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Teaching subtraction with regrouping using the standard algorithm? You’re in the right spot! But, if you are teaching 1st or 2nd grade, please remember, the written algorithm for addition and subtraction isn’t necessarily the end goal! Your students need to use strategies based on place value and relate them to
If your goal is to teach your students strategies that lead to the standards algorithm, you are in the right space! But remember, if you are teaching 1st or 2nd grade students, the standard algorithm is not necessarily your end goal at this point in time. In 1st and 2nd grade
Knowing the partners of ten opens up the world of fact fluency and flexibility for your students. The best part? There’s no need to drill these facts! Your students can play engaging, hands-on, SIMPLE games to reinforce the partners of ten. The 5 games listed below will help your students
Hands down, this is one of my absolute favorite math skills to teach. You take something that seems like such an abstract mix between place value and operations and without fail teach 6 and 7 year old how to be successful in manipulating these numbers. It’s almost like magic. As
1st-grade students get the first real taste of place value. In kindergarten, your students may have learned to rotely count to 100 and they may have had experiences with teen numbers as ten ones and some more ones, but here in 1st grade you are introducing the idea that the
There are a number of misconceptions and errors we can predict when we introduce subtraction to our students. Not understanding that subtraction starts with the total. Not understanding that subtraction can take away or take apart or find the difference. Not understanding that subtraction isn’t just the operation you use
You’ve spent the first week of the school year settling in with your students and you’re ready to dive into your math curriculum. The first unit is a quick review of “counting-all” addition, and this time next week you will be knee-deep in “counting on”. Somehow it’s the first day
A few years back I sat with a first-grade teacher. The day had ended and she was sitting at the kidney table, head resting on her hands out of pure exhaustion from the day. She had called me down to meet because she had followed the math program to a
In first grade, students use addition and subtraction fact families to understand the relationship between addition and subtraction but also to become more fluent in addition and subtraction facts. Taking a CRA (Concrete-Representative-Abstract) approach can help students to understand and generate related facts and addition and subtraction fact families. Strategy
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