Addition and Subtraction in First Grade

While working with this adorable first grader, she bounced off and gathered up a couple of pencils and a pair of scissors. Just another off-task little kiddo, I thought...until I realized what she was doing. She put both of her hands down with her stuff in between. She was trying to represent the number 13 but didn't have enough fingers so grabbed some objects to help. How brilliant! How many kids have I worked with that say they can't do the problem if the numbers are too large? My other thought is, since these kiddos have moved on to numbers past being able to represent on their fingers, it is nearing time for a counting on strategy. Grab my counting on practice pages here>> http://bit.ly/1PjQOD1
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