Fluency in math

1. Having a specific schedule to help the children in your classroom to learn fluent math, will help a teacher and a child to keep you focusing on each day to make math more clear and understandable… so here it is:

Monday: Make it clear

Tuesday: Take it, Use it

Wednesday: Work on it

Thursday: Think it through

Friday: Fix and finish

2. Aerobic Place Value Cards - The tool to show the meaning of place value. When was the last time students asked you to play a math game? The Aerobic Place Value Cards are a great way to make place value come alive in the classroom. They are designed to help students really understand place value as you teach how numbers standardize and expand in a powerful but fun way. The cards are used as an active tool in the classroom, as students move in response to numbers called out by the teacher.

Some examples would be whole numbers and decimal cards.

• Whole Number Cards show ones, tens, hundreds, thousands through 9,999.
• Decimal Cards show tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and ten thousandths through .9999 and can be used with the other two sets of cards.

3. Flashcards are a great way of helping a child to be fluent in math. I know that these can be very helpful for a child. We of course would have fractions and decimals, maybe using place value and reducing fractions etc.