Recommended Age: 5 years and onwards (can be younger depending on the child’s skills and experiences)
Purpose: To practice subtraction that will lead to memorization of the essential subtraction combinations
Level of Parent Involvement: Low, this exercise is short to model to the child, once modelled the child may work independently
Prerequisites
- The child must be able to count accurately from 1-10 and onwards
- The child must be able to write numbers
- The child must be able to match the numeral symbol with its quantity of numbers 1-10 and beyond
- The child must have had many experiences doing subtraction with the golden beads
- The child has been introduced to the first presentation of the subtraction strip board and has practiced this exercise multiple times
Materials
- The subtraction strip board
- Blue strips 1 to 9
- Red strips with partitions 1 to 9
- 17 unmarked wooden strips
- Prepared subtraction tables
- Pencil
- Subtraction chart 1
Note; if doing this exercise with your child from home you will be using the paper version of the above materials (see resource pack)
Preparation
- None
Steps
- Invite the child, together bringing the subtraction strip board, blank paper and the prepared subtraction strips to the table
- Invite the child to pick a prepared slip
- Show the child how to make the equation on the board
- Write the equation on the blank paper
- Invite the child to have a turn
- Once the child has had a few turns inform them they may check their answers using control chart 1
- Leave the child to work independently
Variations
- None
