The Trouble with Maths: A practical guide to helping learners with numeracy difficulties by Steve Chinn

Author:Steve Chinn [Chinn, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781317285144
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

4 Working from left to right

For many pupils mental methods are merely written methods they do in their heads, so adding from left to right will not be a natural inclination.

For example, 374 + 567

Add 300 to 500 to give 800

Add 70 to 60 to give 130

Add 130 to 800 to give 930

Add 4 to 7 to give 11

Add 11 to 930 to give 941

What are the essential sub skills?

Knowing addition facts (but counting on is a possibility).

Remembering the last addition each time.

This method has two memory benefits.

The answer is generated in the correct order of digits.

The intermediate steps rehearse the intermediate answers.

Being able to remember the question.

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