The activities given above are illustrations of games and tasks in which students learn math facts at the
same time as working on something they enjoy, rather than something they fear. The different activities
also focus on the understanding of addition and multiplication, rather than blind memorization and this is
critically important. Appendix A presents other suggested activities and references.
As educators we all share the goal of encouraging powerful mathematics learners who think carefully about
mathematics as well as use numbers with fluency. But teachers and curriculum writers are often unable
to access important research and this has meant that unproductive and counter-productive classroom
practices continue. This short paper illustrates both the damage that is caused by the practices that often
accompany the teaching of math facts – speed pressure, timed testing and blind memorization – as well as
summarizes the research evidence of something very different – number sense. High achieving students
use number sense and it is critical that lower achieving students, instead of working on drill and memorization,
also learn to use numbers flexibly and conceptually. Memorization and timed testing stand in the
way of number sense, giving students the impression that sense making is not important. We need to urgently
reorient our teaching of early number and number sense in our mathematics teaching in the UK and
the US. If we do not, then failure and drop out rates - already at record highs in both countries (National
Numeracy, 2014; Silva & White, 2013) - will escalate. When we emphasize memorization and testing in the
name of fluency we are harming children, we are risking the future of our ever-quantitative society and we
are threatening the discipline of mathematics. We have the research knowledge we need to change this and
to enable all children to be powerful mathematics learners. Now is the time to use it.
The activities given above are illustrations of games and tasks in which students learn math facts at thesame time as working on something they enjoy, rather than something they fear. The different activitiesalso focus on the understanding of addition and multiplication, rather than blind memorization and this iscritically important. Appendix A presents other suggested activities and references.As educators we all share the goal of encouraging powerful mathematics learners who think carefully aboutmathematics as well as use numbers with fluency. But teachers and curriculum writers are often unableto access important research and this has meant that unproductive and counter-productive classroompractices continue. This short paper illustrates both the damage that is caused by the practices that oftenaccompany the teaching of math facts – speed pressure, timed testing and blind memorization – as well assummarizes the research evidence of something very different – number sense. High achieving studentsuse number sense and it is critical that lower achieving students, instead of working on drill and memorization,also learn to use numbers flexibly and conceptually. Memorization and timed testing stand in theway of number sense, giving students the impression that sense making is not important. We need to urgentlyreorient our teaching of early number and number sense in our mathematics teaching in the UK andสหรัฐอเมริกา ถ้าเราไม่ทำ แล้วความล้มเหลวและปล่อย ออกราคาพิเศษ - แล้วที่บันทึกหน้าทั้งสองประเทศ (ชาติการคำนวณ 2014 Silva และขาว 2013) - จะเลื่อนระดับ เมื่อเราเน้นการท่องจำและการทดสอบในการชื่อของแคล่วเราจะเป็นอันตรายต่อเด็ก อนาคตของสังคมเราเคยปริมาณและเราประณีตซับซ้อนกำลังคุกคามวินัยของคณิตศาสตร์ เรามีความรู้งานวิจัยที่เราจำเป็นต้องเปลี่ยนแปลง และเพื่อให้เด็กทุกคนต้อง เรียนวิชาคณิตศาสตร์ที่มีประสิทธิภาพ ขณะนี้ เป็นเวลาที่จะใช้
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