Math Learning Style Strategies

Auditory strategies

• songs or rhymes of number facts
• reading questions aloud
• verbalizing thinking processes while solving problems
• mnemonic clues: “Big number on the Bottom means Borrow (BBB) rule in subtraction”

Visual strategies

• flash cards
• colour coding
• stoplight addition (ones column is green, tens column is yellow, hundreds column is red: start on green, stop on red)

Kinesthetic strategies

• manipulatives (flash cards, buttons, Lego)
• use actual coins, cheque book, pie cut in fractions, and so on
• board and card games

Handout 9.3