Blasting Off with Rocket Math!

We are blasting off with our addition facts in first grade!  Students have learned how to practice with a partner and take a 1 minute test to help them learn addition facts!  Research supports that students who know their math facts will be more successful when solving harder math problems. 

Practice makes perfect!!  We practice Rocket Math everyday!  Students start on Level A (simple addition facts) and move up the Rocket everytime they pass their goal!  On Fridays, we take a 3 minute practice test that has 50 mixed addition problems.  Your child's goal is to be able to complete 50 problems in 3 minutes by the end of first grade.

Passing their Rocket Math goal helps your child to be fluent with their addition facts.  If they bring home a rocket math paper and didn't pass, you can orally practice at home! 
Here is how you practice:
*Sit with your child and listen to them say the addition facts around the perimeter of the rectangle. 
*If they get one wrong, say to them:
Stop
Check your answer.  The answer is _____.
Say it three times. 
*Then have your child go back three problems and start again.