Seeing Double

Before spring break, I talked with our scholars about memorizing their doubles addition facts up to 12+12.  As we begin our journey into multiplication, knowing their doubles will be key to understanding, and eventually memorizing,  multiplication facts, such as the x 2 and x 4 facts. 

Today we took a short quiz (12 problems) to see how many of them had reached the goal of memorizing those facts. Ben R holds the new record of completing these 12 problems in 20 seconds!  Way to go, Ben! Ask your child how they did on today's quiz. There is no secret to memorizing the facts -- just hard work and practice.  Students will be given another opportunity next Monday to show they have these facts memorized.