Why in today\u2019s day and age \u2013 with calculators and computers \u2013 do our kids really need to rote learn their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t this just \u2018old school\u2019?<\/p>\n
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Math facts fluency refers to the ability to recall the basic facts in all four operations accurately, quickly and effortlessly.\u00a0 When students achieve automaticity with these facts, they have attained a level of mastery that enables them to retrieve them for long-term memory without conscious effort or attention.<\/p>\n
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So why focus on math facts?<\/p>\n
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Through automaticity students free up their working memory and can devote it to problem solving and learning new concepts and skills.\u00a0 Quite simply, a lack of fluency in basic math fact recall significantly hinders a child\u2019s subsequent progress with problem-solving, algebra and higher-order math concept.<\/p>\n
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Math facts are important because they form the building blocks for higher-level math concepts.\u00a0 When a child masters his\/her math facts, these concepts will be significantly easier and the student will be better equipped to solve them faster.\u00a0 If the child spends a lot of time doing the basic facts, he\/she is more likely to be confused with the processes and get lost in their calculations.<\/p>\n
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In later elementary, students have longer and more complicated computations to complete to check their understanding of various concepts.\u00a0 At this stage, if a student does not have his\/her math facts committed to memory, he\/she will spend a disproportionate amount of time figuring out the smaller calculations and risk not completing the test.\u00a0 This not only affects their performance in math class, but will also in other subjects, such as science and geography.<\/p>\n
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