Get Climbing to Addition Compensation Strategy Success 

In the early stages of learning addition, young children benefit from various strategies to develop a solid foundation. One strategy is the compensation strategy, an effective mental maths technique that encourages students to round numbers to make a number sentence easier to solve. 

This interactive activity aims to engage students in a hands-on learning experience reinforcing the addition compensation strategy and promoting their mathematical fluency and understanding.

Tips for Extension and Support

We know that teachers are doing their absolute best to provide differentiated instruction for the diverse needs of the learners in their classrooms. To help you achieve the next outcomes for your learners, here are some ideas for how you might differentiate the application of this resource.

• Extend Your High Fliers: Write further addition problems on the class whiteboard and have more-capable students complete them using the compensation strategy. 
• Support Your Less-Confident Students: Allow students to use maths manipulatives to help them with this concept. 

Teaching About the Compensation Strategy Has Never Been So Easy!

This resource is available to download in Google Slides. Be sure to use this presentation in Slideshow mode to enable the interactive features.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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