Since I am on spring break, I have had a chance to create a few new activities for my classroom. My firsties love games, anything with dice, anything you can throw,or any game that gets them moving. After spring break we will focus on the addition facts for automaticity. My class has great number sense overall, and many of them are ready to move ahead. By learning their addition facts automatically, they will become more "efficient" in solving other math problems and have a greater chance of long term success in math. I use the term "efficient" often in my class and they know it as "faster." What kid doesn't like "faster?" They look at it and know if they finish their work "faster" or more efficiently, then they can move onto bigger and greater things. I try to keep the focus on fun and not "drill and kill" their love for math. I am not a paper packet person, and don't believe that more is always better; as in doing 1000 math problems will make you know your facts faster. I have a plan in mind, but would like to hear what many of you do.
I go back Monday, so I better get ready.
Please share your method of helping students learn their addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts.
One of the things I do in math is talk about strategies that will help us become a better math student.
Just like the strategies that help us to decode or comprehend in reading,
there are math strategies that help us become better math students.
We have been working on the strategy of doubling a number, and doubling a number plus one. Since my student are pretty good at doubles, I thought I would work on triples.
I created 2 little math center games for practicing doubles and triples.
Here is a peek. Grab them HERE for FREE,
or just click on the picture to download.
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