Math Fact Fluency Kits!

We are excited to announce that 6 Math Fact Fluency kits are now at the DLRC! These kits are all based around the book, “Math Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention” by J. Bay-Williams and G. Kling. The kit includes a copy of the book and a variety of math manipulatives to support the games outlined in the book. These kits include:

-1 Math Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention Resource Book
-24 decks of playing cards, housed in large zippered pouch
-100 snap cubes, also housed in large zippered pouch
-100 teddy bear counters (various sizes), housed in 5 small pouches
-100 coloured dice, housed in plastic tub
-20 blank dice, housed in one small pouch
-180 blank cards for dry erase pens, housed in 2 small pouches
-200 double-sided counters, housed in one small pouch
-10 red 10-sided dice, housed in one small pouch
-6 plastic bowls
-5 & 10 frame cards (laminated; 12 each) with elastic
-24 dry erase markers
Want to know more about how to build fact fluency with your students? Watch the introduction video to this kit!

Growing Garlic

Ben is on the allotment with his Mum. They would like to grow some garlic and are deciding how to plant the garlic cloves.
Ben arranges the cloves into three equal rows and finds that he has one spare clove.
How many cloves might he have had to start with?
How do you know?
the tricky matter of when to harvest garlic - A Way To Garden
Ben plants cloves of garlic in two equal rows and has one clove left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in three equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in four equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in five equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in six equal rows and still has one left over.
We know that he has fewer than 100 garlic cloves. How many did he have?
How do you know?

How many cloves might he have had if there were more than 100?

Problem from Enrich Math.