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Marilyn Burns shares with us her view on open number lines.

She brings up great reasons to try an approach with and open number line:

• An open number line reinforces the idea that the answer to a subtraction problem is the difference between two numbers.
• It supports using the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction by counting up instead of back.
• It engages students in decomposing numbers and reasoning.
• It provides a visual model that’s a useful tool.

Read all about it: HERE