What kinds of tasks help students build multi-digit addition and subtraction strategies? In this episode Pam and Kim discuss how to sequence tasks to develop the foundational strategies and relationships for multi-digit addition and subtraction: Friendly numbers, place value, adjusting, the commutative property, decomposing
Talking Points:
- Sequencing tasks is more than just moving from one page to the next in the teacher guide
- Sample of three "messy" tasks to:
- develop number lines
- make connections between addition and subtraction
- analyze strategies
- solidify a strategy
For more sequences, check out the Foundations for Strategies from Hand2mind!: https://www.hand2mind.com/item/foundations-for-strategies-multi-digit-addition-subtraction-small-group-kit
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