Fact Fluency Activities

As we begin our next math unit of double digit addition, it is important for your child to be comfortable and familiar with their basic math facts! Quick recall of basic facts is essential to future success in math. We practice these at school, but extra practice at home is always a wonderful reinforcement tool!  Below are a few ideas to practice addition fluency facts!

Quick Flip card game

Take turns drawing 2 cards at the same time, add them up, and the person with the bigger sum keeps all 4 cards. If they’re the same sum, all cards stay out and they each draw 2 more cards – whoever wins that gets all those cards.. basically like regular War but each person does 2 cards at a time. You can have them write their number sentences for extra practice (this is a great opportunity to work on correcting backwards numbers!!). Make sure you take out all the face cards!  If you don’t have a deck of cards, you can also do the same game but with dice!

ABCya

ABCya has many wonderful games for fact fluency!  Check out some of the following:

Flash cards

Your traditional set of addition flashcards are another simple way to build that fact fluency!  If you do not already have flashcards, buy a pack of index cards and let your child write the facts themselves!  The Dollar Tree is one of my favorite places to get flashcards.  They usually have some with familiar characters on them!

Linked HERE is an online flashcard game!

Memory card game

Before you start to play, sort through the deck to remove all cards that are higher than that featured number for the math game. For example, if the goal is to learn addition facts for the number six, the game will be played with ones (aces) through five.  Shuffle the deck and turn all the cards face down in a grid pattern.  Taking turns, have each player flip two cards to look for a matching pair. For example, if learning addition facts for the number six, appropriate pairs would be 5+1, 4+2 or 3+3.  Continue playing until all the cards in the deck have been matched into pairs. The player with the highest number of pairs at the end of the game is the winner.

I hope you find these ideas helpful!

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