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I once read that subtraction is the most difficult operation for kids to wrap their minds around.  It is even considered to be more cognitively challenging than division. 

It is no surprise then tha...

Whenever a student is trying to make sense of a problem I like to ask, “Can you make a picture of it?”  Using a tape diagram for math can help children model lots of different problems using different...

Powerful mathematicians have many different strategies at their fingertips that they can use to solve problems.  They can choose which strategy will be the most efficient for the problem at hand and n...

Often when we are talking with young children about subtraction we use the term “take away.”  While we can sometimes think of subtraction as taking away, subtraction can also mean finding the differen...