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Your students either need a conceptual understanding of the operations or they need strategies (or both!)

If your students haven’t mastered their multiplication and division math facts by 5th grade, chances are that flashcards and even daily practice isn’t going to make that much of dent. I have found that this item is what is typically lacking in math facts take home kits, but it is so important. Multiplication and Division Strategies Posters The students use these to practice solving their math facts using one of the strategies they have learned. Again, I picked these up from the Dollar Tree, so obviously they are not the best and have to be replaced each year (you get what you pay for 😉 ). Another option is to have the students make their own (I recommend they make flashcards for only the facts they struggle with).Īnother staple in our math facts take home kits are markerboards and dry erase markers. I picked up these simple (and cheap) flashcards at the Dollar Tree. Pick and choose what you want, or use them all! On this post, I want to share with you (yes, for free!) all the goodies I send home with my students to practice their multiplication and division math facts at home. (and we all know with that 9s hand trick, they are usually set if we can get them to 8). Through a combination of fact drills, games, and teaching actual strategies versus just memorization, I am usually able to get even my most struggling students to at least master through their 8s. This makes everything even more of a struggle for those students, especially when they get to 5th grade. One of the struggles with teaching upper elementary math is that many of our students have not mastered their multiplication and division facts.