ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what it means to develop fluency and automaticity, strategies that build fluency of the facts through understanding, as well as a discussion on targeted and general practice to support the development of fluency. Targeted practice is an opportunity to practice those facts identified as not automatic or fluent for a specific student. General practice is for on-going exposure and practice with all multiplication facts. It is important to understand that automaticity is not the same as simply memorizing. Automaticity is reliant on instruction that is initially focused on fluency. The CCSSM expectation states that by the end of grade 3 students will know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers. That is, the CCSSM expects students to focus on understanding the meaning for, and finding products of, single-digit multiplication and related quotients. The chapter also reviews on describing and illustrating strategies for deriving math facts that are focused on developing fluency.
