# Practice Adding Single Digit Numbers\[Dface\]
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988
**Category:** Mini Projects
**Created:** [December 21, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988 "2024-12-21T08:31:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988/1 "2024-12-21T08:31:49Z")
**Project Summary:**
Practice adding single digit numbers
**Goal:**
Get slightly faster at adding single digit numbers
**Success criteria (& optional failure criteria):**
The at the end of the practice is faster than the time at the beginning of the practice
**Big picture goal, why you want to do this, or CF relevance:**
Practice small skills, impress friends and family, build up to bigger skills.
**Plan:**
Go to [The Math Worksheet Site.com -- Addition: Numbers up to 20](https://themathworksheetsite.com/add_single_digit.html)
create a worksheet with random problems
time myself for one sheet of problems(20 problems)
practice for 10 mins
then time myself again after practicing
**Context:** (optional – fill out or delete the context section)
Sometimes i use math and add numbers for friends or family. I sometimes have to add numbers in a game. I would like to practice adding to have an easier time
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988/2 "2024-12-21T08:52:09Z")
Time of first set of 20 random addition problems: 14.59 seconds
After ten minutes of practice: 12.47 seconds
**Success criteria (& optional failure criteria):**
> [@Dface](#):
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> The at the end of the practice is faster than the time at the beginning of the practice
My time at end of the practice is shorter so I got the success criteria. I think next time I’ll try to check differences between the first and last test. Since the worksheets are random I could get easy questions on the first test and get harder questions on the last. Maybe next time I can take a pic and time myself on the same pic in the end.
**Goals:**
> [@Dface](#):
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> Get slightly faster at adding single digit numbers
The time was faster but I don’t know for sure if I got it with the same difficulty.
**Other notes:**
I might try this one more time try and then practice adding one constant addend and with a random addend. That way the practice is more controlled
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988/3 "2024-12-21T21:06:55Z")
Attempt #2:
After practicing, I’m gonna take a picture of the first worksheet I timed myself on, and time myself on that worksheet at the end of the practice.
Time of first set of 20 addition problems: 11.75 seconds
Time of first set of 20 addition problems after practice: 11.39 ( I missed tapping stop on the stopwatch so I think the time is acutally ~11.0 seconds when I actually finished)
**Success criteria (& optional failure criteria):**
> [@Dface](#):
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> The at the end of the practice is faster than the time at the beginning of the practice
The time at the end of practice was faster than at the beginning so I was successful.
**Goals:**
> [@Dface](#):
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> Get slightly faster at adding single digit numbers
You know what I still can’t kind of tell if I’m getting faster at adding single digit numbers, but I did get faster on adding one of the worksheets so that means something.
**Other notes:**
I thought I was going choke and mess up my adding at the last test, but I felt calmer and saw myself add without trying so hard. That was nice. Going at a consistent pace like that is similar to typing when I think about it.
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988/4 "2024-12-26T20:20:26Z")
Attempt #3:
Modifications to the project:
> [@Dface](#):
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> After practicing, I’m gonna take a picture of the first worksheet I timed myself on, and time myself on that worksheet at the end of the practice.
Time of first set before practice: 10.80 sec
Time of first set after practice: 10.42 sec
**Success criteria (& optional failure criteria):**
> [@Dface](#):
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> The at the end of the practice is faster than the time at the beginning of the practice
The time at the end of practice was faster than at the beginning so I was successful.
**Goals:**
> [@Dface](#):
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> Get slightly faster at adding single digit numbers
I think I’m getting faster at adding.
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988/5 "2024-12-28T21:34:51Z")
Attempt #4:
Time of first set before practice: 12.78 sec
Time of first set after practice: 13.56 sec
**Success criteria (& optional failure criteria):**
> [@Dface](#):
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> The at the end of the practice is faster than the time at the beginning of the practice
The time at the end wasn’t faster.
**Goals:**
> [@Dface](#):
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> Get slightly faster at adding single digit numbers
Idk about the goal, but I know I’m getting more accurate. I just gotta go at a slower pace.
**Other notes:**
I noticed trying to get faster at a skill is a lot like trying to get faster at typing. Like you can go slower and be more accurate, and trying to get a faster time is harder and you can make more mistakes.
I was thinking maybe practicing “time” can be a good skill for practice in general. That way you know you cut the time you do a skill by say a tenth of a second instead of just thinking, “oh, im going a little faster” and have it be arbitrary.
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-adding-single-digit-numbers-dface/1988/6 "2025-01-05T21:44:06Z")
Attempt #5:
Time of first set before practice: 12.19 sec
Time of first set after practice: 12.31 sec
**Success criteria (& optional failure criteria):**
> [@Dface](#):
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> The at the end of the practice is faster than the time at the beginning of the practice
I did not get a faster time, but I know I could go faster. I think I got nervous when timing myself again, cuz when I tried doing the first set a 3rd time without putting pressure on myself I was able to do it 9.91 seconds.
**Goals:**
> [@Dface](#):
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> Get slightly faster at adding single digit numbers
I think I’m ok with not going faster for now. I already moved on to adding 1 two digit addend and 1 single digit addend. I’ll make a project it for soon.