Teach struggling students a counting-up strategy for calculation and missing-number word problems¶

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Description¶

The tutoring sessions focus on "counting up" strategies in which students start with the bigger number and add or subtract on their fingers. Students also learn to solve word problems by finding missing numbers. This concrete, finger-based procedure is the core instructional content of each tutoring session.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Delivered within one-to-one tutoring sessions of 20-30 minutes with a trained tutor

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

Third graders struggling with math calculations and word problems

Target Learning Goals¶

Arithmetic calculation
Word problem solving

Examples¶

Key Sources¶

Pirate Math. (2021). Evidence for Learning program summary. https://evidenceforessa.org/program/pirate-math/

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`id`	`counting-up-strategy-tutoring`
`title`	`Teach struggling students a counting-up strategy for calculation and missing-number word problems`
`description`	`The tutoring sessions focus on "counting up" strategies in which students start with the bigger number and add or subtract on their fingers.`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:wiki-ingest` on `2026-10-07`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `pirate-math-2021`

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