Chalkboard arithmetic may have been a mainstay of my
childhood, but for my child, they are a novelty and made for a morning of
mathematical amusement.
She quickly created the template. The five chalkboard stickers served to clearly distinguish
addends, symbols, and sum. Quickly
I realized that we had never worked through a written equation so we
brought in the bears. Three bears
joining four bears at a party is way more fun and less abstract than
3+4=7.
Totals in the double digits gave her pause,
but she figured them out.
