Using Doubles to Help

Help your learners with mental addition as they use doubles facts as a fast track to the sum. Using math manipulatives, partners create models of several near-doubles addition equations. After giving them time to consider patterns, guide thinking to how using doubles facts and adding or subtracting one may help. Using dice, partners practice doubling numbers and adding or subtracting one. Word problem extensions are included, however the game indicated in the instructional activity is not.