🧠Understand Math Fact Fluency (different from speed!)
💻Freckle
All GHMS students have access to Freckle through ClassLink --> Renaissance
If they click on Math, they can work through 2 rounds of Fact Practice each day
👩🏫Ask your child to teach you the strategies they use.
Commutative Property - 4 x7 is the same as 7 x 4. If they know one, they know the other! This immediately halves the facts they need to learn.
The "Nines" Pattern
🃏Games for the Family
🛒Games You Can Purchase
KingDomino - multiplication needed in scoring
The South Carolina Department of Education Office of Assessment and Standards supports students knowing their facts from memory as opposed to memorizing them. Knowing from memory requires students to be able to recall the facts as needed, whereas rote memorization is short term. It is our task to create mathematicians that are fluent with their basic facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). Fluency is not speed. Fluency requires students to be accurate, efficient, and flexible. Our goal is for mathematicians to see relationships between numbers and facts and to use what they know to figure out what they do not know. In addition, we do not recommend that timed tests be used assess basic facts. Research shows that timed tests cause many students to develop math anxiety and a disdain for math. Being fast at math is not equivalent to being good at math. There has been research conducted by NCTM, Jo Boaler, Jennifer Bay-Williams, Gina Kling, Authur Baroody, and countless others that supports the SCDE’s stances. Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling state, “Standards acknowledge that it is through application of strategies that a student develops fluency, and it is through the use of strategies that students come to know their facts or develop automaticity” (2019). This is the goal for our mathematicians in South Carolina. In addition, the 2023 Standards are written to build conceptual understanding (which requires students to make connections between ideas). When taught conceptually and with opportunities for students to see relationships and patterns, fact fluency will develop and ultimately, students will become automatic with their facts, able to recall from memory. Reference Link