How can students achieve an understanding of multiplication that allows them to go beyond recall to explain their thinking? Author and mathematics education professor Juli Dixon introduces a program that teachers can seamlessly integrate into existing mathematics instruction. Learn six tactics to help you shift from an anxiety-producing, rote-memorization approach to one that helps students actually make sense of multiplication.
This book will help classroom teachers, resource teachers, interventionists, coaches, administrators, tutors, and parents of students in grades 3-6:
- Understand the six tactics for completing the Fact Tactics Fluency Program
- Discover how to seamlessly integrate the 20-week program into mathematics instruction
- Give students the tools they need to transcend recall of basic facts and gain procedural fluency so they can explain and justify their thinking
- Gain the process, resources, and assessments to implement the program
- Learn how to support a deep understanding of mathematics beyond the 20-week program
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Fact Strategies for Multiplication
Chapter 2: Creating a Culture That Promotes Grounded Fluency
Chapter 3: Fact Tactics Fluency Program Activities
Epilogue: A Fact Tactics Future
Appendix A: Fact Tactics Multiplication Fact Cards
Appendix B: Fact Tactics Mini Assessments
References and Resources
Index