Smart Subtractions Stick Kids Workbook, Grade 1

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.