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Ideas for teaching basic arithmetic operations

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A Amarnath S

I am teaching basic arithmetic operations of integers - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division - to a middle school student. and am looking for innovative ways to teach these operations, in an easy-to-understand manner. Finding that the student at hand tends to repeat the mistakes, and is finding it difficult to learn; perhaps there's a basic fear instinct about mathematics in general. How to get the child overcome such fear, and make him successful? Any ideas are welcome, am open to experimentation here. Thanks a lot.
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Matt Bond

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Use M&M's for addition and subtraction. When they get it right, they can eat one.

Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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