I want you to take a look at this (right). Do you see what I see? I see an opportunity to brag about my class. At the same time, I also see room for improvement. We take 100-problem multiplication quizzes throughout the year, and I record the scores. A student must constantly improve. At the beginning of the year, after missing the last quarter of their third grade direct instruction, students came to me with some pretty detrimental scores. As a class, our average was 47.8 percent. With a little over a quarter of the 2020/1 school year behind us, the class average has steadily increased, standing now at 86.7 percent! Students, this year, seem very motivated to improve on their personal scores in multiplication fluency, as well as do their parts to improve the class average. Some claim to study at home. Most even beg to be quizzed again and again, and cheer when I announce that it's time to take a quiz. |
I encourage parents to set aside some time, every day, in the next two weeks to have your child work on those basic multiplication facts.