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Making connections through math.  How the different strands are connected and how operations are woven through out.

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Rote memorization and lots of drills!

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Lots of practice.

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Now: my students are introduced to many different strategies, and they choose what they are comfortable with.  They also teach the class strategies they are comfortable with.

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Guided groups, multiple methods, hands on and privately so nobody is embarrassed.

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questions 1-30 a-f for homework

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My students use the strategies that they are comfortable with.  They learn in different ways and shouldn't be limited to just one strategy.

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explicit

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What is around the world!??

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around the world.  we never used manipulatives

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drill and kill

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You were taught how to do it and then practice, practice practice

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algorithms - 'borrowing' from the tens

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Presenting more than one algorithm,  relating math to every day problem solving, working with peers to learn from others.

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Strategy building, centres, math games, video hooks, guided groups, allowing students to show a variety of solutions and then explain their thinking

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I teach with showing multiple methods, showing how they are interconnected, and let students have the choice to use the method they feel most comfortable with.  I don't care what way they do it, as long as they give me the right answer

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My Grade 4 teacher felt comfortable enough to break down "how" the operations actually worked

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Flash cards and copying math facts off the black board over and over and over...

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speed practice for times tables and we would win a quarter if we were the fastest!

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sheets and sheets of math questions

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Playing around the world with basic operations.

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mad minutes

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What is around the world? Sounds kinda fun

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Mad minutes/speed math

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math minute sheets

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Memorization, daily practice every school year, flash cards, games in class, competitions in class

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introduction to basic math operations, repetition

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locked in room until memorized, also used flash cards..  i seem ok ...so far

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memorization  of math facts without relating it to every day problem solving :(

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Flash cards and playing "Around the World" (embarrassing for those who didn't know their multiplication facts)

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Repetition and drills

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Flash cards and drills

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drills, drill, drills

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memorization, minute math, drills

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with drill sheets, not necessarily

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I learned by rote and repetition. Concepts were drilled in. In some ways, they really helped, but in other ways did not leave me with a growth mindset for math.

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In elementary school many of our math lessons focused on memorization, algorithms and with a couple of teachers sporadic strategies, but usually only when you struggled or presented a different way of solving.

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Repetition!  Drills!  One strategy!

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Rote memory and repetition

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I learned basic math operations through rote learning and memorization.  I feel this actually helped my learning, as it gave me the basic tools to solve problems, allowing me to focus on the problem at hand rather than worrying about the calculation.

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How did you learn basic math operations when you were a kid? Did this help or hinder your learning in this area? How do you teach basic math operations now?