Welcome to 2012!

In Math today, we looked at another mental strategy to help us with addition facts to 18.  It's called DOUBLES AND NEAR DOUBLES.  It is important that your child know their doubles to 18:  1 + 1= 2; 2 + 2 = 4; 3 + 3 = 6; etc....  We can use the near doubles strategy to write a sum for 13.  We know that 6 + 6 = 12 and 1 more makes 13 OR that 7 + 7 = 14 and 1 less is 13.