If you go back to that web site with all of the basic facts suggestions, and look at the answer and commentary to “What are some teaching strategies that meet these guidelines?” in the section about drilling on basic facts, you’ll see a suggestion to give children 3 sets of 10 problems as a weekly speed practice that are efficient for a particular strategy.


Your Assignment: Write 3 sets of 10 problems that are efficient for using 10 to add.

Technology tools to use:

If you have a standard installation of Microsoft Word, you probably have equation editor and/or you might have the new microsoft equation. You can also download MathType, which is free for 30 days, and after that, it turns into a less spiffy version of itself.

I usually use equation editor. Here is how that works:

Finding Equation Editor
Tips for doing this assignment faster using Equation Editor
Adding and button to the toolbar for Equation Editor if you have the new version of Word (if you have an older version of Word, let me know, and I'll show you how to add it to the toolbar for that too.)
You can buy or get a free trial of MathType (it has a few cool features Equation Editor doesn't have)
Tutorials for using MathType