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About this time your child will be ready to memorize their addition tables. And this is
very important because unfortunately a lot of schools aren't emphasizing this as much
any more. And the scariest thing is to see a child line up 364 plus 478 perfectly and
put everything right in place and start to add it correctly but count each part of it
on their fingers. You don't want that to happen. So, take out your wonderful, ever magnificent
flash cards and let them do all the wonderful work for you. Start with the ones, and just
start with the ones even though they're easy. Even though it's basically just the next number
and you can point that out to your child if they don't realize it. But just memorize those.
Write it out clearly. Put the answer on the back. Like that. Do not use a sharpie because
it will bleed through and they'll be able to see the answer before they're ready. And
again, use your flash card method where you have, you have a good pile. And then if they
get it right it goes over to the side. If they get it wrong it goes into a different
pile. And then you keep taking the bad pile and starting over until all the cards are
in the good pile. Now, just do the ones the first day. As easy as they are and then when
they've mastered the ones go up to one plus 10. And do the twos, and, up to two plus ten
and so on, until you get to ten plus ten. And you can show them tricks along the way.
There are different tricks that you might have remembered from being in school. For
adding different numbers. But basically that's it. And let your child be able to say any
addition problem in their sleep.