Have you ever wished you could perform a subtraction operation without needing to regroup? Well, now you can with this special subtraction action we’re showing you! In this issue’s Things We Love video, Marian explains an alternative method for solving vertical subtraction equations where students can flex their mental math skills. We hope your students will enjoy putting this subtraction action into practice!

Question Difficulty

In this Things We Love video, Marian shares a strategy involving the ordering of questions presented to students based on varying difficulty levels. If teachers always put the hardest questions at the end, some students might catch on and never even attempt to answer those questions based on their perception of difficulty. Think about which questions build a foundation for the questions that follow, and order them that way, or switch things up completely, and watch your students succeed at questions they otherwise may have skipped!