Course curriculum
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Introducing this Preview of FactsWise Multiply/Divide Online Course for Educators
- Preview Introduction
- Quick Link to FactsWise Multiply/Divide E-Course for Educators - Buy Now
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Introduction to FactsWise Multiplication/Division: Five Key Principles
- 1) FactsWise is based on five key principles (video 5:50) FREE PREVIEW
- 2) We Need to Teach Basic Facts Fluency Before We Test It (Video 1:21, Myuriel, a 4th-grade Dual Immersion Teacher) FREE PREVIEW
- 3) Facts fluency results are remarkable when daily mini-lessons focus on concept building and part-whole thinking strategies (video 4:41) FREE PREVIEW
- 4) What Are Your Key Insights and Questions at this Point? FREE PREVIEW
- 5) Course Overview: FactsWise Multiplication and Division (video 4:20) FREE PREVIEW
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Getting Started with FactsWise: Goal 1 Multiplication - Concept building, then patterns and strategies, and lastly abstract
- First Step: Download the FactsWise Multiplication/Division Resource Book
- Recommended Materials
- Getting Started with Goal 1 Mini-Lesson 1: Exploring the x 10s with Manipulatives (videos 13:38 and 3:07)
- Four manipulatives that work easily with multiplication and division (video 2:11)
- Mini-Lesson 2: The 10's Game with Manipulatives
- Deciding when to move from Phase 1 to Phase 2 and then later to Phase 3
- Mini-Lesson 3: Sharing x 10 Strategies (highlighting place value and the distributive property; video 5:18)
- Communicating with Parents
- Mini-Lesson 4: Clap Facts with the x10's (video 0:50)
- Mini-Lesson 5: The x10 Game Revisited (video 1:58)
- Mini-Lesson 6: Self-Assessment Sort
- Assessing When Students Are Ready to Move on to Division: Observing and Recording While Students Play Games (video 3:49)
- Quick Survey: How are you and your students doing after the first few mini-lessons?
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Basic Facts Fluency: What is it and what does it look like?
- 1) Facts Fluency: What Is It? (videos 0:15 and 0:19) FREE PREVIEW
- 2) Facts Fluency - What Does It Look Like?
- 3) FactsWise Disrecommends Timed Tests FREE PREVIEW
- 4) Two Valid Assessment Techniques: Observation and One-on-One Interviews (videos 1:37, 3:58 and 4:49)
- 5) Keeping Track of Facts Fluency Progress
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Goal 1 Division
- Creating a Year-Long FactsWise Calendar
- Mini-Lesson 7: Investigating Goal 1 Division with Manipulatives
- Mini-Lesson 8: Connecting Division with Multiplication with Word Problems and Factor-Factor-Total Grids (videos 1:31 and 15:58)
- Mini-Lesson 9: Racing to 100 to build confidence with the concept of Goal 1 Division (video 1:00)
- Mini-Lesson 10: Strategies for solving Goal 1 Division problems
- Mini-Lesson 11: Number Talks where students share their Goal 1 Division strategies
- Mini-Lessons 12, 13, 14 and 16: Pairs Practice Tents and three activities you've done before (video 0:27 and 0:13)
- Supporting Struggling Students with Word Problems and Concrete Representations (video 20:56)
- Mini-Lesson 15: Three in a Row - a new game for your students (video 9:13)
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What comes next in the full FactsWise course?
- Upcoming Highlights
- Quick Link to FactsWise Multiply/Divide E-Course for Educators - Buy Now
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