Every number is printed. Every step is missing
Arithmetic read backwards. 36 to 45 is a plus, but a plus what; 45 to 9 is a divide, but by what. The child knows both ends of the fact and has to supply the middle, which is the one form of a times table that cannot be answered from memory of the page.
Not the answer. What was done to get it.
A missing operation worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. Set the ceiling — 20, 100, 500, 1,000, 5,000 or anything you type — pick three, four or five arrows to a row, and generate. Each arrow carries its operator and an empty box for the number. Every value in the chain is a whole number between 1 and your ceiling, every division comes out exactly, no operator runs three times in a row, and each row uses at least two different ones. Ten rows a sheet, with an answer key.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Read
Two numbers, and the sign of the step between them.
Work
What number turns the first into the second?
Write
Into the box, and on to the next arrow.
Numbers up to
Every number on the sheet stays between 1 and this, all the way through the chain — nothing negative, and every division comes out exactly.
Arrows in a row
Every row uses at least two different operations, and no operation runs three times.
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.