It's the beginning of third grade and you're working on addition and subtraction word problems. Everything seems to be going well, and you feel confident moving on to multiplication and division.
The problem?
Your students are given an addition and subtraction problem ...
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Archives for June 2019
Compensation Strategy: Subtraction
In the previous blog post, we talked out how the compensation strategy can help students create simpler addition problems, you can view the blog post about it here.
Today, let's look at how this strategy works in subtraction.
Example 1: 800 - 254
You take 1 from 800 ...
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Addition Strategy: Compensation
Let’s talk about compensation.
This is a strategy where you manipulate numbers to create friendly numbers. These friendly numbers are easier to add.
Example 1: 87 + 399
You take 1 from 87 and move it to 399
Now you have 86 + 400
86 + 400 = 486
You’ve now made a ...
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