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If your students are struggling with fact fluency, they could be missing an essential key to math fact mastery: multiplication and division fact families Multiplication and division fact families are so powerful because if students just know one fact, like...
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Easy division facts is often where teachers start when helping their students become fluent with basic division. These are facts that students can easily use patterns to solve. We could just tell students these patterns, but they remember these facts much better when...
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When it comes to how to teach division, we want all students, even those who struggle, to find success with their facts. And that starts by teaching the meaning behind division. No more flash cards or rote memorization. It’s easier to memorize something when we...
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How do you use partial products to multiply? This is a common question for educators and parents trying to help their students learn their multiplication facts. Oftentimes the partial products strategy is first introduced for 2-digit multiplication, but...
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When looking at how to learn multiplication facts quickly, the best way to do that is through a strategy-based approach. We don’t need to kill-and-drill our students with endless flash cards or timed tests. For learning multiplication tables the easy way, we...
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If your students are struggling with the 6 times table up to 100, there’s one strategy that can change everything and it works for the 8 times table too. It’s called Half Then Double, and it helps students solve tough facts in seconds. And the best part, they don’t...
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Multiplication facts of 4 can be easy for students when they use the patterns in our number system to solve and memorize them. It comes by doubling. And our brains love doubling so it makes 4s times tables easy as a result. This is great news because...
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Learning the multiplication facts of 3 doesn’t have to rely on flashcards or rote memorization. In this post, I’ll show you how to teach the 3s times tables using the Doubles + One More Set strategy, so your students build real understanding and fluency that lasts....
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Struggling to help your students actually remember their multiplication facts? You’re not alone. When it comes to how to learn multiplication facts, flashcards and timed tests only go so far. In this post, I’ll walk you through the strategy-based system I use to build...
