Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Teaching Ideas #3

Addition Through 20

There are a few tricks that are helpful when teaching addition to 20. Here are a few that helped all my children.

*When adding 9’s to a number up to 10, go back one from that number and say “teen”.

Example: 9 + 4 (go back one number --say "three-teen", or 13"


*When adding 8’s to a number up to 10, go back two from that number and say “teen”.

Example: 8 + 6 (go back to 5, go back to 4, say "four-teen", 14)

*Memorize the doubles

*Learn “doubles plus one” (ex. 6 + 7 is the same as 6 + 6 + 1)

Start slow, work on one trick at a time and master it before moving on to another. Soon, your child will have addition up to 20 memorized.

Have any additional tricks for addition through 20?

11 comments:

  1. three words: fingers and toes.

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  2. Now that is great. Never ever thought of that. I usually just yell, "Memorize it, boy!"

    I know. So encouraging, right?

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  3. well, here's a grandparent technique for better math. "keep trying sweety. I know you can get it because of course yer a mathematical genious. Go ahead and add it up for me again." (grin)

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  4. I have used all of these but it is funny how literally my son takes it and will apply the same rule to any equation that has a 9 in it. I taught him the multiplying by 9 short cut by taking one away and adding the number that gets you back to 9. 9x8= go back 1 to 7 and takes 2 to get to 9 so it is 72.
    He of course had to remind me that with a 9 you take away 1 and add teen. Too funny

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  5. i needed you as a teacher!

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  6. My kids always seem to learn math quicker with m and ms or skittles...

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  7. That looks great...I am going to try it with our younger ones. Thanks Robin.

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  8. Thank you! jimmy made me think of what my mom would do!

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  9. what time does school start? My kids will be there tomorrow. Hope you don't mind. :)

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  10. Thanks, all for your comments. Roger, I'll be posting those multiplication tricks soon. Good ones.

    Let us know if you try the addition tricks and how they work for your children!

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