Virtual Flashcards
Building Number Sense
The Virtual Flashcards are designed to help your child build their number sense and fact fluency, both of which are essential skills that all children need in order to further develop as mathematicians. We want all students to be accurate, efficient, and flexible when it comes to solving tasks.
Accurate - It's obvious that accuracy is very important when it comes to math. This is an obvious one!
Efficient - A student should be able to look at a task, choose a good strategy, and come up with an accurate answer in a reasonable amount of time. The speed at which you solve a task is NOT THAT IMPORTANT, HOWEVER, based on the difficulty of the task it should not take an unusual amount of time. If a student does require a long period of time, it's pretty obvious that they need to practice more similar tasks before they have reached mastery.
Flexible - Simply put, a student should never use the same strategy for all similar tasks. Once a student has reached mastery, they can look at a task and choose the most efficient strategy to solve it.
Directions
Choose a skill from the following progression of skills. If you don't know where to start then just start from the top of the list.
Addition & Subtraction (Range of 20)
Addition & Subtraction (Range of 100)
Higher Level Multiplication, Division & Place Value
Whole Number Reasoning & Estimation
Page two on all slides are for parents. This strategy guide provides strategies that your child should use when they are solving a particular task. Feel free to add in your own strategies also. The strategies are recommended but not always the only strategies.
Move on to a new set of flashcards once your child has reached mastery. If you are unsure when this is, look for the following signs:
Your child can accurately solve all tasks in a reasonable amount of time
Your child doesn't require very basic strategies (counting on fingers, requiring paper/pencil) but can choose more advanced strategies
Your child can choose appropriate strategies and is flexible with their choices. Better yet, ask your child for two ways to solve each problem!