| When should students be expected to know their basic facts? |
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| updated February 27, 2008 |
Helping children learn the basic facts is an important goal in the Everyday Mathematics Curriculum. Most children should have developed an automatic recall of the basic addition and subtraction facts by the end of the second grade. They should also know most of their 1, 2, 5, and 10 multiplication facts by this time.
By the end of the fourth grade most students should have an automatic recall of all the basic multiplication facts and be familiar with the basic division facts. Multiplication and division facts are reinforced at the beginning of fifth grade.
The Everyday Mathematics curriculum employs a variety of techniques to help children develop their "fact power", or basic number-fact reflexes.
These include:
* Practice Through Games
* Fact Triangles and Fact Families
* Home Links homework assignments.
* 50-Facts Multiplication Tests
* Choral Drills and Mental Math Exercises
* Math Boxes
* Fact Extension Practice
* Frames and Arrows Diagrams
* What's My Rule? Function Machines
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Cooke Elementary School
Jon Hanbury and Sherry Trach
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