Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping Round Up

If you are embarking upon the challege of teaching your students addition and subtraction with regrouping, I have a collection of blog posts and resources that will help you to find success!

Troubleshooting Subtraction with Regrouping

When you have a student who isn’t “clicking” with the idea of subtraction with regrouping it can be tempting to go out and find more activities and experiences to help them on their way. In reality, it might not be that your student needs more— there’s a reason this skill isn’t sticking in the first

Addition to 100 With Regrouping

It is important to note that 2nd-grade students do not need to master the written standard algorithm for adding numbers to 100 let alone 1,000! In fact, students only need to relate a place value strategy to a written method. Start with a focus on

Why Are There So Many Different Strategies for Addition?

If you are on Facebook, surely, you have seen rants about how Common Core Math is the WORST. Seemingly elaborate diagrams are drawn to add simple numbers such as 19 + 6. Students are drawing number bonds to break apart the 6 into a 1 and a 5, are circling numbers, writing new equations. All

Why One Hands-On Tool Isn’t Enough When Teaching Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping

There is so much more to “hands-on” than any single math tool can offer when it comes to teaching addition and subtraction with regrouping. When I taught these skills for the first time, I was the special education teacher in a 4th grade integrated co-taught classroom. And yet, even in 4th grade, I was going

Adding and Subtracting Ten Mentally

For some first grade students, adding and subtracting ten to a given number comes naturally. They know that 23 has 2 tens and 3 ones so, naturally adding another ten gives the answer of 33! For other students, this skill isn’t so intuitive. You may have taught the skill using a place value chart and,

What Your Students Need To Know BEFORE You Begin Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping

Teaching addition and subtraction with regrouping is such an exciting time. It’s a benchmark skill that many kids and parents think of as the first opportunity to do “big kid math”. But before we rush into this skill, we need to be sure that our students have the foundational understandings they need to be successful!

Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping Activities that Build Number Sense

If you are teaching addition and subtraction with regrouping in your classroom you have an opportunity to build number sense at the same time through the activities that you use! Let’s first stop to acknowledge that addition and subtraction with regrouping using the standard algorithm is not a 2nd grade standard even though the skill

Adding and Subtracting Decade Numbers

First graders begin to solve addition and subtraction problems with sums to 100. It is SO important to note, these standards are NBT (place value) standards, not OA (operations) standards! Noting this will help you to stay focused as you are instructing and remediating. This