Ways to Add Anchor Chart – Addition Strategy Posters

This "Ways to Add" anchor chart with addition strategy posters set is a math visual aid that is designed to help students acquire, practice, and improve the skill of addition. With it, mathematicians of all ages can learn strategies to develop their understanding of how to combine numbers with addition. The set includes an anchor chart that shows six different strategies for addition. There are also six accompanying strategy posters that detail the six strategies from the anchor chart.

This download is 7 pages total. A fun and engaging way for teachers to add this anchor chart to the class is by playing a modified version of the game Charades. Grab the math manipulatives and learning materials you would use to do these 6 addition strategies. Act each one out while students guess what addition strategy you're showing them. As students guess the strategies correct, go over that section of the poster as a class.

K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

K.OA.A.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.