GETCA 2025

Session description Are your junior high students still struggling with basic facts? This session will show you our simple yet effective Thinking Strategies approach to help your students develop fluency including “chunking” facts into groups for ease of learning, developing efficient thinking strategies for each chunk, and the importance of practice. You will leave this session with a tried-and-true approach for achieving basic fact mastery and ways to incorporate this into your classroom practices. Why is this session relevant to teachers? Why this is an important session: It provides an effective and straightforward approach to teaching basic facts. What will be the learning: Chunking facts, commutative or turnaround property of basic facts, thinking strategies for basic facts, and John Van de Walle’s stages of building mastery. Focus: Basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Takeaway: Teachers will understand the theory behind basic fact mastery and will have approaches to effectively build mastery in their classroom.