Question: What’s the Deal with All These Addition Strategies?

A 1st grade parent asks: What is the deal with all these addition strategies? It seems a bit much right? Can’t students just memorize their facts? What’s the point? In this series of 3 videos, I respond.

Video describing background for addition strategies
(TIME: 14:32)

Video describing the Making 10 Strategy for addition (Time: 3:03)

Video Describes the Near Doubles Strategy for addition (Time: 3:24)

Kelly Darke

I’m a mother, teacher, writer and lover of mathematics. This website offers a curated collection of resources for sharing the wonder and joy of mathematics. I hope teachers and parents find it useful.

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