A surprising number of students get to high school and don’t have the basic arithmetic skills mastered.
So they end up struggling through high school algebra and think they’re “bad” at math, but really they just weren’t taught the addition and multiplication tables. A lot upper level app math requires the usage of multiple concepts and steps. If someone has to reach for a calculator or think too hard about the arithmetic, they can’t stay in the mental “flow” needed to work through a problem.
But it’s not too hard to get to speed on the basic skills. Here are some simple test sheets to build that foundation:
These pages generate a new set of questions each time they are loaded(just refresh the page to create a new set). When you print each sheet, fold over the right third of the page to hide the answers.
Each sheet has 66 questions and your goal is to be able to easily answer a simple arithmetic calculation in 2 seconds or less. So your target is to finish a sheet in 132 seconds or less. Keep practicing daily until you reach that goal. If you can do a sheet correctly in that time, you know you have the basic foundation.