What is math fluency?
It is more than memorizing math facts and recalling answers to questions. Rather, it is...
Ultimately, we want our students to be flexible, use appropriate strategies, solve problems accurately, and find the right answers. WHEW! That's a lot! But how do we do this? TIP #1 - Frequent Math Lessons & Practice When children are taught math and are given opportunities to practice skills daily, their math understanding develops. Having daily whole group lessons, small group lessons, and independent activities, will help build confidence with new skills. Ideas for Daily Math
TIP #2 - Provide VarietyIt is beneficial early on to provide many opportunities to experience math in different ways. This happens through a variety of activities, assignments, and lessons, as well as ways of teaching. Ideas for Providing Variety
TIP #3 - Make Math Fun & EngagingIf a child enjoys what they are doing during a math block, they will be more engaged in the lesson. They will be eager to listen, try new things, and complete assignments. They will learn more if they are having fun. Ideas for Making Math Fun & Engaging
Ideas for Building Mental Math Skills
Ideas for Teaching Problem Solving Strategies
Want more ideas? Read in depth about these 5 TIPS FOR BUILDING MATH FLUENCY.
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The PDF file located below, is an excellent resource for K-1 teachers to teach math fluency and pattern recognition. It will definitely help our students do well on the Aimsweb Plus screener with automaticity of patterns. It can also be an activity idea during morning meetings. Fair? Not fair? by Toni Cameron 1. Students sit on the rug. 2. What does it mean when something is fair? Not fair? Quiet thinking. Turn and talk. Share out. Give example(s). 3. Explain activity – you will show a picture of two students’ snacks and they will have to decide whether or not they think it is fair or not fair. 4. Teach children the signals for showing whether a snack is fair or not fair (thumbs up if the snack is fair and thumbs down if the snack is not fair. 5. Show the image quickly. (Not so quickly at first). You can do 3-5 slides a day. 6. You can either go through the series of pics you chose for the day and then go back to discuss math thinking, stop when there seems to be disagreement or when you want to ask questions to challenge student thinking. 7. All answers may not be about math. I intentionally created some that way. It may be unfair to some because of preference of snack and that’s okay.
https://stevewyborney.com/2019/02/20-days-of-number-sense-rich-math-talk/
Produced by Steve Wyborney 20 Days of Number Sense & Rich Math Talk – for all grades from K-12, allowing you to deeply explore 4 rich math routines. By downloading each day, you can have a clear pathway to presenting rich number sense and math discourse opportunities to your students. Additionally, each day contains multiple levels, so that a 2nd grade teacher, a 5th grade teacher, and a high school teacher can all be using the same file – and can all have access to other grade levels. The opportunities to differentiate across levels abound in this series as well as the opportunities to see into other grade levels from K-12. |
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