Our final piece of the puzzle in helping children accelerate the basic math skills needed for life is math facts. Math Facts are the third key component to success in math. 

Some public schools are not putting any emphasis on math facts but still expecting correct and speedy answers on classroom assignments and standardized tests.  This is counter intuitive.  It only makes sense that when children have a rapid recall of math facts they enjoy math assignments more as it takes less time to finish a lesson and there are minimal to no corrections needed.  The struggle often is, how to get a child to retain math facts. 

The educational system has come up with these “magic” cards with a problem and no answer that make the children want to hide when they see them because they don’t know the answer.  The other “tool” often used is a speed drill with 70+ problems and the instructions given are, “Get faster at this!” 

Not equipping a child with instant recall of math facts is like strapping their legs together and asking them to run faster.  If math facts mastery is your goal, try The Rapid Recall System created by former home school mom and now Master NeuroDevelopmentalist, Dr. Jan Bedell. 

Here your children will see, hear, say and write five specific math facts 14 times a day and only two of those times is information coming from the child.  Instead of asking the children to guess at the answer which reinforces the wrong answer when they say it wrong, with Rapid Recall, the children have twelve times of input where the information is going in so it is stored for easy access.  The good news is that it only takes 6-9 minutes a day and after 5 days, they are on to the next set of facts with daily reinforcement of the previously learned facts. 

Not sure if your child needs to work on math facts? Take this Math Facts Proficiency Test and see how the score compares to different grade levels in this skill. No matter what the age, Rapid Recall System can help your budding mathematicians to retain math facts for life.