Saturday, January 14, 2012

New Study Reveals Only 12% of Fifth-Graders Have Mastered Basic Multiplication Facts

Provo, UT (PRWEB) January 09, 2012 The Common Core Standards list multiplication fluency as ?critical? for third-graders because students cannot move on to higher order math without it. However, an unprecedented new study involving over 250,000 students nationwide reveals that even by fifth grade, 88 percent of students fail to master at least 90 percent of their basic multiplication facts.
The study was organized by Big Brainz, an educational software company committed to developing the ultimate fact fluency supplement, and was administered independently by over 500 different districts during the 2010-2011 school year. Schools used the simple pre-test built into Big Brainz' multiplication game, Timez Attack, to ask more than

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