The 'Make A Ten' Strategy is a simple yet effective, easy to remember system for working out multiplication in mental arithmetic circumstance. We will give a brief detailing below (and it will be brief, as it's so easy to do!), using the sum '89 + 24' - First, you must change one number to a … Read more

"Near doubles" are 2 consecutive numbers. For example: 2 and 3, 7 and 8, 11 and 12.  Therefore, 4 + 5 are near doubles.

'Near doubles' are simply numbers that are nearly the same as another. For example, 3 and 4 are  'near doubles' because 3 is nearly a double of 4!

Near doubles - A strategy derived from the "doubles addition facts." For example, a child might solve 3 + 4 by noting that 3 + 3 = 6, so 3 + 4 must be 1 more than 6, or 7.