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Several mornings a week we play ‘target’. This involves mentally calculating a mathematical story to reach a specific number. We can add, subtract or use a mixture of both – as long as we can prove it works! One of our target numbers this week was 25 and we explained how to reach this number using a variety of strategies including counting on and back, using our knowledge of tens and units, doubling and adding on and counting in 5s and 10s. Miss Cauley was very impressed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several mornings a week we play ‘target’. This involves mentally calculating a mathematical story to reach a specific number. We can add, subtract or use a mixture of both – as long as we can prove it works! One of our target numbers this week was 25 and we explained how to reach this number … Continue reading Mental Subtraction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/primary2bps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}