I strongly ENCOURAGE and SUGGEST daily fact fluency practice in all four operations!

• Students need to understand Addition in order to understand multiplication.

• Students need to understand Subtraction in order to understand division.

• Students should understand that multiplication and division are inverse operations

• Students need to know how & when to use all 4 operations!! Next year they'll work on word problems that involve multiple steps!

• Division and fractions are also related! Each whole is being divided into equal parts (the denominator tells how many pieces it's divided into)