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Automaticity in language, math

03-Aug-202517-Sep-2023 by

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Fluency and automaticity Building fluency in math and language is significantly (though not exclusively) building automaticity in recognizing and recalling math facts, and the sounds, spelling, and meaning of words, respectively. Foundationally, building automaticity must in fact be based on tasks which do so. This seems obvious but isn't so, as an incisive ... Read more

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Science of Math

03-Aug-202528-Mar-2023 by

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Science of Math has taken cues from the Science of Reading. Though it is seen as lagging by a few years, there is already a solid body of research regarding how children learn math and how to best teach it. As with the Science of Reading, the focus is on proven explicit, direct, ... Read more