Teaching Addition Skills on Math

Teaching addition skills are often neglected, but actually there are practical ideas on how to teach the skill successfully.

Uniting groups of physical objects; on mathematics skill this is a basic practice of adding up. Simply by collecting two sets of objects and counting them in total. The method can be done by building two towers of cubes and counting up each single block. Most students will be too occupied mainly for students who have deficit disorder. A child need to master the concept smoothly, otherwise they would end up with the wrong answer and don’t make any progress at all.

Simple drawings; write the addition problem and next to the first number, write down the correct number of tally. Ask your students to draw for the other number on the problem. Once they finished ask them how many tallies altogether. Do it by putting two groups together.

Counting on; if your students are able to count up to 5 or ten, you can ask them question “what number is 1 more than 4?” or “what comes after 2 when we count? “ Students will come up with the same answer for question “how many is 2 +1?” this method is very powerful as well as give them more confident to answer the question that they actually have met before. Students will see addition and counting as primarily related this way.

Playing board games; this game requires a counter to be moved around to push children to count on. The activity is like counting out numbers aloud, or using a number line.

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