Teaching addition just got a lot more fun! We just released Math Pack 32 - The Doubles Strategy for Addition.
This collection of 5 math games/centers will complement your math program and lessons. Use them to help
- introduce key concepts in whole class input lessons
- engage small groups of learners in math rotations
- teach specific targeted concepts in guided math mini lessons
- learn single digit doubles facts for addition
- learn the doubles plus 1 strategy
- learn the doubles plus 2 strategy
- learn doubles of multiples of ten from 10-50
Butterfly Double
This engaging activity will see your students recognize an addition problem as a 'double fact' and record it.
Near Double Bug
This activity can be used as a write-n-wipe center, with learners recording their answers directly on the cards, or you can ask them to use the bugs as task cards and record their learning on the worksheet with a pencil.
Learners will practice the 'double plus one' strategy - or 'near doubles'.
We provided these cards in both dot patterns and numerals.
Double Towers
Double Towers allows your students to achieve a more kinaesthetic appreciation of the doubles strategy for addition. The block tower cards can be laminated and compared by holding them directly on top of each other or side-by-side. It would be worthwhile to have your students also build matching towers from connecting cubes.
Here your students can clearly see the double - 2+2 and the near-double, 2+3.
Big Doubles
This fun take on a traditional 'spin and cover' game will have your learners transfer their knowledge of single digit addition over to multiples of ten. If they know 2 + 2 = 4, show them how easy it is to solve 20 + 20.
Double +2 Train
For this game we created a visual to show how a known double fact can be partitioned from a harder addition and used to solve it quickly. The last carriage of the train will show the 2 being partitioned off, leaving the double to be used with fluency and 2 more added in the final step.
For example, in solving 4 + 6, students can partition 6 into 4 and 2, use the double 4 fact and then add on the 2 to make 10.
These 5 games can help transform your week of math lessons or workshops into an engaging hive of fun activity! Each includes a recording worksheet and a cover page to help you stay organized!
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