Fact Family Fun

Do you remember working with Fact Families as a student?

It is one way that the students are working to achieve the Alberta Education Mathematics objective:

9. Demonstrate an understanding of addition of numbers with answers to 20 and their corresponding subtraction facts, concretely, pictorially and symbolically, by:
   • using familiar mathematical language to describe additive and subtractive actions
   • creating and solving problems in context that involve addition and subtraction
   • modelling addition and subtraction, using a variety of concrete and visual representations, and recording the process symbolically. 
   

This week, the students are working with others in their table groups

to complete the four different fact family activities that I have created.

The students have the opportunity to share their thinking, watch a successful 

table mate and ask questions to solidify their understanding, as they complete the tasks.

Of course, they often come and check in with me for one on one consultation, 

ensuring that they are on the right track!

Each day, the table group gets a different math tub to work on, but they are 

all focused on the concept  of inverse operations.

Inverse operations are opposite operations that undo each other. 

Addition and subtraction are inverse operations.

Look at the results!  I am so proud of these little mathematicians!

They are proud of themselves, too!