This free math tutoring video will encourage you to forget finger counting! Finger Counting should be left behind (or, even better, not taught at all) after Kindergarten. Beginning at 1st grade level math (or adding and subtracting within 20) children should be taught mental math strategies in order to figure out answers. Counting is not figuring. Counting is chanting a memorized list. We want our children’s minds actively engaged in the mental manipulation of numbers so that they develop and solidify number sense within themselves.
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Mental Math Fun – Free Math Tutoring Video
Making math stories will draw in those children who are more imaginative, artistic, or social. This is a great way to teach mental math! Make it fun!
Before watching this free tutoring math video, make sure to watch the first couple videos in Mental Math or it won’t make a bit of sense!
Mental Math Addition – Free Math Tutoring Video
This free math tutoring video shows the first step in learning to do mental math. This teaching technique can be started as soon as children have their facts (number bonds) to 10 memorized. (VERY easy to do with Cuisenaire Rods! check out my other videos!)
Once children learn to add and subtract using “making tens” strategies for problems within 20, they can then take that knowledge and extend it to numbers within 100 and even within 1,000. I first learned this method from the Singapore Math curriculum. Too bad math isn’t taught this way in the U.S.
I’ve seen it with my own children. This concept is the key that opens the door…