Fact Families- 2.NBT.5

This week we are teaching addition and subtraction strategies.  One thing I plan to focus on this year is moving my students to become better mental mathematicians.  I really dislike the reliance on fingers and pictures that my students have.  One of the strategies that we teach to help with this is Fact Families.  There are lots of great resources out there to help with teaching fact families.  I wanted to create a fun game that my students could play in an independent station to review the concept.  I also wanted to be able to hold my students accountable with a recording sheet.  This game will allow your students to play and review the concept while also having fun!  I also included a variety of cards so that it can easily be adapted for a variety of ability levels.  As always, the first comment gets their own copy FREE!

Happy Fact Families!

Mental Math and a Freebie

Remember this past summer when I posted about Mental Math here?  When I created my unit, I had no idea that so many of you would be struggling with the same concept!  We have started reviewing mental math in our second grade classrooms.  Today we reviewed the adding 10's.  We are going to explicitly teach it for each adding and subtracting until we feel confident that they understand it.  Then we will have them work on mixed problems for adding and subtracting 10's and 100's.  Want to check out the mini unit?  It's a great one in my biased opinion!

As I started preparing for next week, I realized needed a game that my kids could play to review this skill.  I made a quick spinner game that lets the kids make their own 3 digit number.  I think it accompanies the unit well!  Be sure to pick up your own free copy by clicking the picture below.  First comment will also get you my Mental Math Mania pack for free!!

Happy Monday!

Mental Math

Mental math strategies are always an interesting topic to teach, aren't they?  It is so concrete, yet I always feel it is one of those skills that they either get it or they don't, there really isn't an "in between" stage.  As I begin thinking about the standards I need to teach this year and how I'd like to teach some differently than last year, this standard just kept coming to mind.  2.NBT.8 Mentally Add and subtract 10 or 100 to a given number between 100-900.  As I was working through it last night, this little pack came to me.  I think it will be very useful for me (and hopefully you too) this coming year.  It comes with a lot of resources for you to use in your classroom.  Teaching posters that you could have printed in large size at your favorite printing company, or just use them on your document camera.  There are also 16 practice pages that you can use with the students.  The numbers range from 100-900 and can be used to level stages or instruction, or use throughout the year.  Of those 16 practice pages there are 4 of each area (+10, -10, +100, -100)  I have also included 4 different word problems that apply the strategy of adding and subtracting 10 and 100 but in a word problem format.  Hop on over to my TpT site and pick yours up today.  Or just click the picture below.

Happy Wednesday!
Juli