Five Keys for Learning Mental Math

Five Keys for Learning Mental Math

Six Reasons Why Mental Math (and paper-and-pencil)

are Important and Useful

1. Mental math and paper-and-pencil methods can be faster than technology, if you have an efficient strategy.

2. Use of technology (and paper) may not be available or appropriate.

3. Mental math and paper-and-pencil methods help understanding of the material and learning new concepts.

4. Mental math leads to fluency and confidence.

5.Use mental math to check or estimate an answer obtained from a calculator (or other technology) or from a paper and pencil calculation.

6. It will be on the test.

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1. Students see the importance and

usefulness of mental math.

5. Students have a mindset of mental math,

in which they have an expectation of

and belief in mental math.

2. Students make good decisions

about the calculation method to use.

3. Students learn strategies for mental math.

4. Students practice the

mental math strategies.