Recently I did a video over on my vlog about A Big Mistake Educators Make When Building Math Fluency.  The mistake is that we directly teach students strategies.

Then I was looking through the book Putting Essential Understanding of Addition and Subtraction into Practice in PreK-Grade 2, I came across a section that described a lot of what I was trying to convey in my video just in a different way.

Now, I know this is from a PreK-Grade 2 book, but if you are an upper elementary teacher, as I read this section, think about how this applies to your situation.  Are you teaching multiplication or division in this same way??

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