A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

Multiplication facts typically describe the answers to multiplication sums up to 10x10. Sums up to 10x10 are called "facts" as it is expected they can be easily and quickly recalled. You may recall ...

Fluency in third grade means knowing, from memory, all products of two one-digit numbers. Your child’s introduction to multiplication is through repeated addition. He will draw an array to visualize, ...

In this video I walk you through how I’m using the Sweet Multiplication kit from TPT to build fact fluency in my third grade class. I show how I organized my tub, the order I teach the facts, and how ...

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