Try to master these games: Mental Math Strategies

Yahtzee
Dominoes
Connect Four
Boggle
Grade One Mathematics
Card Games Mastermind
Dice Games Triominoes
Monopoly

Learning addition and

subtraction facts.

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 Mental Math Strategies ...

By the end of grade one: Students are taught various strategies to recall basic facts. If children are using fingers, they are encouraged
to think about which strategies could help find the answer.
Students demonstrate an
understanding of addition of Students are also encouraged to start from what they know. These strategies are stepping stones building
numbers with answers to 20 and on one another through the year.
their corresponding subtraction
facts, concretely (real objects),
pictorially (pictures) and symbolically
(numbers).
Thinking Addition
One More/Less Using Doubles for Subtraction
Materials:
5 + 4 = 9 so 3+3=6 For 4 - 2 think
Dominoes, dice (1 to 6 or 0 to 9), 5 + 3 is 1 less or 8 5 + 5 = 10 2+?=4
cards, 10 frame cards, rekenreks,
addition and subtraction games and
number lines.

www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/math

Using the Making Ten

Commutative Counting Back
Property or the Flip 5 + 5 = 10
For 6 - 2 think, 6 + 4 = 10
For 3 + 9 think 6, 5, 4 (count back 2) 7 + ? = 10
of 9 + 3

Counting On Fact Families

Using the For 7 + 2 think 7, 8, 9
Property of Zero ?+3=7
(7 count on 2) 3+?=7
4 + 0 is still 4 7-3=?
Count on from the 7-?=3
biggest number.

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