In this episode we speak with TL Eller around developing assessment tools and routines to capture student understanding of their multiplication facts. 

TL is a 3rd / 4th grade educator from Grove City Pennsylvania who has been on a career-long journey to help her students develop fluency and flexibility around math facts. In this chat we help TL focus her next moves on developing some easy to implement ideas on how to capture evidence of her students' multiplication facts. 

This is another Math Mentoring Moment episode where we talk with a member of the Math Moment Maker Community who is working through problems of practice and together we brainstorm possible next steps and strategies to overcome them. 

You’ll Learn: 

• How listening to students can help us to reflect on “why” and “what” we do in the classroom;
• Why many students may feel that they have opponents in math class;
• What should proficiency for multiplication facts look like? 
• What multiplication fact assessments can look like to promote growth; 
• How we can develop an assessment tool to capture multiplication facts. 
• How we can help students build fluency and flexibility around math facts. 

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