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Making Ten to Add & Subtract: A Live Workshop for K–2 Teachers
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Looking to deepen your students' understanding of addition and subtraction within 20? These numberless word problems offer a powerful way to shift the focus from quickly solving to thinking critically. By removing the numbers, students are encouraged to focus on structure, relationships, and context—the true foundation of mathematical problem solving.
Looking to deepen your students’ understanding of addition and subtraction within 20?
These numberless word problems offer a powerful way to shift the focus from quickly solving to thinking critically. By removing the numbers, students are encouraged to focus on structure, relationships, and context—the true foundation of mathematical problem solving.
This math enrichment resource is perfect for guiding students to visualize problems, ask meaningful questions, and make sense of real-world situations before jumping to a solution. It’s ideal for math talks, whole-group lessons, small groups, intervention, or enrichment.
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This resource is especially helpful for first and second grade classrooms, but can also be used for remediation or challenge in other grades. Whether you’re using it for a quick math warm-up, number talk, or guided math lesson, these numberless problems invite deeper reasoning and discussion.
Want to help students slow down, visualize, and truly understand the math? These numberless word problems are a great place to start.
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Join me for a hands-on workshop exploring what to model, which questions to ask, and how to respond when students get stuck using ten to add and subtract.
Includes a printable Teacher Toolkit, ready-to-use Number Talks, and the workshop recording.
Gigi P. –
Great resource! This can be easily differentiated. Students were mostly able to read these by themselves as well.
Tiffany B. –
I love this resource! We use these for our “Word Problem Wednesdays” in their math journals. I have yet to be disappointed by a resource from this seller; they’re all great!
Mathy One –
I love having the flexibility for students to select their own numbers with this resource. Some of my kids are great at challenging themselves, while others chose to solve with the numbers I provided. Thank you.
Kaitlin K. –
Awesome resource that incorporates some higher order/critical thinking into addition and subtraction word problems. My students enjoy using these!