We are learning more addition and subtraction mental math strategies!! We have been reviewing the 13 we have learned up until this week! An updated collection of these will come home on Monday to replace any old sheets. The collection is also posted below for reference. Please use these at home to help with our math work that comes home and to practice these strategies when you get a chance to build our skills of our math facts! Students are loving the math challenges that are presented and should be proud of all they are learning!
This week we dove into an addition strategy called Doubles Plus One! We recognize this is when two numbers are neighbours and we can think of them like our doubles fact and then just add one more! We have been really focusing on doubles lately with our strategies and how they can quickly help us with several different math facts (doubles, monkey in the middle and now doubles plus one).
Next week, we will focus on a new subtraction strategy called Subtraction as Think Addition! We have really been learning about how addition and subtraction are related and the numbers can be rearranged to to make addition or subtraction sentences. So if addition is easier (and is for most), we can take subtraction sentences to really be addition sentences to help us solve math problems!
Count On and Count Back are really if no other strategy is available but still need a plan B!
Again, we will be focusing on one per week (sometimes two if we need some extra time with learning), then we will review all strategies on Thursday and then on Fridays we will have our 5 question quiz to see how we are doing as we continue to learn and apply these strategies.
We are becoming math whizzes!!
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