Today, your child brought home a set of math flashcards. This is the first set of flashcards in our new Spring Math Facts routine. Each Monday, your child will bring home a new sheet of weekly basic math fact flashcards. Our first set of Math flashcards (doubles facts) went home today. Please see that your child cuts these cards out and practices them nightly. Also, please be sure your child does NOT write the answers on the front of the flashcards. They are meant to be used repeatedly for quick, mental recall to develop automaticity. They are welcome to write the answers on the back if they desire. These flash cards do not need to return to school and should be used as an at-home tool to help build math fact fluency.
Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, March 24th, students will complete a three-minute time test focusing on memorizing their basic math facts. As students score a 90%, or higher, they will move onto more challenging math facts. We have spent the first half of the school year working on understanding relationships between numbers and have developed strategies to solve these problems. Now, we move to focus on automaticity. The goal is to memorize all our basic addition and subtraction facts so that we can readily, and easily, solve harder problems as we move into two- and three-digit addition and subtraction.
Please let me know if you have questions. In the meantime, please be sure to practice facts daily. Some fun practice times include: while brushing teeth, during TV commercials, while prepping dinner, in the bath tub, at breakfast time. Build math fact practicing into your already established routine and have fun with it!
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