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Episode 95
Published 3 years, 9 months ago
Description
What are the major strategies students need to know to solve any addition problem that is reasonable to solve without a calculator? In this episode Pam and Kim list them out, give examples, and some insights into how they choose which strategy to use for any given problem.
Talking Points:
- Splitting by Place Value (a precursor strategy)
- Add a Friendly Number
- Add a Friendly Number - Over
- Get to a Friendly Number
- Give and Take
- When do you use each strategy?
Get our download of all the major strategies here! mathisfigureoutable.com/big