What is Math Fluency?

When you hear "math fluency," what does it mean? Fluency refers to the automatic recall of math facts. Your child begins kindergarten practicing number recognition in a variety of ways. As the years progress, children are learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide using various strategies. Once the strategies aren't needed any more and your child can quickly and accurately tell you the answer to a math fact, they are fluent! In the upper grades, things like muti-digit addition & subtraction, simplifying fractions, and larger multiplication and division problems are all ways to show fact fluency.

The games and activities on this page are just some of the many ways you can practice fact fluency with your child. There are many apps available to download for free. You can also practice fluency with real-world games and activities. Some ideas can be found here.

You can practice fact fluency in many different ways. The important thing is that your child spends some time at home practicing their facts in order to help with bigger concepts. Kids should have fun with fact practice and understand why they are learning their facts. It's something that they will carry with them as they move throughout the grade levels.