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<\/a>You can change how fast the student has to answer, but you probably should not.\u00a0 The main goal of Rocket Math is for students to commit facts to memory, to be able to answer them instantly, from recall. That is called “automaticity.”\u00a0 It is the point of Rocket Math.<\/p>\nRecall is instantaneous, but \u201cfiguring out\u201d is not.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The fast pace (3 seconds to input an answer) means students don\u2019t have time to count on their fingers or to \u201cfigure out\u201d a fact\u2013they just have to remember it.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t remember, then the game gives them a LOT of practice on only a couple of facts, until they do remember them. That is exactly the point of the game. The game gives more practice through having students start parts over when they are not able to answer quickly.<\/p>\n We want them to stop having to \u201cfigure out\u201d facts and just remember the answer.\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0If the students are not used to \u201crecalling\u201d facts they will think that the game is just \u201ctoo fast\u201d for them.\u00a0 If they keep playing and learning, after a bunch of repetitions, they will be able to remember the fact.\u00a0 \u00a0These days students are NOT asked to memorize anywhere else. Today’s students are unaccustomed to having to repeat things over and over to commit them to memory.<\/strong>\u00a0 Almost everyone can do it, but it takes more practice than many students are used to doing. Consider the Toughness Certificate [located in the Online Game’s main navigation bar] for those who can overcome their frustration at having to start over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>The danger in slowing the game down for most students.\u00a0<\/strong> If you let students play at the slower speeds they may never use “recall” and instead may figure out the facts over and over.\u00a0 Until I realized the difference, I allowed my students to take their time to figure out facts.\u00a0 Many of my students never committed facts to memory all year long!\u00a0 If, as we do in Rocket Math, you only ask them to remember two facts and their reverses at a time, everyone can remember two facts.\u00a0 It takes just a few minutes to realize that they can, in fact, remember that answer instantaneously.\u00a0 Once they use recall, they remember the answer in less than a second, and then three seconds to input it, is quite doable.\u00a0 If you slow down the game speed, they may NEVER realize they can remember the fact, instead of figuring it out each time.<\/p>\n<\/a>Only if their difficulty score is over 3.0 do they need an adjustment made.\u00a0<\/strong> Their difficulty score, shown on the Review Progress screen [Top of Main Navigation bar] tells you whether or not the game is too fast for them.<\/p>\n\n