If you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on multiplication fluency, here’s a recap. The multiplication fluency strategies fall into two types: foundational strategies and derivative strategies. The foundational strategies include…
Teach these foundational multiplication fluency strategies so your students can have success with the multiplication facts! In the first part of this series, I wrote that we need to teach mental math strategies for multiplication.…
Have you’ve encountered the student who doesn’t study the multiplication facts? What about the student who learns one multiplication table and then seemingly forgets most of the facts? Then there is the student who studies…
Let me show you the 3 methods I use to conceptually teach multiplication to my third-grade students – and they always work! The gateway to learning algebra and higher forms of mathematics is multiplication or…
What are some of the strategies you teach your students or children to add two and three digit numbers? Do you use compensation? Or do you begin teaching with the standard algorithm? Teaching students to…
