How Children Build Automaticity in Math

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A hot topic inside of the Build Math Minds Facebook group is always fact fluency. Recently, Lori posted asking about how children build automaticity in math, and that sparked some heated comments, let’s just say that.  People are very passionate about helping...

How Number Sense Impacts Math Fluency

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Well, math fact fluency is a big deal in elementary school. It’s one of those things that people cringe when a child does not have it. You’ll hear things like, “Kids these days don’t know their facts.” How many times have you heard that?...

Number Routines Are Not A Time To Teach, They Are A Time To Listen

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Number routines have become popular in the elementary schools, but do you know what they are and how to use them properly? I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist and today, we’re gonna take a look at How Number Routines Are Not A Time To...

The Key to Developing Young Math Problem Solvers

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Math is typically seen as a set of isolated skills and procedures for kids to learn in a very sequential order. Usually, problem solving comes after we teach kids those skills and procedures. But I have a guest vlogger today who wants us to change that. I’m...

The Flexibility Formula

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In last week’s video, I shared how flexibility is the missing piece to building students’ math fluency. Well, a big question was how do we actually build that flexibility for students? I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today...

The Missing Piece in Math Fluency

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Now, everyone inside and even outside of education thinks that kids need to be fluent in math, but our ideas of what that means are not always the same. I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist and today I’m sharing The Missing Piece in Math...

The Best Math Assessment Tool That Informs Instruction

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I get asked a lot, what I recommend for assessing students’ math understanding. The answer is really based upon what you are using it for. I know that we have requirements for the types of math assessments that we have to give, but often those assessments really...