Ashley Schroeder
Name
Math Fact Mania: Your Set List of Strategies for Fluency Success (1st)
Session Type
Workshop
Track
1st Grade Experience
Description

Let’s amp up the volume and take math fact fluency to the center stage of your math instruction. Mastering math facts takes routine, rhythm, repetition, and more than one jam session of fact practice. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore a variety of strategies, minimal to no-prep games, and hands-on activities to help students learn and master their addition and subtraction facts with confidence and flair.

From rock star routines to chart-topping chants, you’ll discover creative ways to make fluency practice exciting and effective for young mathematicians. Whether it’s helping students break down multi-step problems or simply hit all the right notes within their fact families, this set list of research-based and student-approved strategies will empower your students to jam out with accuracy and speed.

By the end of our jam session together, you’ll leave with a playlist full of favorite and classroom-tested tools to help your students stay engaged and motivated as they master their math facts. Let’s create a melody of math fact mastery that will have your students jamming to the beat of success every day!

Session Standards
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.5
Relate counting to addition and subtraction.

CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6
Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
Use strategies such as:
Counting on
Making ten
Decomposing a number leading to a ten
Using the relationship between addition and subtraction
Creating equivalent but easier or known sums
Session Research
Karp, K. S., & Bass, H. L. (2010). "Research on Games and Mathematics." Research in Mathematics Education

Baroody, A. J. (2004). The Development of Arithmetic Concepts and Skills: Constructing Adaptive Expertise

Manizade, A., Buchholtz, N., Beswick, K. (2023). The Evolution of Research on Teaching Mathematics