Just the Difficult Ones

Ask any teacher above the 4th grade what the one thing is students must know to be successful in math and the answer will be most likely be the same: math fact fluency. By the fourth and fifth grades students are generally proficient in addition and subtraction. If there is a hang-up, it is with multiplication facts, and with some students, it stops there. If a student shuts down because he or she is not given the right skills to become fluent with multiplication, the entire math engine can shut down and math can forever be a chore and a struggle for that student. This does not have to happen. Just the Difficult Ones: Multiplication Made Easy helps parents and teachers alike move students towards multiplication fact fluency by grouping just the most difficult facts to learn and chunking them. The purpose of the lessons in Just the Difficult Ones: Multiplication Made Easy is twofold: to help students learn multiplication facts accurately and to help students learn them with automaticity. This is achieved with fluency practice. Fluency practice helps with fact development and having the ability to automatically regurgitate math facts paves the way for future math success. This can be achieved by using the lessons within this book to chunk away at math fact mastery. Once students are proficient with the chunking pages, move to on to the Multiplication in a Minute lessons. Math fact fluency is closer than you think. All it takes is a little practice.