The Fact Tactics™ Fluency Program

“Memorizing multiplication facts can be a source of anxiety, frustration, and eventual disaffection from mathematics. In The Fact Tactics Fluency Program, author Juli K. Dixon moves beyond rote memorization by positioning fluency with mathematics facts as a byproduct of thinking, reasoning, and number experiences. Students use the strategies in this program to achieve fluency through active sense-making and the co-construction of ideas that build networks of connections between what is known and not known, familiar and unfamiliar, and fluency and reason.”

“Juli Dixon’s book, The Fact Tactics Fluency Program, provides practical, ready-to-implement strategies to help students grow their multiplication fact fluency. The program, grounded in decades of research, offers six tactics for teachers to introduce, reinforce, and assess students’ development of mathematics reasoning skills and automaticity. If you want to move away from repetitive, memorization-based strategies toward reasoning and sense-making to help students learn multiplication, then this book is for you!”

“I highly recommend Juli Dixon’s book, The Fact Tactics Fluency Program, for current and pre-service teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders and administrators as a guide to embracing a meaningful fluency approach to mathematics reasoning and flexibility around multiplication. Usable and easy to digest, it offers six simple tactics and precise guidance on fostering student fluency with multiplication facts. The reproducible fact cards and assessments make it easy to instantly start collaborating with your team and engage students in developing fluency!”

“Grades 3–6 teachers recognize the challenge of prioritizing multiplication fact mastery and ensuring fluency by all students. Enter Juli Dixon’s powerful and accessible book, The Fact Tactics Fluency Program. Dixon’s strategies for reasoning and conceptual understanding, not mindless practice and memorization, are key to students’ academic success! This book provides the practical guidance and a sensible set of wisely differentiated tactics that recognize diverse learners and have the potential to make us all better mathematics teachers.”

“The Fact Tactics Fluency Program will be a welcome addition to any elementary mathematics classroom! In this book, Juli Dixon provides teachers with a systematic approach for helping students learn basic multiplication facts and build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. Instead of drill and kill, this program uses a strategy-focused order of instruction that helps students make connections as they use known facts to derive unknown facts. The engaging, student-centered, interactive activities emphasize the role reasoning and sense-making play in learning and understanding multiplication facts.”