Help students readily learn basic number facts with the lessons and powerful visual models in The Box and Book of Facts.
The thinking strategies are organized into an easy-to-use teaching sequence that helps students grasp number-fact relationships and promotes retention of basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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The Box of Facts
This innovative kit helps all students, including those with limited English proficiency, to understand how and why thinking strategies work. Students build confidence as they use powerful visual models to develop fluency with the number facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Each card is coded based on the thinking strategy it develops. Cards are grouped into packs that include step-by-step instructions. The cards included in the set introduce and develop every number fact for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
The Book of Facts
Students expand their skills and confidence by engaging in activities and games that introduce, reinforce, practice, and extend their thinking strategies.
The Book of Facts series also compliments the resources included in The Box of Facts. Use these with ready-made Box of Facts cards, or make your own cards with the blueprints provided.