Whether you are part of a year-round school, you start the beginning of August, or after Labor Day, back-to-school is always an exciting time. I enjoy seeing teachers' posts on Twitter of photos of their classrooms. Their enthusiasm is wonderful, and I am sure it extends to their students as they enter the classroom.
I always look for glimpses of math-related posters or centers. Reading is very important; including learning the sounds to be able to read. I feel the same way about math. Math facts are the keys that open the doors to be able to solve harder computation and word problems.
Ask any teacher or parent if they know students who still need to use counting devices, fingers, or charts to answer basic addition and subtraction facts, or multiplication facts. Ask if this inability affects the student's math grades, speed in finishing math assignments, and general self-esteem in the area of math. Knowing the math facts will ease the students' ability to continue to learn other basic math skills and to solve word problems in all subjects and areas of life.
If you are looking for a good program for math facts mastery, and want to make a difference for your students, Two Plus Two Is Not Five has strategies for addition and subtraction facts, and Five Times Five Is Not Ten is our multiplication workbook. Both workbooks have been helping teachers and parents teach math facts to children for over ten years.
View the sample pages, and search the Blog for strategies to get an idea of why these workbooks do make a difference for children, of any age, who still need to become fluent with math facts. There are two other workbooks. One is for children ready to learn division facts, and the other is for learning more advanced addition and subtraction, beyond math facts.
