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3 Tips to Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts for Your Kindergartner or First Grader

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3 Tips to Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts for Your Kindergartner or First Grader

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Three fun and creative ways to use dice to help kindergartners and first graders practice their addition and subtraction facts.

Categories: Mathematics

Tags: elementary math , addition facts , first grade math , subtraction facts , kindergarten math

What you'll need:

dice

How to make it:

1.
Opposites attract.

Did you know that the opposite sides of a regular die add up to seven? This makes rolling a die great for practicing the combinations that make ‘7’. The next time you play a board game that uses a die, show your child/student how the opposite sides add up to seven. Then, when you take turns rolling the die, move the number of spaces that are on the opposite side of the number rolled. For example, if your child rolled a ‘6’, then on the opposite side would be a ‘1’ because 6 + 1 = 7. So she would move one space.

Variation:
• Create different number facts by covering the dots on the die with stickers (address labels cut to the size of each face on the die work well). Write the new dots according to the number facts you want to practice. For example, if you want to work on the facts for ‘5’, then the opposite sides need to add up to 5: 0 dots and 5 dots; 4 dots and 1 dot; 2 dots and 3 dots.
2.
What’s one more?

Roll the die. The number of spaces moved is one more than the number rolled. For example, if a ‘5’ is rolled, then the number of spaces moved is one more, or six.

Variations:
• The number of spaces moved is two more…or one less…or…
• Can also be done when rolling two dice.
3.
What’s the diff?

Using two dice, players take the difference between the two numbers and move that many spaces. For example, if a ‘6’ and a ‘2’ were rolled, then the number of spaces moved is four because the difference between 6 and 2 is 4.

Playing at a higher level: To help kids begin to abstract the dots on a die, cover the dots with stickers and write in the number symbols that you want to use. For example, a regular die would be covered with the symbols: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
4.
Video Directions

To see the video version of these tips and discover an easy game kids can create to reinforce these tips, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2AJ1q4HnHU

stapsue2

Posted about 27 days ago

Excellent ideas! So simple too. Thanks! These ideas will add another dimension to the games we already play.

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3 Tips to Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts for Your Kindergartner or First Grader

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What you'll need:

How to make it:

Opposites attract.

What’s one more?

What’s the diff?

Video Directions

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