Teaching Addition Facts

Whether your child is homeschooled, in private school, or in public school, you may have noticed him struggling with memorizing addition facts. Your child is not alone! Even if your child is not struggling, the Sensible Addition math kit is for you, simply because it helps students learn the facts much faster than without it. I'm sure there are lots of other things your student could be doing with that extra available time!

How Does Sensible Addition Work?

I developed Sensible Addition during my first year of homeschooling. It was not developed because my son struggled with math, but because I am always searching for ways of getting things done more efficiently. I tend to think "outside the box," and have not figured out why others are not teaching addition facts this way. Thanks to my teaching degree from Georgia State University, and the time spent with my children in various learning environments, I have the insight to think of ways of improving how we are teaching our children. It does not take a classroom of 30 students, a doctorate degree, or even an expensive tax-funded study to come up with a better way: it takes common sense!

Sensible Addition works on the knowledge that children learn in different ways. Some learn better by seeing ("visual learner"), some learn better by hearing ("auditory learner"), and some learn better by moving ("kinesthetic or hands-on learner"). If a child is an auditory learner, flash cards are meaningless, especially if the development of the concept has not been done properly. Since most children have a dominant learning style and a weaker learning style, using Sensible Addition makes sense, because it

• utilizes all three learning styles at one time to help your child learn HER way,
• utilizes your child's weaker learning style to help her improve it,
• gets the memorization of addition facts completed, AND
• helps you utilize this same learning strategy with other subjects.

Sensible Addition is NOT

• A complete math curriculum
• Used for teaching the concept of addition. The concept must be taught before memorization of facts. Your Sensible Addition kit will come with suggestions for teaching the concept of addition, or to see how well your student learned the concept at school.
• Going to do the work for you (or your child). The kit is not complicated at all, and can be used in child-led learning. But it still requires some work on the parts of both parent and child.
• A colorful, exciting, or frivolous sort of entertainment. It is black and white, and meant to be used along with other supplies to teach addition.

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