Addition tricks:

Here are lots of "thinking tricks"

you can use to make addition
easier.
Use the ones that make sense to
you!
Count From A Number Upwards
Example: 6 + 3

Subtraction tricks:
Subtract in bits at a time

There's no need to subtract things all at once in your head. If you have to
subtract 150 from something, you have 100 and 50 to subtract separately.
1100 - 150 First of all, subtract the 100 to make it easier:
1100 - 150 = 1000
now all you have to do is subtract the remaining 50:
1000 - 50 = 950

Another example:
1450 - 125
I can either subtract the 100, the 20 and the 5 separately, but looking at it, I have
decided to subtract the 100 and the 25 instead:
1450 - 100 = 1350
13 50 - 25 = 13 25 (I split them up in to pairs so I can think about them more
easily, as explained above.
Just to explain last bit, I thought in my head:
13 50
-

25
25

This method is like the 'sliding rule' above, only thought about in a different way.

Multiplication tricks:

Division tricks:

Draw a Picture

If you're just starting out with division, drawing a picture may help you to
understand division problems better. First, draw the same number of boxes as
the number for the divisor. Then move from box to box adding in a dot that
represents 1 out of the total dividend. The number that you have in each box is
the answer.

In the picture below we are trying to solve 20 4 = ?. We have drawn 4 boxes. We

start putting in the 20 dots one box at a time. We end up with 5 dots in each box.
The answer is 5.

Mathematics
tricks

Isabelle Nicole susing

Grade v-sun

Mrs. Joy cerezo

Math teacher