Today Maya practiced her 9x tables and took an untimed drill, since she's just beginning. Then she reviewed yesterday's skills learned, for additional practice. We went over her hw, also. Then Maya learned how to compute addition problems using mental math in Lesson 2-2. This is still a little difficult for Maya. We will continue to practice. She is learning to break apart numbers, to make them easy to add in her mind. This is just another stategy for solving addition problems. I've explained that she can draw a picture, set up the problem horizontally, use the number chart or use mental math. In FF, Maya played the brain game Paint Match, where she used auditory and memory recall skills, combined with decoding skills.