17, 8 ,9

What do these number have in common? They can be used to create a fact family! Last week and this week, we have been taking the 3 numbers of a fact family and finding out the two addition equations and the two subtraction equations. Try this out with your student-on a piece of paper list the 3 numbers in an equations and then draw out four lines. Have your student write out the four equations that are in the family. Focus on correct use of plus, minus and equal sign as well as correct equations.