The Fact Tactics Fluency Program

"How can students achieve a deep understanding of mathematics, one which allows them to go beyond recall to explain and justify their thinking? Teachers must help students transcend rote memorization and develop reasoning skills related to multiplication. In The Fact Tactics Fluency Program, professor of mathematics education Juli K. Dixon introduces a program that teachers may seamlessly integrate into existing mathematics instruction. The program is built on six tactics: (1) the grounding tactic, (2) the linking tactic, (3) the strategic repetition tactic, (4) the review tactic, (5) the assessment tactic, and (6) the extension tactic. Using these tactics, teachers gain an alternative to drill and kill instruction, connecting what students learn as they make sense of multiplication by emphasizing and supporting procedural fluency to develop automaticity"--