{"id":38010,"date":"2018-10-20T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/?p=38010"},"modified":"2018-10-20T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:23:01","slug":"rocket-math-can-students-really-learn-this-way-it-seems-too-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/rocket-math-can-students-really-learn-this-way-it-seems-too-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Math: Can students really learn this way? (It seems too easy.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At first, it may seem like the way Rocket Math presents the same simple facts over and over, is so easy it must be a waste of time.<\/h3>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But like anything you learn, you have to start where it seems easy and then build up to where it is hard.\u00a0 Rocket Math has been effective helping students learn their math facts for over 20 years.\u00a0 It is designed according to scientifically designed learning principles, which is why it works, if students will work it.\u00a0 Rocket Math carefully and slowly introduces facts to learn in such a way that students can achieve fluency with each set of facts as they progress through the alphabet A through Z.\u00a0 Let me explain.<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Set A begins with two facts and their reverses, e.g., 2+1, 1+2, 3+1 and 1+3.\u00a0 Dead simple, huh?\u00a0 But in answering those the student learns what it is like to instantly \u201cknow\u201d an answer rather than having to figure it out.\u00a0 The student says to himself or herself, \u201cWell, I know that one.\u201d\u00a0 The student learns he or she can answer a fact instantly with no hesitation every time based on recall and not figuring it out.\u00a0 The game requires the student to answer the problems at a fast rate, proving that he or she knows those facts.\u00a0 Once that level is passed the game adds two more facts and their reverses,.\u00a0 The same process of answering them (and still remembering Set A) instantly with no hesitation every time.\u00a0 When that is achieved, the game moves the student on to Set C, two more facts and their reverses.\u00a0 Eventually, every student gets to a fact on which they hesitate (maybe one they have to count on their fingers), meaning they can\u2019t answer within the 3 seconds allowed.\u00a0 Mission Control then says the problem and the correct answer, has the student answer that problem, then gives two different facts to answer and goes back to check on the fact the student hesitated on again.\u00a0 If the student answers within 3 seconds then the game moves on.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the Take-Off phase the student is introduced to the two new facts and their reverses.\u00a0 That\u2019s all the student has to answer.\u00a0 But the student has to answer each one instantly.\u00a0 If the student is hesitant on any of those facts (or makes an error) then they have to\u00a0Start Over<\/strong>\u00a0and do the Take-Off phase over again.\u00a0 They have to do 12 in a row without an error or a hesitation.\u00a0 Once the Take-Off phase is passed the student goes into the Orbit phase, where there is a mix of recently introduced facts along with the new facts.\u00a0 The student has to answer up to 30 facts, and is allowed only two errors or hesitations. After the third error or hesitation the student has to\u00a0Start Over<\/strong>\u00a0on the Orbit Phase.\u00a0 Once the Orbit phase is passed, the student goes on to the Universe phase, which mixes up all the facts learned so far and presents them randomly.\u00a0 Again the student has to do up to 30 problems and can only hesitate on 2 or them or he or she has to start over.\u00a0 But once the student proves that all of those facts can be answered without hesitation, the game moves on to the next level, introducing two more facts and their reverses.<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In the Worksheet Program, students practice with a partner.\u00a0 In the Online Game the student practices with the computer.\u00a0 In both versions of Rocket Math the students follow the same careful sequence and slowly, but successfully build mastery of all of the facts in an operation.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard work and takes a while, but we try to make it fun along the way.\u00a0 It will work for everybody, but not everybody is willing to do the work.\u00a0 At least, now you understand how Rocket Math is designed so it can teach mastery of math facts.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At first, it may seem like the way Rocket Math presents the same simple facts over and over, is so easy it must be a waste of time. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But like anything you learn, you have to start where it seems easy and then build up to where it is hard.\u00a0 Rocket Math […]<\/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":[42],"tags":[35,37,43,36,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010"}],"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=38010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38011,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions\/38011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}