I’ve spent the last few posts describing how a sixth-grade teacher and I began building fluency with multiplication facts with a group of sixth-grade students. So far, the students have investigated— ...

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 ...

1 UMIT TIROL—Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology, Institute for Psychology, EWZ 1, Hall in Tirol, Austria. 2 Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University, ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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In the DfE multiplication tables check (MTC) framework it states that the purpose of the Year 4 times tables test is to “determine whether pupils can recall their times tables fluently, which is ...

Number facts are commonly assumed to be verbally stored in an associative multiplication fact retrieval network. Prominent evidence for this assumption comes from so-called operand-related errors (e.g ...

An adapted alternating treatments design with initial baseline and final best treatment phase was used to evaluate and compare the effects of two classwide interventions, detect–practice–repair (DPR), ...

ABSTRACT: This study evaluates the effectiveness of a new intervention program with primary school children who show difficulties in solving simple multiplication problems. 64 fourth-grade children ...