More about multiplication fact fluency
A study of over 10 million children found that the lowest achieving students focused on memorization and the highest achieving students focused on big ideas and connections between ideas.
(From Fluency Without Fear by Jo Boaler)
Here are more details about a strategy for working on multiplication fact fluency
Image above from "Three Steps to Mastering Multiplication Facts" by Kling and Bay-Williams.
Here are some places to find out more about learning multiplication facts:
This presentation by Jennifer Bay-Williams contains some great information about addition, subtraction, and multiplication fluency. Multiplication begins on slide 50.
If you would like to know more about multiplication facts, read Fluency Without Fear by Jo Boaler.
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