Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 22.  Today we get insight into how Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic.

Today’s insight comes from the book Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget’s Theory (second edition) by Constance Kamii.

I get asked a lot how to help kids with subtraction and my answer is consistently, work more on addition.  This may seem harsh that I don’t think we should be teaching kids strategies to solve subtraction, but if they have strategies for addition they will naturally use those when they see subtraction or they will instantly know the answer because they know the addition fact.  Listen to the full episode at buildmathminds.com/22