| A great article about helping children develop strategies for the basic facts is 'Learning Strategies for Addition and Subtraction Facts: The Road to Fluency and the License to Think' by Lisa Buchholz in Teaching Children Mathematics, March 2004, pages 362-367. |
The following Word files each contain several different activities.
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| Thinking Strategies for Basic Facts contains descriptions of possible strategies for learning basic addition and multiplication facts. |
| Addition & Subtraction Fact Games |
| Multiplication Fact Games contains games that both demonstrate the operation and practice the facts and factors. |
| Multiple Operations contains games that use more than one operation. |
Excel Activities for the Elementary School
The following Excel files each contain several different activities.
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Excel_activities requires the use of basic formulas. Users need to determine the simple formulas such as "=A2+A3" and Fill Down to create lists. Even and odd numbers, arithmetic and geometric sequences, and guess and check strategies are the math topics. |
Excel_activities_2 uses skills such as copy and paste and filling cells with color. Counting to 10, multiples, and prime numbers are the math topics. |
A great resource for using Excel in grades K-8 is Spreadsheet Magic: 40 Lessons Using Spreadsheets to Teach Curriculum in K-8 Classrooms by Pamela Lewis, published by the International Society for Technology in Education (2001). While most of the activities focus on math, there are activities for language arts, science, and social studies. All activities are organized by grade level, but could actually be used in several grade levels. |
Copyright © 2005 Marilyn Mudge,
Ed.D.
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