Let’s talk about how easy it is to incorporate Boom cards for fact fluency into your daily schedule. It truly only takes about 5-10 minutes of practice each day for you to see an increase in fluency. The first step is determining when you would like to incorporate fact fluency in your math block. Will it work best in your schedule as a bell ringer activity, after your daily lesson, as an exit ticket, or even as part of your math center time?
Once you have established when you want to incorporate fluency, you will want to make sure you have assigned each student a fact fluency deck to practice. I always start by assigning the deck that includes the factor of 0. Students are instantly “hooked” because they are successful with this deck.
In my class, I challenge my students to finish each deck of 20 math equations in under 2 minutes. If students need accommodations/modifications, this time limit is flexible. Once a student has passed a deck with at least 18/20 correct responses (90% accuracy), they move on to the next fact. If you do not like the idea of timing your students' fluency, no problem! Boom decks are not timed, and students can complete a deck an infinite number of times, at a pace that feels comfortable to them.
I like to complete two to three rounds of fluency each day. The first round of fluency is like a warm-up for my students. By the second round, students often complete more facts within the 2-minute time range. Believe it or not, they BEG for a third round. Crazy right?
Once students are logged into their accounts, they find the fact they are working on. I only assign the next fact fluency deck AFTER the student has mastered the deck that comes before. For example, once a student shows mastery of the factors of 3, they are assigned the factors of 4. I like to use an old fashioned sticker chart to help keep track of what fact each student is on. Once students master a deck, they show me their score, and then go put a sticker on the sticker chart. This is an additional motivator, students love to add a sticker to the chart.
That is all there is to it my friends- pretty simple right? Are you ready to get started?
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You can find the whole set of fact fluency boom cards here. This set contains 17 decks full of multiplication fact fluency practice. It includes a deck for each multiplication factor 0-12 AND several review decks- which is over 400 boom cards for your students to use as review or practice.
I hope you get the chance to try Boom Cards and help your students build their fact fluency!! I'd love to hear how YOU practice fact fluency in your classroom- tell me about it in the comments! :)
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