Teaching Number Facts
Honestly, is there anything more central to math success than knowing number facts?
If you are old like me, you will know full well the time and effort that went into ensuring all students know their numbers facts (or tables).
I believe it is as critical to math success today as it was years and years ago.
This is one of those teaching strategies that support active learning because the students are heavily involved in the learning process. It is a cracker of a lesson for regular teaching and relief teaching.
This lesson is great because
This is always the first lesson on my teaching day and the kids with whom I have regular contact now know what to expect.
I have modified the teaching strategies to include peer tutoring in the learning process.
I wanted to increase active engagement of students.
I tried it out when I was relief teaching with a group of year 6 students and it worked a treat.
It's not rocket science just old-fashioned number facts and old-fashioned teaching - well maybe not so old-fashioned teaching.
The lesson is prepared on PowerPoint.
Firstly the kids had to write up a table.
They were then presented with SET 1 which is a set of 10 number facts with an interval of 5 seconds between each fact. ie. 50 seconds for 10 facts.
After writing down their answers, the PowerPoint moved on to the answer screen. (I love it when pushing a button is one of the teaching strategies.)
The kids marked their own work and recorded both the sum and the answer all their incorrect answers.
Here is where I moved the learning process to include peer tutoring as one of the teaching strategies.
I paired a student who scored highly with a student who didn't. This small group worked within the classroom to learn the number facts.
The "peer" used any method they wanted to improve the performance of their "mentor".
The peer tutoring only went on for 3 minutes of so.
(Honestly, peer tutoring is one of my significant teaching strategies in the learning process.)
After the peer tutoring, we proceeded to the SET 2 - another 10 number facts with a space of 4 seconds.
And the cycle progressed. After each SET the kids moved into peer tutoring groups where the teaching of the number facts was strengthened.
It is actually amazing how much peer tutoring adds to the learning process. It is active learning at its best.
It really adds to the effectiveness of teaching.
Honestly, is there anything more central to math success than knowing number facts?
If you are old like me, you will know full well the time and effort that went into ensuring all students know their numbers facts (or tables).
I believe it is as critical to math success today as it was years and years ago.
This is one of those teaching strategies that support active learning because the students are heavily involved in the learning process. It is a cracker of a lesson for regular teaching and relief teaching.
This lesson is great because
- it takes almost no preparation;
- it does not require any resources;
- it suits all grades and all student abilities.
This is always the first lesson on my teaching day and the kids with whom I have regular contact now know what to expect.
I have modified the teaching strategies to include peer tutoring in the learning process.
I wanted to increase active engagement of students.
I tried it out when I was relief teaching with a group of year 6 students and it worked a treat.
It's not rocket science just old-fashioned number facts and old-fashioned teaching - well maybe not so old-fashioned teaching.
The lesson is prepared on PowerPoint.
Firstly the kids had to write up a table.
They were then presented with SET 1 which is a set of 10 number facts with an interval of 5 seconds between each fact. ie. 50 seconds for 10 facts.
After writing down their answers, the PowerPoint moved on to the answer screen. (I love it when pushing a button is one of the teaching strategies.)
The kids marked their own work and recorded both the sum and the answer all their incorrect answers.
Here is where I moved the learning process to include peer tutoring as one of the teaching strategies.
I paired a student who scored highly with a student who didn't. This small group worked within the classroom to learn the number facts.
The "peer" used any method they wanted to improve the performance of their "mentor".
The peer tutoring only went on for 3 minutes of so.
(Honestly, peer tutoring is one of my significant teaching strategies in the learning process.)
After the peer tutoring, we proceeded to the SET 2 - another 10 number facts with a space of 4 seconds.
And the cycle progressed. After each SET the kids moved into peer tutoring groups where the teaching of the number facts was strengthened.
It is actually amazing how much peer tutoring adds to the learning process. It is active learning at its best.
It really adds to the effectiveness of teaching.
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