What is and why is math fluency important?

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2. What isand why is math fluency important? Math fact fluency is the quick and effortless (automatic) recall of basic math facts. When students achieve automaticity with these facts, they have attained a level of mastery that enables them to retrieve them from long-term memory without conscious effort or attention. Students have only so much “working memory,” and if they are using that memory to think about and solve basic facts, they don’t have enough working memory left to tackle and solve higher level problems and to learn new concepts. Knowing facts fluently frees up working memory to work on more difficult tasks. Arkansas Public School Resource Center

3. Mathematics Fluency: A Balanced Approach Arkansas Public School Resource Center

5. Required Fluencies in K-6 Arkansas Public School Resource Center

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7. If then, Fluency is NOT: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Arkansas Public School Resource Center

8. Quick Images Quick Images can help students to develop understanding of quantity. Being able to conceptualize a number in a variety of ways will help students to use numbers flexibly, which is an important facet of number sense. The teacher briefly shows an image of a quantity (dot images and ten frames are often used). Showing the image for only a brief amount of time encourages students to subitize and discourages counting by ones. Students are asked to identify the quantity they saw and to describe the image. How many did you see? How did you see it? How did you know it was four? Arkansas Public School Resource Center

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10. What materials do you already have available to you? What do you need? What can you find “for free” via Open Educational Resources (OER)? How will you systematically incorporate fluency practice? Arkansas Public School Resource Center