Tuesday 31 January 2012

Mental Math Strategies

In math right now we have been working on mental math addition strategies.  We started last week by learning that when you see a number +1 that it's really just saying one more than the number.  We played a game to reinforce that mental math fact.  Then we looked at what +2 means and how it's really just two more than a given number. Then we had fun with +0 facts.  At first some of us didn't realize that when you see a number +0 that it's really just the original number.  We giggled as we answered addition questions that were all +0 questions.

So far this week we've been looking at adding doubles.  Here are some pictures of us playing a game to help us learn our doubles facts.









Now we're curious what other secret mental math strategies Ms. Lirenman is going to teach us! Math is so much fun.

3 comments:

  1. We like your pictures. We have those squares in our classroom,too. Do you have computers in your classroom?

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    1. We have two computers in our classroom, one iPad, and Ms. Lirenman lets us use her iPod too. Sometimes Ms. Lirenman brings in laptops to our classroom. Plus at least once a week we go to our school lab where everyone gets their own computer. Sometimes we go there more than once a week.

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  2. You have wonderful photos

    From cindrich class div 18

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