Tagged with ' Grade 3'

We often see children who struggle to perform even the most basic operations, even after repeated instruction. Without an understanding of base ten and place value, children are very limited in their ability to do ordinary arithmetic; that is, to add, subtract, multiply and divide. If, for example, they can only think of 48 crayons as 48 individual loose crayons, and 25 more crayons as 25 individual loose crayons, then the only strategies available for finding the total number of crayons are “counting all” (1, 2, . . ., 48, 49, 50, . . . 73) and “counting on” (48 - 49, 50, . . . , 73).