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Computational Fluency

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There’s a scene in the award-winning film A Beautiful Mind where the real-life math genius John Nash (played masterfully by Russell Crowe) stands before two massive screens full of cryptic numbers formulated by an enemy government and computes in his mind for hours until he demystifies the code.

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Fact Fluency: Beyond Rote Learning

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When it comes to multiplication, they possess fact fluency , but not computational fluency. Like humans, Multiplydons attend school and study math, but their curriculum naturally omits memorization of the multiplication tables and skips ahead to their application.

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Use Music and Exercise to Teach Math Fluency

Middle Web

Kathleen Palmieri uses song and movement to engage fifth graders in computation fluency. The post Use Music and Exercise to Teach Math Fluency first appeared on MiddleWeb. Without good math fact recall, many students become discouraged about building math knowledge and solving equations.

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Supporting Districts to Develop Inclusive Computing Pathways

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In North Salem Central School District, every student is encouraged to engage with computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS). CT pathways are system-wide K-12 programs supporting equitable participation in computational thinking. focused on elements such as “data practices” and “understanding and using algorithms”).

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Advancing Digital Literacy for a Digitally Inclusive Future

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Need your computer hooked up to the projector? But a discrepancy exists when considering students’ digital fluency compared with their digital literacy, and both sets of skills are required in their future. Such skills can include media literacy, visual literacy and technology fluency , depending on the class age and context.

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I Worked for ESL Companies with Lousy Curriculums. Here’s What I Learned — And What You Should Look For.

ED Surge

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. It doesn’t help you gauge students’ understanding or, in the case of new students, fluency, so you can’t know what you should adjust. These elements would add more tools for tutors to adjust as needed.

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New from Origo Stepping Stones for This Summer

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Check these out: Access a library of over thirty ORIGO 1 videos (and growing) through YouTube (search ORIGO Education ) and on their Vimeo Channel www.vimeo.com/channels/ORIGO1 with strategies and models to build fluency and understanding. Supports computational fluency with extendable strategies and meaningful practice.

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