Student automaticity and fluency in math is extremely important, especially in today's world of high stakes testing. Automaticity is the student's ability to recall math facts fast and accurately. Computational fluency- the ability to compute and accurately conduct math procedures, depends on the student's ability to recall basic math fact information (automaticity). Educators are putting more emphasis on achieving fluency and automaticity with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division because fluency with these operations help students achieve computational fluency in later grades and with harder math content.
A few applications to assist students who are having difficulty to achieve automaticity with math facts:
FASTT Math- A math intervention program that helps students gain math fact fluency by assessing their response time, and then generates customized activities based on the student's score. Teachers can monitor student's progress and creates reports based on progress.
Timez Attack- This application solely teaches multiplication facts from 2 to 12 times tables. This application is produced by the team that created Sony Playstation and is engaging to students as it feels like a video game.
Arcademic Skill Builder- These are math games designed to help students acquire automaticity with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts, integers, fractions and ratios. It allows for up to 4 players, is fully customizable allowing the user to work on area of need.
ArithmAttack- is an online or downloaded game that helps students build automaticity with basic subtraction, addition, multiplication and division fats.
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