MathWise Number Sense: Developing Power with Numbers

For a video description of the MathWise series of workbooks click on the "Follow the Author" - Peter L. Wise.MathWise Number Sense teaches students the basics of manipulating numbers and understanding how numbers work. It provides students with basic and advanced skills dealing with all four operations. Tips and tricks are used to show students clever and creative ways to work with numbers.The skills taught in this book reduce cognitive load by giving students facility with numbers and teaching them creative strategies to enable them to work at greater efficiency. By learning and practicing a variety of approaches to calculation, students are better equipped to build of web of understanding with numbers. Lastly, by developing number sense skill, students are better able to check their answers for reasonableness. Topics include:Breaking apart numbersMaking tens, adding tensLooking for 5s to make tensDoubling numbers and looking for a carryAdding and subtracting 9s as 1 less than 10Adding and subtracting 8sAdding by doubling the middle numberDivision problems involving zerosExpanded notation, using the “Triangle Trick”RoundingMean, Median, ModeShortcuts for multiplying 5sFinding new factor pairsMultiplying when addingEstimationThe Distributive Property with multiplicationMultiplying 4s, 6s, 8s, 12s as multi-step problems Read more