Mental Math Strategies for Division: self-checking, instant feedback
Halving, doubling, dividing in steps, multiples of 10 and partial quotients explained with dot arrays and base-ten pictures, a free number talk for grades 4 to 6, and a self-checking digital version of the slide deck.
Mental Math Strategies for Multiplication: 107 Self-Checking Problems, Instant feedback
Multiplying by 9, 11 and 5, doubling, factors of 100 and 1000, rounding, and halving and doubling explained with base-ten blocks, a free number talk for grades 3 to 5, and a self-checking digital version of the slide deck.
Mental Math Strategies for Addition and Subtraction: 117 Self-Checking Problems
Compensating, decomposing, balancing and clustering explained with base-ten blocks, a free number talk for grades 2 to 5, and a self-checking digital version of the slide deck.
Division Mental Math Strategies
We have already discussed mental math strategies for addition and subtraction as well as mental math strategies for multiplication in previous posts. Today we will talk about division strategies that not only help students solve problems quickly but most importantly they help them gain a conceptual understanding of numbers and …
Mental Math Strategies- Multiplication
Using Mental Math strategies means solving a math problem mentally using a conceptual understanding of the numbers. Teaching Mental math Strategies to students is very important as it develops their flexible thinking and boosts their confidence in math. Being able to use the multiplication properties to apply mental math strategies …
Mental Math Strategies – Addition and Subtraction
Using Mental Math strategies means solving a math problem mentally using a conceptual understanding of the numbers. We teach mental math strategies like making 10, splitting, and regrouping in grades 1 and 2, however, I think it is important to teach strategies to older students as well. I noticed that …