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  Welcome to eNews & Views

  R.I.C. eNews and Views is a new monthly e-newsletter which will provide you with a combination of interesting and thought provoking articles about education in Australian primary schools as well as a regular update on what we are doing at R.I.C. Publications.

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  No more drill and kill teaching basic facts

  In my 11 years of teaching Years 3 and 4, I have noticed and taken an interest in how children learn the basic maths facts. I conducted an action research project in which I studied approaches to teaching maths facts and concluded that students learn and retain automaticity of facts when they are taught the facts by using strategies and looking for patterns, and are given opportunities for meaningful practice.

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