{"id":248,"date":"2014-06-13T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cmi\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2014-06-17T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:43:54","slug":"math-fluency-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cmi\/math-fluency-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Fluency Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Math Fluency Practice<\/h2>\n<p>We have found that calculation skills of university students have declined significantly. Relative to students educated in the 1980&#8217;s, students who were educated in the 1990&#8217;s had arithmetic fluency scores that were lower by 20% (<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Calculated-Risk.pdf\">A Calculated Risk: Is Arithmetic Skill declining in Canada?<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The challenge in this decline is that development of higher-order math skills is more difficult, if the basic facts aren&#8217;t memorized. If a child has to compute the answers to basic facts, less of that child \u2019s thinking capacity can be devoted to higher level concepts than a student who can effortlessly recall the answers to basic facts.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend practicing math facts with your children in game or time-challenge formats.<\/p>\n<p>The Jump workbooks described above provide practice sheets and reinforcement methods using the fingers.<\/p>\n<p>For the younger child, MathBrain promotes fluency with fun speed games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funbrain.com\/brain\/MathBrain\/MathBrain.html\">www.mathbrain.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For older children, SmartKiddies MasterClass pops up a random sequence of multiplication facts, and displays the time to complete. The Year levels are equivalent to grades &#8211; click on a Year level at the top, and it takes you to all the options for that year. Have your child say the answer out loud before they type it in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studyladder.ca\/?lc_set=\">http:\/\/www.smartkiddies.com\/members\/skillBuilders\/skillBuilderMenu.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number challenge part of the site is fun too (you can pick a particular character to play against, and then try and beat him\/her). Remind your child to press Enter after they type in the answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studyladder.ca\/?lc_set=\">http:\/\/www.smartkiddies.com\/members\/challenge\/numberChallenge.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/winnipeg.jpg\" alt=\"winnipeg\" width=\"180\" height=\"52\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/trent.gif\" alt=\"trent\" width=\"169\" height=\"55\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/ualberta.gif\" alt=\"ualberta\" width=\"170\" height=\"36\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Fluency Practice We have found that calculation skills of university students have declined significantly. Relative to students educated in the 1980&#8217;s, students who were educated in the 1990&#8217;s had arithmetic fluency scores that were lower by 20% (A Calculated Risk: Is Arithmetic Skill declining in Canada?). 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