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Big Number Addition Techniques Guide

The document outlines 9 steps for teaching big number addition, starting with using pictures and number lines to count on in ones and tens. It progresses to using empty number lines and compensation, carrying below the line with increasingly large numbers. The final steps introduce adding decimal fractions with up to four digits and two decimal places.

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Big Number Addition Techniques Guide

The document outlines 9 steps for teaching big number addition, starting with using pictures and number lines to count on in ones and tens. It progresses to using empty number lines and compensation, carrying below the line with increasingly large numbers. The final steps introduce adding decimal fractions with up to four digits and two decimal places.

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Big Number Crunch Addition

Step 1
Recording addition by using pictures/ grouping.

Step 2
Using a number line to count on in ones.

Step 3
Using a number line to count on in tens and ones.

Big Number Crunch Addition


Step 4
Using a number line adding the tens in one jump and the units in one jump.

Also bridging through ten can help children become more efficient.

Step 5
Continue to use empty number lines with increasingly large numbers, including compensation where appropriate.

Big Number Crunch Addition


Step 5
(Continued) count on from the largest number irrespective of the order of the calculation.

49 + 73 = 122

Step 6
Begin to use informal pencil and paper methods

Big Number Crunch Addition


Step 7
Begin to carry below the line

Step 8
Extend the carrying method to number with any number of digits.

Step 9

Begin to add two or more decimal fractions with up to four digits and either one or two decimal places.

E.g. 401.2 + 26.85 + 0.71

Big Number Crunch Addition

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