Some “experts” in education think that teaching and practicing rote information, like math facts, is unnecessary. \u00a0Just let students do math or do games and they will learn facts well enough to get by. \u00a0That is true for a few students, but many students continue to count on their fingers up into junior high and high school if we don’t help them commit these facts to memory! \u00a0So the short answer to the question of whether finger counting will ever go away, is “No!” unless we do something.<\/p>\n
One of the things that is unique about Rocket Math is that students begin to learn facts well enough so they have instant recall. \u00a0By practicing orally with a peer, they are saying the facts and the answers aloud, and from memory, over and over again. \u00a0By doing that, students\u00a0come to the point\u00a0that, when they say that problem to themselves,\u00a0the answer pops into their heads without effort, like the words to an advertising jingle. \u00a0When the answer occurs to them instantly, they realize they know the answer before they can count on their fingers, and they stop. \u00a0This is how finger counting goes away. \u00a0Students recall the answer before they have to start counting fingers. \u00a0The end of finger counting\u00a0comes with the kind of daily oral practice that the procedures of Rocket Math provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some “experts” in education think that teaching and practicing rote information, like math facts, is unnecessary. \u00a0Just let students do math or do games and they will learn facts well enough to get by. \u00a0That is true for a few students, but many students continue to count on their fingers up into junior high and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":15978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[35,43,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15989,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions\/15989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}