First Grade Math Addition Tables

Video Transcript

"About this time your child will be ready to memorize their addition tables. And this is very important because unfortunately a lot of schools aren't emphasizing this as much any more. And the scariest thing is to see a child line up 364 plus 478 perfectly and put everything right in place and start to add it correctly but count each part of it on their fingers. You don't want that to happen. So, take out your wonderful, ever magnificent flash cards and let them do all the wonderful work for you. Start with the ones, and just start with the ones even though they're easy. Even though it's basically just the next number and you can point that out to your child if they don't realize it. But just memorize those. Write it out clearly. Put the answer on the back. Like that. Do not use a sharpie because it will bleed through and they'll be able to see the answer before they're ready. And again, use your flash card method where you have, you have a good pile. And then if they get it right it goes over to the side. If they get it wrong it goes into a different pile. And then you keep taking the bad pile and starting over until all the cards are in the good pile. Now, just do the ones the first day. As easy as they are and then when they've mastered the ones go up to one plus 10. And do the twos, and, up to two plus ten and so on, until you get to ten plus ten. And you can show them tricks along the way. There are different tricks that you might have remembered from being in school. For adding different numbers. But basically that's it. And let your child be able to say any addition problem in their sleep."