🌱 Addition and Subtraction Fact Families ➕➖

Learning about addition and subtraction fact families can be a fun and exciting time for young learners! Discovering the relationships between parts of a fact family, and gaining an understanding of part-part-whole is a fundamental part of learning about numbers and operations.

This instructional slide deck will make a great addition to your Maths lessons when learning about fact families. The presentation includes opportunities for your students to demonstrate their understanding of the content with built-in checks for understanding questions.

With this slide deck, your students will learn:

• the definition of fact families
• examples of fact families
• addends and sums
• minuends, subtrahends, and differences.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your maths lessons. 

In addition to individual student work time, use this instructional slide deck on fact families to enhance learning through guided math groups, whole-class lessons, or remote learning assignments. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need support by breaking the teaching presentation into smaller portions. For example, use the material to teach about addition fact families first and give students an opportunity to talk, process, and record their learning. When your students are ready, use the material to cover subtraction fact families, while comparing the two types of operations. 

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

For students who may need a bit of a challenge, encourage them to practice their knowledge of fact families by creating some visual representations of two-digit number fact families in their books! 

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the Download button to access the editable Google Slides version of this resource.

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