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, ...

Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see the ...

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), ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Researchers have documented the positive effects of classwide peer tutoring on academic performance, engagement, and other social behaviors of ...