How to Teach First Grade Math Addition Tables

Teaching addition tables to First Grade Math students can be both challenging, and rewarding from the educators stand point. Children in this age group have short attention spans, and need a lot of hands on experience in order to fully grasp the concepts they are learning. Below are some simple ways that you can help your students learn, understand and retain their knowledge of Math Addition Tables.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Any interesting manipulatives
• Addition Tables for each student
• old magazines
• glue
• paper
• scissors
• Butcher Block paper
• tape
• Thick Black Marker

How to Teach First Grade Math Addition Tables

1. Use any type of manipulative, to provide students with hands on addition practice. After giving children copies of the Addition Tables and explaining to them how they work, have them work together in pairs or small groups to "demonstrate" a set of problems. Provide each group a number to work with, and enough manipulatives to set up each problem visually. Example- One group is given the number six to work with. Using the table they can then demonstrate that 6+1 =7, 6+2 =8, 6+3 = 8, etc... For manipulatives you can use small toys, cubes, blocks, or even M&M's or cereal pieces. Children can arrange their manipulatives to "prove" that the table is an accurate way to find the answers to addition problems.

2. Give children old magazines that they can cut up. They can use these magazines to create their own addition table. Direct students to find and, then cut out and paste the appropriate numbers into boxes on the table.

3. Encourage students to become more familiar with the Addition Tables by having them locate missing numbers on the tables. Simply white out certain numbers from the Addition Table. Provide students with copies. Assign them the task of solving the problems and writing in the missing numbers. Allow them to use manipulatives if needed, to find the correct answers.

4. Challenge your students to a class trivia game. Break the class into 2 groups. These groups will be team 1 and team 2. Ask an addition question that appears on the table, giving both teams the chance to find the answer on the table. The first team to call out the correct answer to the problem earns 1 point. Keep playing, encouraging children to look for the answers on the table, and giving extra help to those who seem to be struggling with understanding how the table works.

5. Use several pieces of butcher block paper, taped together, to create a giant version of the Addition table. Start by filling in the number one on the table. Allow children to take turns filling in all of the other numbers, giving directions to students such as "Show on the table that 1+2 =3" or "Show on the table that 5+5 = 10".

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