Learn how to guide math talk with these essential math talk moves. Grab a free classroom poster to use with your students to get you started!

6.8K views · 1.1K reactions | Here’s the secret 👇 ✨Pre-teach any needed mental math skills students need for that strategy.✨ Let’s look at an example. Here are 3 mental math skills students need to successfully use the break apart addition strategy: 1️⃣ Students need to know how to break apart numbers: 20=20+5 2️⃣ Students need to know how to add tens together: 20+20=40 3️⃣ Students need to know how to add a teens number to a tens number: 40+14=54 A couple days before that actual…

Ten Brain Tricks for Learning Math Facts: These strategies are backed by science, and will help the kiddos with basic math facts!

If you need help with teaching your students adding integers, this strategy and adding integers worksheet will help make this concept easy!

I’m going to be really honest here. When I first started teaching 12 years ago, I didn't really know about addition and subtraction strategies. I was teaching 1st grade, and the curriculum we used taught the count up strategy, sums of 10, and doubles. We spent 1-2 days on each and then quickly moved

Use the classic game Twister to practice all sorts of math facts! A great way to get kids moving and learning at the same time!

A cute trick to avoid regrouping and borrowing when subtracting something from a power of ten or multiple

Free Subtraction Strategies reference poster in the downloadable preview - illustrates 8 strategies