Increasing Multiplication Fact Fluency

Grouping Students:

  • Tier I (knows 80% of the 55 facts)

  • Tier II (knows 1, 10, 5, 2 and about 50% of the rest)

  • Tier III (knows less than 50% of facts and does not know 10, 5, or 2)

Tier I: 

  • games to build number sense and apply strategies involving the properties of operations, e.g., If I know, than I know 

Tier II:

  • Games to reinforce and build where students have 80%+ automaticity

  • Strategies to develop deeper conceptual understanding where students have less than 80% automaticity

Tier III:

  • Revisiting the concept of multiplication consistently using visual models and math tools

  • Games from practicing concepts and strategies

  • Strategic exposure to facts in select sequence

Focus: Strategies and structure that can be implemented to increase math fact fluency.

Articles:

Presentation:

Multiplication Grid

Ideas for Multiplication Building Fact Fluency and Conceptual Understanding

Grid Games

Subitizing - Multiplication

Christine King