Students explore mental strategies to calculate the difference between two numbers. The basic strategy employed is that the difference can be found by addition.
Teacher notes
- A partitioning model is used to help students see the value of strategies such as rounding to 10, or compensating to the next 10 to help find the difference.
- The animation at the commencement of the learning object demonstrates some of the strategies, which are also available as 'hints' while students work.
- The printouts show how the student solved each equation.
Learning objects
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The difference bar: generate easy subtractions |