Math Fluency




Standard 6 Objective 1: Learn new words through listening and reading widely

1.     One way to help with fluency in Math is by having your students make flash cards of vocabulary words and terms you are using for each chapter.

Flash Card Words

Prime numbers

Whole Numbers

Exponents

Expanded Form

             Dividend Divisor


2.     Another way you can help with a child's fluency is by having them learn the symbols in Math.  For example you can have a "Math Wall" with different symbols.  This way they will know the terms for symbols in Math and even understand word problems better because of this.  You could also make blocks with the different symbols in Math and have the students say out loud what the Math problem is asking you to do through the symbols (for example; 5 + 4 = 9, and they would say five plus four equals nine). 

Symbols

Plus Sign

Subtract Sign

Divide Sign

Times Sign

Percent Sign

X Sign

 

3.     Another way you could help students with fluency would be by having them read with expression.  This not only can be done with word problems, but also by distinguishing and sounding out words.  You can emphasize a word more by understanding the property of even the symbol.

Emphasize

Times Sign

Add Sign

De-emphasize

Subtract Sign

Divide Sign

 

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