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Which would you do in your head?
This resource invites students to think about how they currently operate with number before looking at how to solve 38 + __ = 66 using a bar diagram.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 2 Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Place value Addition and subtraction Operating with number
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P7, P8) Number and place value (P5) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P3)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- mental strategies reasoning
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