Teaching mental math strategies

Are you exhausted from trying to get your kids to actually use computation strategies? Try these mental math tips. Your kids will LOVE mental math!

Teaching addition is one of the most important foundational math concepts you'll teach in your math class. To make addition easier for your students, there are specific mental math strategies you can teach. In this post, you'll find 8 mental math strategies that you can use in your primary or elementary classroom. Level up your math instruction with these addition strategies automaticity of addition facts. Find these strategies and other math ideas at www.ShelleyGrayTeaching.com

Improve math fact fluency for addition and subtraction by teaching first and second graders how to choose the best math strategy for a fact. Matching Strategies to Equations Problem: I've taught my students lots

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

Help your elementary students master their addtion and subtraction facts by teaching the Derived Fact Strategies. Aslo known as called 'thinking strategies'

If you find your head spinning when you think about all the addition strategies that you should be teaching, you are certainly not alone. Although teaching addition is one of the most important math concepts

Mental math skills are integral to our daily lives and as such we should be teaching them to our students. Knowing their doubles facts is a key component in being able to use a variety of mental math strategies such as doubles plus or minus one, two, or three. If you have never used the […]

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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

Mental math is a skill I’ve tried to incorporate into our math lessons whenever possible. Instead of using the traditional flash card method, I regularly turn to math games for middle school. This fun and simple dice game is the perfect way to build mental math skills.