Strategic Math: Multiplication Facts 0 to 81

The Strategic Math Series focuses on how to teach basic math facts and operations to students of any age. Content is built upon the concrete-representational-abstract method of instruction. In this approach, understanding of mathematics is developed through the use of concrete objects, representational drawings, and an easy-to-learn strategy that turns all students into active problem solvers.

Multiplication Facts 0 to 81 provides all of the materials you need to teach multiplication facts using the concrete-representational-abstract method of instruction. The manual outlines specific teaching procedures for each lesson and includes student tests, progress charts, practice sheets, and more.

In studies, computation scores of students with learning disabilities rose from a pretest mean of 45 percent to a posttest mean of 92 percent. In addition, their speed in making these calculations increased 400 percent. Their mean posttest scores were computer problems--92 percent; word problems without extraneous information--100 percent; word problems with extraneous information--92 percent; and creation of word problems--71 percent.

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Author(s): Cecil D. Mercer, Susan Peterson Miller

Publication Info: Edge Enterprises, Inc.

Resources:

• Research: Multiplication Facts 0 to 81 (.pdf)
• Research Articles:
  • Miller, S., & Strawser, S. (1996). Promoting strategic math performance among students with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Forum, 21(2), 34-40. Summary: This article provides suggestions for classroom teachers who want to integrate strategy instruction into their math curriculum by discussing a strategic classroom environment and strategic learners.
• Related Article:
  • Bouck, E. C., Satsangi, R. & Park, J. (2017). The Concrete-Representational-Abstract Approach for students With learning disabilities: An evidence-based practice synthesis.  Remedial and Special Education, 39(4)  Summary: As researchers and practitioners have increasingly become interested in what practices are evidence based and for whom in education, different sets of quality indicators and evidence-based practice standards have emerged in the field of special education. Practices are commonly suggested as evidence based, even without a best evidence synthesis on the existing research, such as the case with the concrete–representational–abstract (CRA) instructional framework to support students with disabilities in mathematics. This study sought to support the classification of the CRA instructional framework as an evidence-based approach for students with learning disabilities by applying quality indicators and standards of evidence-based practice by Cook et al. (2014). Based on the application of the indicators and standards, the CRA instructional framework was determined to be an evidence-based practice for students with learning disabilities who struggle in mathematics relative to computational problems, such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication, largely with regrouping.

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