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60-Second Strategy: Math Fluency Sprints

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Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their confidence, too.

St. Marys Area Middle School math teacher Nick Rhoades likes to start his classes off with a number sense routine—a short instructional activity designed to build students’ math muscles through repetitive practice. Post-pandemic, Rhoades noticed students struggling with basic computational skills (like simple addition and subtraction). This was slowing them down significantly when working on multistep problems. Enter math fluency sprints. 

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