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Dots instead of aligators
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Children often learn the larger than and smaller than sign to see as alligators with the alligator eating the larger number. Donna Boucher has a nice more math focused alternative.
Read all about it: HERE
A game of rounding
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https://nrich.maths.org/ shares a wonderful game for two about rounding.
Reasoned Rounding is a rounding game for 2 players.
You will need a recording sheet shared between the 2 players.
One sheet is enough for three games. (Recording sheet pdf version.)………
Read all about it: HERE
Get them to show their work
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Having trouble getting maths students to show their workings? Write on the board "and they all lived happily ever after." and ask if they would hand the story in to their English teacher and tell the teacher they did the rest of the story in their head.
— FudgeMaths (@FudgeMaths) September 14, 2021
Try subtraction a different way
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
See the blogpost from Marilyn Burns where she shows a different way to do subtraction than the regular traditional algorithm. See if this works for your students.
Read all about it: HERE