While basic addition is introduced in Kindergarten, first, second and third graders often need intervention for addition facts. Having a toolbox full of addition facts strategies will help make the students more comfortable adding which can lead to fact fluency. Addition Facts Strategy: Put Together The very first thing for kids to understand is […]
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Free Websites to Assess Fact Fluency
Fact fluency is an essential background skill in math. Have you ever tried to teach students to add fractions with unlike denominators who don’t know how to multiply? Have you experienced the tedious nature of teaching students who still count on their fingers to add four digit numbers using multiple strategies? So much emphasis in […]
Fact Fluency Screener Freebie
In a perfect world, students would enter a new grade level having already mastered all standards from previous grades. Their fact fluency skills would have prepared them for the next grade. In this imperfect world, we can’t reteach every previous standard. We can, however, make sure our students have their basic fact fluencies. These standards […]
10 Ways to Encourage Multiplication Fact Fluency
Memorizing basic multiplication facts has gotten a bad rep. “Drill and kill.” Teachers feel so much pressure to believe that teaching Common Core Standards means only teaching word problems and higher order thinking. We have to be careful to make sure our students have the basic knowledge they need to tackle those tough math challenges. […]
Math Fact Fluency
Today, I’m linking up for the first time with Teaching Tribune for Two for Tuesday. This year I worked with a group of first graders that were struggling to memorize their facts. They were struggling in their homeroom classes and were discouraged. They needed the facts broken down into small manageable chunks. The first day […]