Tag: Number Fluency
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Ditch the flashcards: play these fun games instead!
There’s only one word to describe Alissa’s math workshop last week: ENLIGHTENING! It certainly provided us with a lens into today’s math teaching and methodology. The content was illuminating and the Q&A session covered thought-provoking topics. As promised, Alissa is sharing some of her top number fluency games to keep the math conversation going at…
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Raising Fluent Mathematicians
In my last post, I introduced the notion of developing number fluency for our young mathematicians in order to help them be flexible, accurate, and efficient in their numerical problem solving. But what does it actually mean to be fluent in mathematics? And how do we support the growth of a fluent mathematician? Let’s take…