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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