{"id":31146,"date":"2017-05-01T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/?p=31146"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T23:04:56","slug":"learn-to-add-and-subtract-in-first-grade-with-fact-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/learn-to-add-and-subtract-in-first-grade-with-fact-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to add and subtract in first grade with fact families"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of math programs around the country introduce math facts in families. \u00a0Now Rocket Math does too!<\/h3>\n

A fact family includes both addition and subtraction facts.\"\"<\/a> You can see to the right 25 examples of fact families such as Set A; 3+1, 1+3, 4-1 & 4-3. \u00a0The sheet shows the sequence of learning facts in the new Rocket Math \u00a0program Fact Families 1s-10s (+, -). \u00a0Each set that students learn from A to Y adds just one fact family to be learned, so it isn’t too hard to remember. \u00a0(That’s the Rocket Math secret ingredient!)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Learning math facts in\u00a0families, is gaining in popularity\u00a0these days. \u00a0Logic suggests\u00a0that this would be an easier way to learn. \u00a0However, the research is not definitive that this is easier or a faster way to learn facts than separating the operations and learning all addition facts first and then learning all subtraction facts. \u00a0But learning in fact families\u00a0is a viable option, and I wanted to have it available for Rocket Math customers.<\/p>\n

Flash news!!<\/strong><\/span> Someone looking for a master’s or doctoral thesis could do a comparative study of students using the fact families vs. the separated facts in Rocket Math. This could easily be a gold standard research study<\/strong><\/span> because you could randomly assign students to conditions within classrooms–the routine is the same for both–just the materials in their hands is different! \u00a0Just sayin’…<\/p>\n

I\u00a0separated out the 1s through 10s facts from the 11s-18s, because this seemed enough for one program. \u00a0It would be a good and sufficient accomplishment for first grade. \u00a0I have heard that some first grades prefer to keep the numbers small but to learn\u00a0both addition and subtraction–so this program accomplishes that.<\/p>\n

I added Fact Families 1s-10s (+, -) to the Universal subscription in April of 2017 bringing the total number of programs in the Universal subscription to 14 (the basic four operations and ten more!). \u00a0By the fall of the 2017 school year I should have the rest of the Fact Familes in addition and subtraction available. \u00a0[In time for you to do that gold standard research study!] \u00a0The rest of the addition and subtraction fact families, which students could learn in 2nd grade, would be the Fact Families 11s-18s (+, -). \u00a0As always, new programs are added to the Universal subscription without additional cost<\/strong> as soon as they are available.<\/p>\n

I most sincerely want students to be successful and to enjoy (as much as possible) the necessary chore of learning math facts to automaticity. Please give me feedback when you use this new program, Fact Families 1s-10s (+, -), \u00a0as to how it goes for the students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of math programs around the country introduce math facts in families. \u00a0Now Rocket Math does too! A fact family includes both addition and subtraction facts. You can see to the right 25 examples of fact families such as Set A; 3+1, 1+3, 4-1 & 4-3. \u00a0The sheet shows the sequence of learning facts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[35,69,43,47,61,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146"}],"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=31146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31148,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions\/31148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}