Mental Math Strategies for Division: self-checking, instant feedback
Halving, doubling, dividing in steps, multiples of 10 and partial quotients explained with dot arrays and base-ten pictures, a free number talk for grades 4 to 6, and a self-checking digital version of the slide deck.
Mental Math Strategies for Multiplication: 107 Self-Checking Problems, Instant feedback
Multiplying by 9, 11 and 5, doubling, factors of 100 and 1000, rounding, and halving and doubling explained with base-ten blocks, a free number talk for grades 3 to 5, and a self-checking digital version of the slide deck.
Mental Math Strategies for Addition and Subtraction: 117 Self-Checking Problems
Compensating, decomposing, balancing and clustering explained with base-ten blocks, a free number talk for grades 2 to 5, and a self-checking digital version of the slide deck.
Chicken Escape
A multiplayer card game that makes mental math practice fun! Chicken Escape is a fast-paced multiplayer card game. While playing, students practice mental math skills, improve their working memory, and enhance their strategic thinking skills. The story The chickens at the farm are planning an escape! Help your chickens run …
Mental Math Strategies
Dedicating time for teaching mental math strategies in the classroom or at home helps students become quicker and more efficient in solving equations. It improves their number sense skills and helps them identify relationships between numbers, and recognize patterns. However, we need to remember that we teach concepts first and …