Mental Math Grade 6 Teacher's Guide
Mental Math Grade 6 Teacher's Guide
Mental Math Grade 6 Teacher's Guide
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Table of Contents<br />
<strong>Mental</strong> <strong>Math</strong> in the Elementary <strong>Math</strong>ematics Curriculum .............1<br />
Definitions and Connections ...................................6<br />
Rationale ..................................................7<br />
Teaching <strong>Mental</strong> Computation Strategies .........................7<br />
Introducing Thinking Strategies to Students .......................8<br />
Practice and Reinforcement ..................................10<br />
Response Time ............................................11<br />
Struggling Students and Differentiated Instruction .................12<br />
Combined <strong>Grade</strong> Classrooms .................................13<br />
Assessment ...............................................14<br />
Timed Tests of Basic Facts ...................................14<br />
Parents and Guardians: Partners in Developing <strong>Mental</strong> <strong>Math</strong> Skills ....15<br />
Fact Learning ..............................................17<br />
Fact Learning - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division . . 19<br />
Reviewing Facts and Fact-Learning Strategies ...............19<br />
Addition .........................................19<br />
Subtraction.......................................20<br />
Multiplication and Division ...........................20<br />
Multiplication Facts With Products to 81 ................23<br />
Division Facts With Products to 81 ....................24<br />
<strong>Mental</strong> Computation .........................................25<br />
<strong>Mental</strong> Computation - Addition ............................27<br />
Front-End Addition ................................27<br />
Break Up and Bridge ...............................28<br />
Finding Compatibles ...............................29<br />
Compensation ....................................30<br />
Make 10s, 100s or 1000s ...........................31<br />
<strong>Mental</strong> Computation - Subtraction .........................32<br />
Back Down Through 10/100/1000 .....................32<br />
Up Through 10/100/1000 ...........................33<br />
Compensation ....................................34<br />
Balancing For a Constant Difference ...................35<br />
Break Up and Bridge ...............................36
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