Seeing Multiplication – How Subitizing Builds Fact Fluency Through Relationships

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Seeing Multiplication – How Subitizing Builds Fact Fluency Through Relationships Transcript Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to: Seeing Multiplication – How Subitizing Builds Fact Fluency Through Relationships Have you ever watched a student count...

Does Multiplication mean ‘Groups of’?

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Every month inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group, we watch out for a hot topic. Something that sparked a lively debate, a lot of comments, some unsureness or anything that might be interesting to dive a little bit deeper into. Our hot topic this month inside of...

How Children Build Automaticity in Math

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A hot topic inside of the Build Math Minds Facebook group is always fact fluency. Recently, Lori posted asking about how children build automaticity in math, and that sparked some heated comments, let’s just say that.  People are very passionate about helping...

How to Teach Multiplication and Division

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How do we teach multiplication and division with understanding?  A friend of mine got ahold of me because she was concerned that her 4th grade daughter was struggling with division.  Once I dug in a bit I realized that her concern was that her daughter didn’t know how...

Helping Students Use Fingers For Math

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Should kids be using their fingers in math class? I’m getting ready to do some webinars all about how kids get stuck in that phase where they’re counting on their fingers for addition and skip counting on their fingers for multiplication. Every time I do...

How to Use Subitizing | 5 Different Ways

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Have you ever wondered how to use subitizing in your classroom? Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize ‘how many’. Helping our students develop subitizing isn’t just for Pre-K to second grade. Even third through fifth grade kiddos need to develop...