Additive strategies video
The video demonstrates a range of intuitive, efficient strategies such as compensation and partitioning. Estimation and rounding are also highlighted before using a strategy to work out the answer.
Access the supporting teaching guide that provides suggestions to follow up video.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
- Purpose
- Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Addition and subtraction Estimation
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P8) Number and place value (P7)
- Publisher
- Education Services Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons BY 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Other terms
- real world maths
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