Jane Lee

An extremely helpful tool in providing students with support and logical steps to use the strategy of decomposing numbers when adding. This resource starts with showing students how to decompose numbers using numerical and pictorial representations. Following an understanding of what decomposing numbers is, students are then introduced to the use of the decomposing strategy for adding numbers together.

This resource is incredibly helpful for teachers (primarily 1st and 2nd grade teachers) who are wanting to expose students to a variety of strategies. I searched around for a resource that would most benefit my students and I decided to create my own in order to help my students best learn how to use this as one way to solve addition equations. This visual tool allows students to see, step-by-step, how to use Place Value.