Explicitly connecting known strategies to flexible mental strategies
This free online professional learning module will develop your knowledge of a range of mental additive and multiplicative strategies and the role automaticity—being able to recall facts quickly and effortlessly—plays in building these strategies.
In this module you will:
- develop knowledge of a range of mental additive and multiplicative strategies and the role automaticity plays in building these strategies
- understand when and how strategies are most efficient for students.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Professional learning Teaching strategies
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2025 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Other terms
- teaching strategies evidence-based primary maths
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