Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Teaching Mental Math

Along the lines of Number Talks, I was looking for lesson plans on teaching mental math.  I found this site with a discussion about teaching Math to struggling students.   It has some nice tips such as:

Talk about how the pairs that make 10 can help her with mental addition and subtraction. If she needs to add 5+8, she knows that:
5 + 5 = 10
and
8 = 5 + 3
So
5 + 8 = 5 + 5 + 3 = 10 + 3 = 13

This seems like a nice start. 

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