The Fact Tactics™ Fluency Program: Building Reasoning Skills for Multiplication in Grades 3–6 (Teach students more than fact recall. Help them learn to make sense of multiplication.)

Book Synopsis: How can students achieve an understanding of multiplication that allows them to go beyond recall to explain their thinking? Author and mathematics education professor Juli Dixon introduces a program that teachers can seamlessly integrate into existing mathematics instruction. Learn six tactics to help you shift from an anxiety-producing, rote-memorization approach to one that helps students actually make sense of multiplication. This book will help classroom teachers, resource teachers, interventionists, coaches, administrators, tutors, and parents of students in grades 3–6:
             Understand the six tactics for completing the Fact Tactics Fluency Program
             Discover how to seamlessly integrate the 20-week program into mathematics instruction
             Give students the tools they need to transcend recall of basic facts and gain procedural fluency so they can explain and justify their thinking
             Gain the process, resources, and assessments to implement the program
             Learn how to support a deep understanding of mathematics beyond the 20-week program
Contents:
  Introduction
  Chapter 1: Making Sense of Fact Strategies for Multiplication
  Chapter 2: Creating a Culture That Promotes Grounded Fluency
  Chapter 3: Fact Tactics Fluency Program Activities
  Epilogue: A Fact Tactics Future
  Appendix A: Fact Tactics Multiplication Fact Cards
  Appendix B: Fact Tactics Mini Assessments
  References and Resources
  Index
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