Students in Room 204 have been working VERY hard to memorize their multiplication facts from 0-10. We are working together to track our progress along the way. When EVERY student passes a particular Times Table, we add to our all-class ice cream cone on the wall:
As you can see, all 23 students have passed tests on 0, 1 and 2. When we have all reached the 10’s, we will celebrate with a day of Camp Count-A-Lot!
Our cool graphics, fun games, and creative methods for testing come from Laura Candler’s Mastering Math Facts book. I’ve found that our progress this year has been swift and steady – your children have been practicing, haven’t they????
I’ll keep you posted on our progress!
ps: As a math center, we’ve been completing an all-class Multiplication Table. I love how students are choosing the tricky ones, before they head to the simple ones 🙂
How are you modifying for students who have rapid naming issues, processing speed issues or math disabilities?
Hi Jenn,
Great question! This is our first year using this particular math fact program. In past years, I’ve used quizzes where students are expected to answer 20 questions within a 1-minute timed test on their tables through 12. While some students found success with that, not all did. For those students needing adaptations, I have always been able to do so by giving them extra time, or fewer problems, depending on what works better for them. I also have the option of quizzing them orally. This year, I am hoping that by giving only 11 problems to be completed in 1 minute (on tables to 10), we will find students better able to make their way through the timed tests.
The games, activities and practice we do inside of school (and out!) makes a huge difference in their fact fluency. I’m looking forward to seeing the results this year!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Take care,
Suzy
Hi mrs.brooks we found a bug crawling on our classroom floor:)
Brianna – I heard about it! It sounds like it might be like our own Mystery Visitor we had a few months back – check out this link and let me know if it looked the same. Did the jar and net I sent up work well to hold him/her?
Here’s the link: http://blogs.falmouth.k12.ma.us/simplysuzy/2011/09/26/mystery-visitor/
Have a super weekend!
Love,
Mrs. Brooks
mrs.brooks did you change the time on the blog for daylight savings?
brianna
You’re right, Brianna – the time is off by an hour. Let me see if I can figure that out – I was guessing it would change all by itself?
hmmmmmmmmmm
aloha Mrs. Brooks!
guess what! on thursday I had to recite 6 paragraphs of MLK “I have a dream”!!! and by memory!!
luckily i memorized it ok 🙂
Love from,Ruby
Aloha, Ruby! Nice job! Memorizing speeches can be tricky! I had to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution and part of the Declaration of Independence. I’m really, really old and can still remember both of them!
Bravo!
Love,
Mrs. Brooks
I say to you today even tho we face the difficultys of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream that I’d deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live our the tru meaning of it’s creed; We hold these truths to be self-evadint, that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit doun together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even in the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppretion, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day be in a nation were they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have a dream that all valleys shall be exalted, all hills and mountains shall be made low. The rough P
places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight. This is the faith that I go back to the south with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair the stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of god’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, “let freedom ring”. so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. But not only that. Let freedom ring from shone mountain of Georga. Let freedom ring from evry hill and molehill of mississippi, from evry mountainside.
When we allow freedom to ring from every toun and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we are speeding up the day when all Of god’s children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, protestants and catholics, will be able to join hands and sing the words of an old nigro spirtual, ” free at last! Free at last! Thank god almighty, we are free at last!!”
(did this from memory- please show your class on tuesday! Thanks a bunch)
-Peter
Peter – awesome!! Memorizing takes lots of practice and you certainly must have practiced! Thanks for sharing – and I’m so very impressed by my former students!
Love,
Mrs. Brooks
Hi Mrs. Brooks,
I can’t wait until everyone learns all the multiplication tables so we can have Camp Count A Lot. How long do you think it will take? Can mothers be volunteers at Camp Count A Lot?
Trevor
Hi Trevor – I am guessing it’ll be in May (just an estimate – I really have no clue!!) Mothers can be volunteers for ANYTHING, ANYTIME!! :). I am excited to see everyone’s progress on our quickie quizzes – we’ll be at our goal before we know it!
Love,
Mrs. Brooks