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ERIC Number: EJ1264540
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jul
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
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Fact Strategy Instruction + Meaningful Discourse = Student Understanding
Thompson, Deborah M.; Gay, A. Susan
Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, v113 n7 p558-564 Jul 2020
Instruction of multiplication facts has been and continues to be an essential part of mathematics curriculum for students in the intermediate grades with the majority of initial instruction at third grade. Teachers often comment that this is a topic that students struggle to master and that they frequently use fluency drills and fact flash cards to promote memorization. However, alternatives are being used with positive results (e.g., Kling and Bay-Williams 2015). These include the use of fact strategies that focus on understanding and sense making and the use of meaningful classroom discourse with teacher questions to guide student thinking. Drawing first on background about fact strategies and classroom discourse, this article explains the work completed with a group of third-grade teachers as the authors investigated how incorporating intentional questions to promote discussion with fact strategy work could have an impact on students' understanding of their multiplication facts.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191. Tel: 800-235-7566; Tel: 703-620-9840; Fax: 703-476-2570; e-mail: publicationsdept@nctm.org; Web site: https://pubs.nctm.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Intermediate Grades; Early Childhood Education; Grade 3; Primary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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