A Tale of Two Basic Fact Fluency Stories with Ryan Flessner
Basic fact fluency is a great big topic and I’m gearing up for a few episodes - or many, we’ll see - to talk about it. I don’t have any documented evidence to support this, but in my 20 years of having a leadership role of some kind in schools the quote, “My kids don’t know their facts” is a statement I hear over and over again. When I ask what they’re doing to teach facts sometimes they answer that they are giving timed tests; other times, they say “well we aren’t allowed to give timed tests, so I don’t do anything.”
Here’s the deal. A timed test doesn’t *teach* basic fact fluency. It…
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