Increasing Your Students' Mastery of Math Facts and Mental Math Skills (Grades 1-5)

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Are you looking for ways to increase your students' efficiency and accuracy with math facts? Do you want your students to more successfully compute addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math facts with speed and accuracy? Would you like to increase your students' number sense by strengthening their mental math abilities? This outstanding seminar is designed for grades 1-5 teachers who want innovative, classroom-tested ideas and activities that enhance students' proficiency with math facts and mental math.

Sherri Adler will provide you with many outstanding, practical strategies and hands-on lessons to teach math facts and strategies to students in grades 1-5. While the focus will be on increasing students' mastery of math facts, other areas that will be addressed include increasing students' number sense and problem-solving skills by strengthening their mental math abilities. You will leave this fast-paced seminar with dozens of practical strategies and ideas to help your grades 1-5 students feel good about mathematics and demonstrate proficiency mastering math facts.

Development and understanding of number sense is vital to a student's understanding and learning of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division math facts. Students need strategies that allow them to learn these facts and how to transfer these skills to more and more complex mathematical problems.

What appropriate techniques can educators use to help students master math facts? What academic activities will most benefit students? What alternatives are there to timed math tests? During our day together, I will provide you with a variety of strategies so your students CAN master math facts, as well as develop strong number sense by increasing their mental math abilities.

I am very excited to share many outstanding, classroom-tested ideas that you can easily adapt to fit the needs of your own grades 1-5 math program. Throughout the day, we will learn how to engage students in many independent, partner, small group, and whole group activities/lessons designed for mastering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math facts. In addition, I will provide assessment ideas and suggestions. I will share many hands-on activities that will easily become part of your daily math instruction, and activities and academic games that your students will beg you to do with them again and again!

Please join me for an energizing day filled with practical ideas and suggestions you can use to greatly enhance the math skills of your grades 1-5 students!

P.S. I will provide you with the strategies you need so that your students CAN master their math facts.

Educators Serving Grades 1-5: Classroom Teachers, Math Specialists, Interventionists, Resource Specialists, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Math Coaches, and Administrators

Extensive Math Facts Digital Resource Handbook You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in increasing mastery of math facts and mental math skills in their grades 1-5 students.

Consultation Available Sherri Adler will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own math program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Numerous, practical strategies and lessons to develop students' mastery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts
• Increase your students' fluency with math facts and strengthen their mental math ability
• A wealth of practical and creative grades 1-5 math activities and resources that are easy to implement
• Receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with ideas, lessons and student samples you can use in your own grades 1-5 classroom