Doubles Strategy

We have been working on several different strategies to solve addition problems.  Children are discovering we don't solve all questions with the same strategy.  We are learning to look at the addends (the parts we are adding) to see which strategy would be the most efficient and effective. 

Ex. 8+2= ._____ is a make ten fact

6+1= we would use the counting on strategy

3+3= . when both addends are the same we can think of our doubles 

We need to memorize our doubles.....however, we use referents (references from real life to help us remember.)

This is the chart we made.  It is posted in our class.  Children are encouraged to look at it when solving doubles problems and when playing doubles games.  The more they use it, the faster they will remember these facts.

Sweet 16:  When we are 8 years old like our grade twos, we are half way until we are 16 when we can drive a car!!