Number skills
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Number skills
https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/number-skills
Calculating in columns is a useful skill. Learning it gives valuable practice with place value and number bonds. Mastering it gives children confidence in their ability to manipulate large numbers and helps them cope with bank statements, till receipts and other real-life situations where numbers are written in columns.
If we fail to teach this skill, we leave children unable to handle large numbers without a calculator. Surely we cannot call that numeracy.
DIANA KIMPTON Baring Road Cowes, Isle of Wight
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