Multi-Digit Addition Strategies for Grades 2-4
When teaching your students how to solve multi-digit addition problems, providing them with various place-value strategies is important. This will not only help students find the best method for them,…
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How to Teach a Second Grade Number Line for Addition and Subtraction
If you teach second grade, you know that number lines show up everywhere: in addition, subtraction, place value, and mental math. A strong 2nd grade number line strategy helps students…
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Composing and Decomposing Numbers: K–2 Math Strategies
Do your students struggle to compose and decompose numbers when adding and subtracting? My students struggle to break a number apart and use its pieces for computation. This type of number…
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Fall Leaves Math Art Activity for Second Grade
Mix art and math with this fun fall art project. Students create a Fall tree using dots and then use their three-digit addition strategies to figure out how many dots are in their table group. We also extended it to find out the number of dots in our class. A great fun, engaging math AND art activity.
