Smart Subtractions Stick Kids Workbook, Grade 1 (Stick Kids Workbooks)

Upon your childs completion of each activity, use the provided incentive chart and stickers to track progress and celebrate your childs success.

Whether students need extra practice with grade-level skills or a head start on next year, Stick Kids® Workbooks offer engaging activities, games, and puzzles that help make learning lots of fun. Each 56-page book features full-color activities, a list of the skills, and an explanation of why those skills are important for development. Also included are helpful tips, an answer key, a handy tracking sheet, stickers for acknowledging achievements, and appearances by the lovable Stick Kids!

These right-sized (7 x 9) skill practice workbooks are perfect for use at school, or as entertaining activities on the go. Tuck them into a backpack, purse, or travel bag. Great for school breaks, vacations, and year-long practice.

SKILLS

• Subtraction facts to 20
• Counting backward to subtract
• Using a number line to subtract
• Fact families

HOW YOU CAN HELP SUPPORT LEARNING

• Encourage your child to use manipulatives, such as paper clips, beans, coins, and counting blocks, to model problems and connect meaning to the written words and symbols.
• Have your child draw pictures to represent the data or draw a number line to assist with tricky problems.
• Assist your child in identifying key math terms, such as take away, from, difference, more than, and fewer than.
• Have your child use addition to check answers to subtraction problems.
• Ask your child to explain his or her answers.
• Give hints rather than solutions to particularly tricky problems.