Preparing for Formulas From an Early Age

Word problems and formulas made easy!!

Have you ever wondered why children struggle using basic formulas?

They may know a formula by heart but then their chosen calculation does not reflect the chosen formula. So how do you teach it? I have created an animated, step-by-step guide that can be a great way to scaffold the use of formulas from their first years in school.

For me it is exactly how I wished I had learnt it. As a student I wished I had a step-by-step guide available to me. Since I have introduced it to my students, I have seen a real difference in the way they have internalized the process. When we started using formulas, they knew exactly what to do. The previous effort had paid off. I really believe it is a great propaedeutic tool.

This inclusive, propaedeutic resource can be used with your students, but it can also be used for Parents’ Workshops to share how to support the children’s learning or for Professional Development Courses.

This resource contains two files, one for the powerpoint presentation and one for the diagrams in pdf.

You will have access to:

An example of an animated and solved one-step problem for children in the first years of elementary/primary school using the diagram created by S-CoolPal.
An example of an animated and solved two-step problem for children in the last years of elementary/primary school using the diagram created by S-CoolPal.
An animated step-by-step guide that scaffolds and recaps all the steps a student needs to take to explain their choice of an operation and the further steps to solve the problem.
Two diagrams containing one-step and two-steps reasonings to be laminated and used as a model for all problems.

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