Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 90.  Today we are looking at The Missing Piece to Math Fluency.

Back in 2014 I wrote the book Fluency through Flexibility.  That book is all about building students flexibility with the numbers 0-20 to help them build their fluency with addition and subtraction within 20.  Fast forward a few years to 2016 when I created my first online course called Number Sense 101.  It was all about how to build number sense in order to help kids build their fluency in PreK-2 and a few years later I created one for 3rd-5th called Number Sense 201.  Well, this last year I redid both of those courses and when I did that I called them The Flexibility Formula. 

Back in 2014 when I wrote the book I knew the key to building kids’ fluency was to build their flexibility.  When I was redesigning the course I didn’t even think about my old book, however I ended up coming full circle back to the idea that flexibility is the missing piece to building kids’ fluency with math.

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