Reply To: Lesson 4-2: Automaticity vs. Memorization

[Ericka Legnard]

I’m a middle school teacher, so I love hearing about what is so essential in the early grades. I do often see kids who just can’t seem to latch on to the ideas and concepts we study in middle school, and I do think that lack of understanding about things like counting, making groups, multiplication are likely the root of these difficulties. I do try to include some of this as it comes up naturally in class, but wondered if there are any resources out there that might fit with a middle school classroom to reinforce these ideas?