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The Power of Ten materials for parent use can be used by parents who want to supplement the school’s program or by parents who are homeschooling. The materials are based on recent brain research that shows. - the power of visualization
- the role that games can play in creating a culture of risk taking and problem solving
- the downside of timed tests that create fear and anxiety in many struggling students.
- how to use “All the Facts” assessments to help your child build on their own strengths
- how to focus on strategies instead of memorization
- that each child learns differently
Power of Ten Manual – Visual Strategies for Learning Adding, Subtracting and Place Value The manual includes:
- A step-by-step program for teaching adding and subtraction using games and special ten-frame cards
- Two twenty-card laminated decks for playing games (one set is red, the other is blue)
- Tools for developing number sense including “How Many Ways to Make a Number”
- A visual activity for learning to make change and develop “hundredness”
- Several activities using the place value and problem solving cards
- Several non-traditional methods for adding and subtracting that are based on understanding instead of drill
- Many assessment sheets for addition and subtraction facts
 Learning to Multiply and Divide Strategies Book
The manual includes: - A step-by-step program for teaching multiplying and dividing using strategies
- Games to help reinforce the facts
- Strategies that develop understanding of multi-step multiplying and dividing
- Many assessment sheets for multiplication and subtraction facts
Ordering InformationClick HERE to order this product  Learn How to Add Using Power of Ten Shapes and Games CD
The CD is designed to work only on a PC (using Windows 95 or later) and includes the following activities: - Two games that can also played using the Power of Ten ten-frame cards
- Visual clues in a technology format to help beginning or struggling students develop a sense of “tenness”. The main activity is designed to help students learn to add ten, and then to move to adding any number to 9. Students who do not understand can use a “help” key which assists them to recognize that borrowing 1 from the other number helps make nine into ten thus making the question easier. The activity then moves to adding numbers to 8 and then to 5. Eventually all the addition facts are covered.
- An activity to help students order numbers using the Power of Ten ten-frame cards.
- A multiple tracking system so students’ growth can be tracked.
There are plans to have a separate CD for ‘subtraction’ available by the fall of 2009. Anyone who owns the previous CD can apply the original purchase price toward the purchase of the new CD when it is available. Ordering InformationClick HERE to order this product Power of Ten Place Value and Problem Solving Card The sheet of laminated numbers helps students create numbers and then break them up to add and subtract. There are several activities included to help students make connections to their name and special holidays. 
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