Teaching Doubles

Teaching Doubles is one of the main components needed for math fluency and to help develop number sense. The doubles facts is usually the first fact children aged 4, 5 or 6 have memorized. To aid along learning doubles I recommend using real life examples, this is a wonderful way to connect children to this number fact they come across in everyday life, since we see doubles everywhere. Here are some examples;

1 + 1 = two bicycle wheels

2 + 2 = four wheels of a car

3 + 3 = six legs of a ladybird with three legs on both side

4 + 4 = eight legs of a spider with four legs on both sides
5 + 5 = five fingers of both hands equals ten
6 + 6 = a dozen eggs in two rows of six
7 + 7 = a fortnight seven days is a week and two weeks is a fortnight
8 + 8 = a box of sixteen crayons in two rows of eight
9 + 9 = eighteen wheeler truck
10 + 10 = the total of your fingers and toes

For our Math lesson we made a wall display for each double fact to frequent and memorize. 

Some days we would do no paperwork and only recall the math facts we had learnt, by throwing a ball to one another and reciting what we had learnt, 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 + 4. Or I would give her a double equation in random order then trow the ball for her to give an answer. 

We made a doubles board game and had a lot of fun playing.

Math Doubles Kids Board Game 

We would also do a lot of practice paperwork of double equations.

Then once they become more familiar with their double facts we would do quick fire questions against a timer.