Strategy Instruction and Maintenance of Basic Multiplication Facts through Digital Game Play

It is essential that students develop fluency in basic multiplication during grades three through five, in order to achieve mastery of elementary arithmetic. Instruction during these grades is typically focused on teaching students multiplication facts via drills and rote memorization so they are able to quickly retrieve answers to multiplication facts. If automaticity of multiplication facts is not developed and maintained, learners typically struggle to develop subsequent math concepts for which multiplication facts are a prerequisite. In conjunction to the memorization of multiplication facts, students should be presented with the opportunity to learn about and explore the concepts related to multiplication. This allows for the development of mathematical proficiency that goes beyond the computaABSTRACT