Supporting Students Who “Don’t know their Facts” – Jennifer Bay-Williams
Regardless of grade, students need automaticity with basic facts in order to learn grade-level content. In this session we will explore effective intervention strategies to ensure that every student has automaticity with all their facts. Spoiler alert: memorizing and skip counting songs are not on the list.
Jennifer Bay-Williams
Professor and Author, University of Louisville
Dr. Jennifer Bay-Williams is the author of Math Fact Fluency: Math Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention, and more than 30 other books on math fluency, financial literacy, using children’s literature in math lessons, and teaching mathematics developmentally. She is an international leader in mathematics education and a professor and associate dean at the University of Louisville in Kentucky (USA).
1) https://deck.of.cards/
A browser-based virtual deck of playing cards you can use to run card-based classroom games/activities online (i.e., a shared deck experience without needing physical cards). Deck of Cards
2) https://kcm.nku.edu/mathfactfluency/
(Also shared as https://kcm.nku.edu/mathfactfluency/index.php)
The Math Fact Fluency Companion Website is hosted by Northern Kentucky University’s Kentucky Center for Mathematics. It provides printable games and assessment tools aligned with the book Math Fact Fluency (Bay-Williams & Kling), noting that the site includes a portion of the book’s resources in easy-to-use printable formats. Kentucky Center for Mathematics+2Kentucky Center for Mathematics+2
3) https://makemathmoments.com/youtube
A link from the Make Math Moments team pointing people to their YouTube presence/livestream option when Zoom access is difficult (i.e., “watch on YouTube instead”).
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Supporting Students Who “Don’t know their Facts” – Discussion
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1) https://deck.of.cards/
A browser-based virtual deck of playing cards you can use to run card-based classroom games/activities online (i.e., a shared deck experience without needing physical cards). Deck of Cards
2) https://kcm.nku.edu/mathfactfluency/
(Also shared as https://kcm.nku.edu/mathfactfluency/index.php)
The Math Fact Fluency Companion Website hosted by Northern Kentucky University’s Kentucky Center for Mathematics. It provides printable games and assessment tools aligned to the book Math Fact Fluency (Bay-Williams & Kling), with a note that the site includes a portion of the book’s resources in easy-to-use printable formats. Kentucky Center for Mathematics+2Kentucky Center for Mathematics+2
3) https://makemathmoments.com/youtube
A link from the Make Math Moments team pointing people to their YouTube presence/livestream option when Zoom access is difficult (i.e., “watch on YouTube instead”).
