Another Insider’s Trick
This morning we received a request for a modification of the Addition: Money worksheet. Sandy has been using that worksheet specifically for calculator practice for her students, but wanted problems with 10 addends. She gives calculator practice from a paper, then uses those skills to practice shopping, directing her students in real life money-and-calculator calculations.
We can’t make the problems each have 10 addends and keep the font size similar to the student’s handwriting size, because we’d have only a few problems on the page. However, for calculator practice, the problems certainly don’t need to be similar to the size of the student’s handwriting. So Scott made a “back door” of sorts to fulfill the request.
If you want up to 10 addends for Addition: Money, and the font size is unimportant to you, here is what to do:
- Log in to the site and go to Addition: Money.
- Make the selections you want and click “Create It.”
- Read the URL at the top of the screen. Note where it says “numberofaddends=” and it shows the number of addends you selected.
- Carefully put your cursor in the URL, delete just the number of addends, and carefully type the number of addends you want. Leave the equals sign there, as well as the rest of the long URL.
- Click “Go” or press the “Enter” key.
The site will give you another Addition: Money worksheet. It will have problems with the number of addends you specified.
We’re pleased to add one more aspect of usefulness to The Math Worksheet Site. 
–Denise