The Easy Way to do Subtraction
Subtraction in Third Grade is not always as easy as it looks!
There are parts I love about teaching. Reading? Writing? Speaking? All over those! Creative centers and integreated learning? Check and check!
But math? Sometimes I feel like I am totally 'rocking it' and other times it seems like my lessons go in one ear and out the other! I have to work extra hard to make sure that my students are getting the best possible math education. Finding strategies that work for everyone in my class is a constant juggling act!
Am I alone in this?
I spend my evenings on Pinterest, and reading other blogs about strategies that work for other teachers, and I try to implement them in my classroom. I desperately want my kiddos to succeed.
Recently, our math curriculum introduced subtraction with missing numbers. Boy, were we lost. Do we add? Do we subtract? What is the question even asking. There are so many times when the materials we have (especially the text book), are just not enough!
So I started from scratch. I made new worksheets, new posters, and a new "cheat sheet" to help guide my confused bunch of third graders. After a bunch of repeated practice... I think we have it! Praise the Lord!
So, I am sharing it with you. Use it, try it, let me know if it helps your kids to master this concept. Although this is available on Teachers Pay Teachers blog readers can have it for FREE as part of my Free Resource Library (See the link at the top of the page that says 'Resources') when they sign up for my mailing list.
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- Rachel
