Building Fact Fluency is essential to early mathematics understanding. It allows students to see patterns and relationships between numbers. AND it is not about memorizing but rather understanding.

Building Fact Fluency Cards at BFFCards.com are a great way to build fact fluency. You can many options. You can choose Five Frames, Ten Frames, or Double Ten Frames as well as the number of cards you wish to display. Once the choices are made you click to deal a new card.

There are a lot of options for use. It can begin as a subitizing exercise where students identify the number being displayed without counting. Then, it can be an missing addend problem by asking “How many more?” to make a 5, 10, or 20 depending on which frame you are using. Or, you can ask students to generate the equation to make a ten. If you are using more than one card, then it is easy to call out and isolate strategies such as 1 more or 10 + another addend, or 9 + another addend. Students begin to see patterns and develop strategies to build their fact fluency.

Students in Kindergarten work on their fact fluency for numbers 1-5. First graders work on fact fluency through 10. And finally, 2nd graders are expected to be fluent with sums and differences to 20 by the end of the year.

Try out BFFCards to support this work. It complements any existing curriculum, is great for intervention, and makes for a wonderful warm-up in primary math classrooms.