Ep 272: What is Fluency Anyway?

How does the definition of fluency change when your goal for math class changes? In this episode Pam and Kim discuss in some areas of mathematics they aim for fluency and how students use those relationships to build from.

Talking Points:

• Buzzwords
• What are our goals?
• Does automaticity need to be drilled or can it develop naturally?
• Strategies are synergistic 
• Fluency with decomposing numbers
• Functional fluency
• Fluency with prime and square numbers
• Fluency in mathematical behaviors

Check out these episodes to learn more about "working with multiplication facts".

• Ep 97: If Not the Multiplication Algorithm, Then What?
• Ep 34 - 38: Multiplication: The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly

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