Why the “Make 10” Strategy is WAY better than “Doubles” Strategy for Fact Fluency
When helping kids develop Fact Fluency I believe in focusing on 4 Types of Facts and then how those facts are related to all the other facts. You may have seen the chart below in previous posts of mine, but this chart shows those 4 Types of Facts: Doubles (orange),...
Fact Fluency Part 2: Build Number Sense to Build Fact Fluency
Have you ever seen a 5th-grade student count on their fingers to add 7 + 8? Or a 6th grader doing repeated addition on their paper to solve 9 x 7? If you haven’t, I can guarantee you’ve heard the stories from the upper grades teachers during staff meetings as they...Quick Differentiated Math Fact Assessment
Right now we are in the midst of the state assessments, yet as I was helping my Kindergarten son get checked into his classroom I was reminded that the assessments teachers do to inform instruction can be quick and easily differentiated. His teacher decided to put a...
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