Why do we give the daily tests in Rocket Math?\u00a0 Not to teach, but only to assess whether the facts introduced thus far have been learned well enough for the student to have new facts added to what they are learning.\u00a0 Individual students learn at different rates.\u00a0 Some students need only a couple of days of practice to memorize two new facts while others may need several days.\u00a0 The purpose of the daily tests is just to see if the student needs more practice time, or is ready to “swallow” some more facts.<\/p>\n
Timed tests are not the important part of Rocket Math. The “active ingredient” in the Rocket Math prescription, the thing that makes it work, is not timed tests.\u00a0 Timed tests don’t actually teach and often don’t really help students develop fluency.\u00a0 The usual timed tests of a random selection of all the facts can assess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":34234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[35,43,36,47,61,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233"}],"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=34233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39168,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions\/39168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/feeding-mush-to-baby.jpg\")
<\/a>As I note in my basic training presentation, “It’s like feeding mush to a baby.\u00a0 You have to make sure they have swallowed the last mouthful before you give them more.”\u00a0 \u00a0See an explanation in this You Tube video in our Rocket Math channel:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/J8cWSDG0Di8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"