Facts, facts, facts, students need to know them. We practice them on a daily basis and we don't just use flash cards and memorization; we play games!
I teach at a small rural school with great kids.
Our school is comprised of a large population of Native American children and significant percentage of students who are on free and reduced lunch. My second graders are in my class for fifty minutes and my third and fourth graders are in my class for seventy minutes. I try to teach math in engaging ways using songs, games, books, technology, and station work. Students often work in small groups, large group, partners, and independently. My students love practice their learning though different mediums. At this age students need to be able to move around and discuss with classmates their thinking. Games, projects, and station work provides students these opportunities to learn in ways they enjoy.
My Project
Fact fluency is a critical foundation to math education. Students need to practice their facts on a daily basis. Doing flashcards can be redundant and boring. I am using a traditional tool in a nontraditional way. In my classroom students are using flashcards to play games to practice facts. When students play games to learn facts they can think about strategies to solve facts which leads to recall. Fact games provide students an engaging way to practice facts and allows them to support and interact other classmates. Students are engaged, practicing facts, and having fun.
Having a class set of flashcards would provide students a way to practice their facts in nontraditional ways.
Students are engaged and working hard on developing their fact fluency. Fact fluency is important to math foundation. If students are not fluent with their facts it makes the next stages of math more difficult. Learning how to multiply multi-digit numbers is harder for students if they have to stop and think about basic facts instead of concentrating on the new process.
Half of students from low‑income households
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