Math Facts Journal
The blog of MathFactLab
Math Facts Websites: What makes MathFactLab different ?
If you Google 'math facts websites', you'll be quickly overwhelmed with choices. If your students or your child need help with their math facts,...more »
What is a Fact Family in Math and Why Is It Important?
When it comes to teaching math, there are a lot of different methods and strategies that teachers can use to help their students understand concepts and...more »
The 2 Times Table: How to Teach x2 Multiplication Facts
The good news about the 2 times table (or x2 multiplication facts) is that your students most likely already know them. Probably they know them in...more »
The 10 Times Table: How to Teach x10 Multiplication Facts
The 10 times table is the next set of facts for students to learn after getting the x2 facts under their belt. Students learn the x10...more »
The 5 Times Table: How to Teach x5 Multiplication Facts
After learning x2 and x10 multiplication facts, the next step for students is developing mastery of the 5 times table, or x5 facts. These are another...more »
The 4 Times Table: How to Teach x4 Multiplication Facts
Multiplication facts can be mastered without too much difficulty when they are taught using strategies, especially when those strategies build on previously...more »
The 6 Times Table: How to Teach x6 Multiplication Facts
Do you need ideas or strategies for helping your students develop multiplication fact fluency? This is the sixth blog in this series on teaching the...more »
The 3 Times Table: How to Teach x3 Multiplication Facts
Looking for best practices in teaching the 3 times table? You've come to the right place. In this blog series, I am working through a recommended...more »
9 Times Table: How to Teach x9 Multiplication Facts
The great news about the 9 times table is that by pointing out a few patterns within it, you can help your students learn them in short time. What...more »
Differentiated 5th Grade Math Spiral Review - PDF Worksheet #2 free
This is my second fifth grade math review worksheet of the year. It is provided for free, and is in PDF format. Click here if you would like...more »
Double-Digit Multiplication Word Problems Worksheet Free pdf
This is one of my favorite resources for helping my student to develop proficiency with 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication, also known as double digit...more »
2 digit by 2 digit multiplication worksheet with area models free pdf
I typically begin my fifth grade multiplication unit with this 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication strategies worksheet. I find it's a good...more »
Differentiated 5th Grade Math Spiral Review - PDF Worksheet #1: A free resource from MathFactLab
Wednesdays, in my fifth-grade math classes, are review days - a time when my students work on a math spiral review paper. Also known as 'window panes',...more »
Strategy-Based Multiplication Flashcards - A free resource from MathFactLab
I created these multiplication flashcards as part of my master's project when I was a grad student at the Vermont Mathematics Initiative. I...more »
Decimal Place-Value Game for Grade 5 Math: A free resource from MathFactLab
While typically the pages of MathFactLab's blog will be dedicated to helping students develop math fact fluency, because I am a fifth grade teacher and...more »
Decimal Addition and Subtraction Game: Let It Grow
Let It Grow is a game I like to play with my students as they are working toward refining their skills with addition and subtraction of decimal numbers...more »
5th Grade Decimal Place Value Yahtzee - A Free Resource from MathFactLab
Because MathFactLab is dedicated to helping students develop math fact fluency, this blog will mostly be dedicated to the the teaching of math facts. ...more »
MathFactLab's Addition & Subtraction Fact Program
In our Addition/Subtraction learning mode, MathFactLab students study the addition facts and subtraction facts simultaneously. We take a...more »
Multiplication Facts & Division Facts: MathFactLab's approach
At MathFactLab, our students study multiplication facts and division facts simultaneously. This approach harnesses the power of...more »
Online Math Fact Practice That's Not Drill? MathFactLab
Practice should focus on making reasoning strategies more automatic, not on drilling isolated facts. - Arthur J. Baroody Most online math fact practice is...more »
Math Fact Automaticity vs. Math Fact Fluency
Math fact fluency and math fact automaticity are often used interchangeably by educators, but it's worth understanding the difference between the two....more »