Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 74.  Today we are talking about Why Children Have Difficulties with their Math Facts.

Why Children Have Difficulties Mastering the Basic Number Combinations and How to Help Them by Arthur Baroody is the article that opened my eyes to the true root of student difficulties with mastering their math facts: A Lack of Number Sense.  

The reason I fell in love with this article was because I saw myself in it.  I saw myself as the learners he talks about and I even saw myself as some of the teachers he talks about.  In the article he describes what ‘Conventional Wisdom’ says to help students who are struggling but then opposes that with the “Number Sense View.”  He does this for 3 different scenarios related to helping kids learn their facts. Get the link to the article here: buildmathminds.com/74