The Fact Tactics™ Fluency Program: Building Reasoning Skills for Multiplication in Grades 3–6 (Teach students more than fact recall. Help them learn to make sense of multiplication.)

My students love this. They were hesitant at first but now that we finished they are capable of amazing mathematical thinking!

Finally, a multiplication fact fluency program that is based on sense-making and mathematical reasoning rather than pure memorization. One of the most powerful contributions of this program comes from its unique ordering in which the basic facts are presented. You will not find this ordering in your standard textbook which makes THIS book a must-have. The book provides you with everything you need to implement the program: reproducible fact tactic cards, weekly assessments that provide an alternative to the age-old timed tests, a detailed description of what the program entails for each week, and an extension task for each week. There is even a video QR code to give you an example of how the program is implemented in an actual 3rd-grade class. I would recommend this book not only to 3-6 grade teachers but also to middle school mathematics teachers. The fact tactics can be applied to solution strategies for proportional reasoning problems. Also, middle school teachers who have students who are familiar with the program can use it to connect and explicate the commutative, associative, and distributive properties. This will help them in pre-algebra and beyond. I believe this program will be the future gold standard for multiplication education. Thank you Juli Dixon for your amazing contribution to the field of mathematics education.

This is a great fluency program. However, our district is interrupted consistently with assessments and other things and we could not implement the full scope of the program.

I have been recommending this book to everyone who is looking for strategies for teaching students or their children multiplication fact strategies. It's a 20 week program that takes one basic fact each week and has ways of making sure that the students actually remember the strategies and the concepts behind them. Superb writing and highly insightful about the mathematics.

Every summer I buy a few “school” books to read, to expand my knowledge, and I quickly ordered this so it would arrive in time for me to take to Greece. Everything about this book is fabulous! From the gentle reminders (such as the one about how rows and columns in an array do matter, shown in my pic), to the awesome Fact Tactics webs—my fav, this program would be so easily introduced in any classroom! This book is coming home to the US with me to implement in my classroom for the new school year to help students really reason with the facts. Thank you Juli K. Dixon!

My students love this.

Dr. Dixon grounds the strategies in this book in best practices for helping students achieve automaticity in multiplication through connections and understanding. The way she leads the reader through making these connections is innovative and research-based, but also usable in classroom practice. She provides a week-by-week guide to help students build towards fluency, complete with reproducibles, formative assessments, and pointers for the teacher. Basic facts are vital for future mathematics that builds on these concepts, and Dr. Dixon helps us to lay that foundation in a meaningful way.

As an instructional leader one of the most frequent questions I receive is around multiplication facts. This book provides an answer for teachers in an easy-to-follow format! The way the author simplifies the "fact" progression provides clarity on the teaching-reviewing-assessment cycle. Even better - all needed materials are supplied and ready to use in the classroom! I cannot wait to spread the word of the Fact Tactics Fluency Program to all who are looking for a solution for their students in learning their multiplication facts!