Capstone task 2.docx Improving Multiplication Fact Fluency in a Fourth Grade Classroom

Capstone task 2.docx    Improving Multiplication Fact Fluency in a Fourth Grade Classroom  Capstone Prospectus  Research Topic  I am enrolled in the Master  of Arts, Mathematics Education (K-6) degree program. The purpose of this study is to research strategies that can help fourth graders to increase fluency of multiplication facts so that, in later grades, they can be successful in learning new concepts that rely on this automaticity.  €œTeachers often comment that this is a topic that students struggle to master €,  (Thomson & Gay, 2020 p.558).  This study will benefit elementary teachers, in the fourth grade, so they can teach fluent recall of multiplication facts.  This topic is important to me because in the Algebra class I co-teach, ninth- graders struggle with learning math concepts when they do not have  fluent recall of multiplication facts, causing them to lose interest in further learning of conc