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Join Dr. Poncy as he discusses the benefits of declarative fact fluency when teaching mathematics. The fluent retrieval of basic facts provides distinct advantages over the reliance on multistep counting strategies as students work to access and link prior knowledge with new information to expand math skills.
He will review empirical literature that shows five ways fluent responding with a sequenced set of critical skills supports numeracy development:
1) Increased rates of practice/opportunities to respond
2) Increased rates of reinforcement/decreased effort
3) Diminished demands on cognitive load
4) Skill maintenance &
5) Skill generalization
Singularly, each of these are vitally important to student learning, the aggregation of these provides a compelling argument for the necessity of fluent responding with foundational skills. The webinar will conclude with Dr. Poncy providing data from a 5-year longitudinal study which shows the effect of these practices.
Dr. Brian Poncy
Dr. Brian Poncy is a Professor of School Psychology at Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on academic interventions and behavioral principles of learning, specifically in the area of mathematics.
Dr. Poncy created the Measures & Interventions for Numeracy Development (M.I.N.D.), a set of free materials to support teachers in the assessment and implementation of empirically-validated interventions to increase early numeracy and computation skills (www.factsonfire.com). He is a co-author of Effective Math Interventions:
A Guide to Improving Whole-Number Knowledge. To access sample trainings, podcast appearances, and research go to https://experts.okstate.edu/brian.poncy