The Basic Facts Drill Book for Addition and Subtraction
Students need lots of drill on the basic math facts to truly master them. This reproducible book will help make it easy for you to give your students all the drill they need on the addition problems from 0+0 to 9+9 and the corresponding subtraction facts.
This book has over 120 drill pages.
- There are plenty of practice problems on each page.
- There are no complicated directions.
- There are many drill pages that emphasize the difficult problems.
- There are pages of pictures in the back that can be included on the drill pages for decoration or variety.
- You can copy the drill pages as many times as needed.
Give your child lots of drill on the basic facts this year
and ...
- his or her speed and accuracy will improve.
- the amount of time required to take a test will decrease, giving your child more time to check his or her work.
- the difficulty of long math problems will almost vanish.
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