Learning your basic facts

Basic facts are your 0's (zeros) and 1's. Now the basic facts that we are talking about
right now is addition. This still applies with multiplication though.

First you need to help your kids know that any number plus 0 is that number.
Remember that we want to keep these numbers under 10.
1+0=1; 2+0=2; 3+0=3; and so forth up to 10.
When your kid understands this and gets it right all the time move on to 1's.
(Note: your kids should be able to count fairly good at this point.)

When we move on to 1's we are just count up one. Remember to make this point that they are just counting by one when we add by one.
1+1=2; 1+2=3; 1+3=4; 1+4=5 and so forth up to 10.

Practice practice practice is what your kids need.   Let them use their fingers there is nothing wrong with that, or use macaroni, beans or things like that.

Don't worry about subtraction at this point, your kids need to get this down first.

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