same pattern on three or more problems is a rule your child is following, and it has a name and a fix. Problems marked "no pattern to catch" are the plain ones; a child who gets only those right is telling you something too.

Reading the wrong answers

Rounding to add, then forgetting to adjust 6 of 20 problems