Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Fast Facts Fluency

We began the year in Math working on our Multiplication Fast Facts. It is important for fourth graders to be automatic with these facts in order to be successful in Math this year. We have spent a lot of time working on strategies for remembering these. We have learned songs from Schoolhouse Rock, finger tricks, patterns, and rhymes to help us. We also played "I Have, Who Has" a game where students must listen to multiplication problems to see if they have a card with the answer.
For example-
"6 times 6 has 3 6s. 6 x  6 = 36"
"6 and 8 went on a date, when they came back they were 48. 6 x 8 = 48"
"I ate and ate and got sick on the floor. 8 x 8 = 64"
"6 and 7 were sad and blue. 6 x 7 = 42"
 The nine trick:








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