DEVELOPING MULTIPLICATION FACT FLUENCY

Endurance of multiplication fact fluency for students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

This study examines the relationship between a critical learning outcome of behavioral fluency and endurance, by comparing the effects of two practice procedures on multiplication facts two through nine. The first procedure, called whole time practice trial, consisted of an uninterrupted 1 minute practice time. The second procedure, endurance building practice trials, had three 20 second practi...

Improving Basic Multiplication Fact Recall for Primary School Students

This study implemented a multiplication program based on systematic practice, aimed at improving children’s recall of basic multiplication facts. Four Year 5 classes were recruited to participate in the study. Two classes practised multiplication facts using pencil and paper worksheets and another two classes practised on computers. Eleven practice sessions (each of 15 minutes duration) were co...

Arithmetic processing in children with spina bifida: Calculation accuracy, strategy use, and fact retrieval fluency.

Three studies compared 98 children with spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM)-a disorder associated with high rates of math disability and spatial deficits-to 94 typically developing children on multidigit subtraction and cognitive addition tasks. Children with SBM were classified into those with reading decoding and math disability, only math disability, and no reading or math disability. Study ...

CULTURAL FLUENCY consequences of culTuRal fluency

308 © 2015 Guilford Publications, Inc. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Humboldt Foundation (Oyserman) and from the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School (Mourey) and the helpful comments we received from Norbert Schwarz, Michigan’s Culture and Self Lab group, and from participants in research seminars and colloquia at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Robert Wye...

Fluency Disorders