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Early Steps Count: Teaching Arithmetic to Prepare Students for Algebra

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Knowledge Packet for "Borrow and Trade" Approach

This is graphic of a Knowledge Packet which shows how an American teacher might think about teaching subtraction. It contains only 5 related procedures and concepts. These are "Procedure for subtracting Numbers with Regrouping," which rests on "Procedure for subtracting Numbers without Regrouping," which rests on "Subtraction Facts." These are supported by "Addition Facts" and "Addition and subtraction are inverse Operations."