Achieving math fluency and automaticity is difficult for students with disabilities to master. Automaticity is defined as the fast, accurate, and effortless processing of content information. It is also referred to as math fact fluency. Computational fluency is being able to efficiently and accurately carry out procedures to solve computation problems relies heavily on automaticity with basic number facts.
FASTT Math (Fluency and Automaticity through Systematic Teaching with Technology; Tom Snyder) is a math intervention program that helps students acquire math fact fluency. The program assesses students' command of basic facts by measuring response time and then generates customized activities based on the results. Students progress through the customized series of activities to strengthen memorization of facts and eliminate the need to rely on counting strategies to solve problems.
Timez Attack focuses on solely on multiplication facts and teaching the 2 to 12 times tables. It is produced by the team that created Sony Playstation so it engages students in a high-tech video game environment featuring high quality graphics.
The ArithmAttack can be played online or downloaded free onto your computer and played off-line with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Students can practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. The problems are customized and students practice according to their needs.
Arcademic Skill Builder math games are designed to help develop automaticity in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers, fractions, and ratios. It can be played using 1-4 players, and can be customized.
I think all of these sites are great to have and keep in mind. I will like to try them out and use them in my own future classroom. It will be interesting to see which ones work best for what students. I am excited to look further into these games!
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