Fact fluency
How Do You Solve 12-8?
There have always been certain areas of math that are well known to challenge teachers and students. Subtraction. Fractions. Division. All of this is very predictable. However, one area that goes less recognized is Fact Fluency with facts to 20. It’s not as obvious because students are not taking standardized tests to show mastery of …
Fun and Learning are NOT Synonyms
Y’all!!! If you want to make people really hate you…I mean really really get super mad…talk about how songs are not a great idea to teach multiplication facts! I was on a Facebook thread this morning sharing some helpful advice…the stuff I wish people told me when I used to mess this stuff up all …
Finding the START line to get to the FINISH line.
Y’all I was talking to a student today that I worked with at the beginning of the year. She told me-I need help! I need you to come back to my class! I told her that I would be happy to get back in there but her teacher told me that she has grown so …
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The Importance of Early Numeracy Skills
It’s pretty widely known that early literacy skills predict future literacy success. But did you know that early math skills predict academic success even better? In fact, research suggests that early math skills not only predict future mathematics success, but are a better predictor of academic success in language arts than early literacy skills! With …