Create Your Own Addition Flash Cards and Print Them
Flash cards are an effective way to help your children or students learn addition. It is a means of learning by repetition and memorization that works. With the explosion of computer ownership, making flash cards no longer requires that you hand write each individual card. In fact, you can make quality addition flash cards using basic word processing programs. Printed flash cards are not only easier to make, they can also be easier to read.
Instructions
1. Draw up an addition table. Writing a master list of addition tables will make creating your flash cards easier. Not only do you have a quick reference for addition problems, you also have a checklist to make sure that you have remembered to make flash cards for each basic addition problem. Number 0 through 9 at the top of a piece of paper and 0 through 9 down the side. Then write the solution for each in the correct place. For example, in the third row down in the ninth column, you will write 12.
2. Set up your table. To print out flash cards, you will require a template in Microsoft Office Word. Click the "Table" drop-down menu. Then select the "Insert" submenu. Click "Table" under the "Insert" submenu. A pop-up window will appear. Create a four-column, four-row table. This will make 16 flash cards per page. Select the radio button "Auto Fit To Window," and then click "OK."
3. Size your table. Your table will drop in not looking very useful. This is, however, easy to fix. Hover your cursor over the table, and you will see a small box in the lower-right corner. Drag this box until it fills the entire page. Stay within your margins. Your table will now resize, automatically keeping the size of each table cell equal.
4. Enter the addition problems. Change your font to Times New Roman, and set the font size to 64. Align your text to the right. Enter addition problems in each individual cell.
5. Enter the solutions. Create a new document for answers. Insert another table. Enter the solutions to the problems in reverse row order in the same column in which they appear. For example, if the problem in the upper-left corner is "1 + 1," the solution "2" will appear in the upper-right corner.
6. Print the problems. Insert some good, heavy card stock into your printer. Click the printer icon.
7. Print the solutions. Take your printed problems. Turn them over the short way (right to left, not up and down) and insert them back into the printer. Make sure that the end that printed first for the problems goes in first for printing the solutions.
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