Ahead of next week, we have been recapping our addition and subtraction skills again, focussing on being able to swap between the two strategies and choosing the best strategy that works for the children.
Lots of interesting conversations came out of our lessons.
* making sure that you read the question, some children were misreading the symbol so we agreed it was important to double check the calculation.
* use two strategies to check your calculation. For example, If you have done it mentally, double check your answer using a number line!
* if you are solving a sum mentally, partition the number into more manageable chunks!
Here is an example of some of the language we used when exploring these concepts in class discussion, the children chose their favourite way of referring to addition and subtraction!
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