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Strategies that help students commit basic facts to memory include:

  • practising by playing games, such as Domino Drop, Roll-O, and Over-Easy Doubles;
  • and having frequent opportunities to practise.

– Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math – A Teacher’s Guide, p.4

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