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Computational Fluency...What's next?
Don't forget to continue reviewing the break apart, open number line, making 10, doubles, etc.
Also, remember to be using word problems throughout this unit. We will not test multi-step on this test.
Aimsweb Probes
In their book, Small Steps, Big Changes, authors Confer and Ramirez state that, “Part of the teacher’s task is to help students become intentional learners.” To support that task, they outline four steps educators should take:
- convey the message over and over again that “Smart is not something you are; smart is something you get”: “It’s possible.”
- explicitly help students become personally invested in their own learning until they understand that success will have a positive effect on their choices today, next year, and throughout their lives: “I want”
- help students set achievable goals and track their own movement toward success: “I can.”
- share examples and stories from this class that illustrate the payoff of effort: “I will.”
Something to think about...
"A lack of fact fluency can be crippling for emerging mathematicians. Students who don’t understand number relationships struggle to use mathematics to solve problems, because they are using all of their mental energy on basic facts. A strategy based approach for learning facts leads to automaticity while at the same time it helps students understand how numbers are related. But instruction needs to go hand-in-hand with practice to build speed and fluency." -Donna Boucher
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