And the answer is, is that we have a skip counting songs that we sing throughout the year and the kids love these songs and generally they're able to memorize all of these songs.
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And you might be wondering, well, what do I do with a prop? How is my student going to use touch points to solve a problem like 6 times 7 where most students don't know how to count by their 6s and 7s. And most students by the end of the year will be able to do that. It would be just 5, ten, 15, 20, 25, 30, and they could just touch those points on their page without even having to refer to the touch point strip. They could simply just wave their pencil above these points to count on the number like this. Ideally, as students become very familiar with where these touch points are, they wouldn't even have to go onto the strip. I don't yet know how to count by 6s, so they would go to the 6 on their touch point, strip, and they would just simply touch right here and count by 5s for 5, ten, 15, 20, 25, 30. So for example, with the problem 5 times 6, they would think to themselves, well, I know how to count by my 5s. Other students who have difficulties, for example, with copying these touch points from their strip onto these numbers and doing it with accuracy might find it easier just to go to the strip to help solve a problem. So I put those touch points on my four, and then I skip count by 5s while touching those points for 5, ten, 15, 20. The one that you don't feel comfortable skip counting by. So most students would probably choose to put their touch points on the four because you want to put your touch points on the tricky number. If I have the problem for times 5, it is easier for students to count by 5s, generally than their fours. So it would look like this, three, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18. Like this, and then they would count by threes while touching those points. So they would draw their touch points on the 6. So that means they're going to draw their touch points on the number that it's difficult to count by. If I have a problem such as three times 6, first, I just need to think to myself, well, do I know how to count by threes easier or is it easier for me to count by 6s? To start for most students in the beginning of the year, it's probably easier for them to count by their threes. And now it's just a matter of applying these touch points towards multiplication. So if your student was in our classroom since the beginning of the year, then you will, then these students will be very familiar with these already. We use these touch points in our classroom for addition and subtraction. So for example, with the 9 where we have these dots with circles going down the stem, we touch each of those twice, and then inside the bubble here, we've got just single dots we touch each of those once, so it would look like this. So it would go one, two, three, four, 5, 6. That means that you touch that point twice. Once we get to the 6, it looks a little different here. So the number three has one, two, three dots, the number 5 has one, two, three, four, 5 dots. You will notice that each dot each number excuse me has dots that obviously correspond to that number. All of the students in our classroom have this touchpoint strip on their home folder. Welcome to multiplication with touch points.
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