Why the “Make 10” Strategy is WAY better than “Doubles” Strategy for Fact Fluency

When helping kids develop Fact Fluency I believe in focusing on 4 Types of Facts and then how those facts are related to all the other facts.

You may have seen the chart below in previous posts of mine, but this chart shows those 4 Types of Facts: Doubles (orange), Make 10 (green), 10 plus something (blue), and Plus Zero (purple).

Although each of these types of facts are helpful to develop, I believe that the Make 10 facts are more powerful than any of the others…especially doubles….and for some reason textbooks seem to give more emphasis to the doubles facts.

In the video below, I tell you why I think putting more of an emphasis on Make 10, rather than Doubles, will help your kiddos out with not only their fact fluency but all addition they do.