This article draws on some ideas explored during and after a writing workshop to develop classroom resources for the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry (www.resolve.edu.au) project. The project develops classroom and professional learning resources that will promote a spirit of inquiry in school mathematics from Foundation to year ten. The…

There is a call for enabling students to use a range of efficient mental and written strategies when solving addition and subtraction problems. To do so, students should recognise numerical structures and be able to change a problem to an equivalent problem. The purpose of this article is to suggest an activity to facilitate such understanding in…

Problems are discussed in which addition facts are presented using words instead of numbers. The letters are then replaced by numbers that will make the addition problems correct. (MP)

An addition "trick," an analysis of why it works, and steps in constructing other problems of the same type from the basis of a discovery learning activity for addition. (DT)

The author describes various classroom activities for teaching basic number skills under the headings (1) Understanding facts, (2) Relating facts, and (3) Mastering facts. The activities are designed to involve children in the making of models of the operations of arithmetic and the interpretation of these models with number sentences. (MM)

This booklet offers teacher instructions and student worksheets on number activities for gifted primary grade students. Three sections are included: (1) "moving numbers" which asks students to supply the missing member or members of addition and subtraction equations; (2) "number trails," which involve the completion of number…

Practice on computation is provided using new and novel situations, with discovery of number patterns a bonus of the computation. Activities with disguised addition and multiplication tables for whole numbers and integers are presented for varying levels. (MNS)

This instructional manual consists of 11 competency-based units for a mathematics course for trade and industrial programs in Texas. Each instructional unit includes the following basic components: unit and specific objectives, notes to the instructor (outline of steps to follow in accomplishing specific objectives), information sheets,…

A teacher describes an activity designed to help children understand the number concepts of the basic addition facts with sums of 11 or greater. (CL)

The author describes a method by which parents can help their children learn basic addition facts by playing dominos. (SD)

How the manipulative aid called the "10 frame" can be used to teach the number combinations for 10, the addition facts that bridge 10, and the place value nature of our number system is described. (MNS)

This unit is 1 of 12 developed for the university classroom portion of the Mathematics-Methods Program (MMP), created by the Indiana University Mathematics Education Development Center (MEDC) as an innovative program for the mathematics training of prospective elementary school teachers (PSTs). Each unit is written in an activity format that…

This book of supplemental exercises is one of a series of books designed to provide educational materials for students in addition to the instructional texts in the Adult Learning Skills Program. Exercises in this basic level book are for the mathematics subject area. Course numbers and exercise topics are: 101 (shapes, sizes, numerals, sequencing…

Addition and subtraction of integers can be approached through the use of chips of two colors. (SD)

Magic squares are used to generate number games similar to tic-tac-toe. Skills that are reinforced include addition of negative numbers and addition and multiplication of fractions. (MP)