Number Strings Resources
Why Number Strings?
Number Strings/Problem Strings are powerful learning opportunities for students. Strings help students discover patterns and relationships as well as engage with the properties of operations in a way that helps them to understand the properties (even if they can’t name them).
Typically strings start with an easier problem and build towards harder problems. In Number Talks these strings are done mentally. In Number Strings or Problem Strings students often are recording their thinking in a math journal. Mixing both types of strings throughout your instruction will help students become well rounded in their calculation skills.
Discussing strategies for solving strings is a great way to expose students to different ways of thinking and sometimes new models for recording thinking.
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