Math Fact Fluency Friday: The Best Way to End the Week

I don’t know about you, but I love Fridays. There’s something about the happiness of a Friday that makes us as teachers change things up a little bit. In my 2nd grade classroom, we always had “Free Choice Friday” for the last 20 minutes of the day, but in the morning, I wanted a new tradition. That’s when I started with Fact Fluency Friday! Plus, I’m sharing a free board game you can download at the end of this post!

While I’ll share how I did this with 2nd grade, you can start Fact Fluency Fridays at ANY grade! The 2nd grade standards require students to build addition and subtraction fluency to 20, so that’s what all of our games focused on. If you’re a different grade level, just use your own fact fluency standards!

What is Fact Fluency Friday?

Fact Fluency Friday is an engaging, meaningful way to start Fridays with your students. It gives students a chance to practice their math facts in a fun way with friends! I always held Fact Fluency Fridays as the very first activity my students did when they arrived in the morning. However, if that’s not an option in your classroom, you could try it as a fun 10-12 minute way to start or end your math block.

Materials for Fact Fluency Friday

I’m all about LOW prep, so I love board games, card games, and memory games that I can reuse. I try not to include any games with recording sheets, but I do have a few partner board games where students use crayons to color and find math facts. Those typically are fine because I can run a ton of copies at once and be good to go for a while.

Here are some of our favorite games to use:

• Print & Play Fact Fluency Board Games – these games are ZERO prep!
• Addition Fact Fluency Games & Activities
• Subtraction Fact Fluency Games & Activities
• Addition & Subtraction Board Games

Scroll to the bottom of this post to get the math checkers board games for free!

Managing Fact Fluency Friday

Because I held mine during morning arrival time, students quickly found a buddy, chose a game, and went off to play. Students were not allowed to sit and wait for a friend to arrive because they could be waiting for a while! They had to find someone who was also ready to play at the same time. Depending on the game, I limited them to three students maximum.

Some board games are quicker than others, so I allow students to switch out their games ONCE. That meant that they could play two different games, if they had time, during Fact Fluency Friday. I like to make it easy on myself, so I set out the games on a table and students could choose freely.

Get Started in Your Classroom

I hope you’re ready to start Fact Fluency Friday in your classroom! If you want to start, compile all of your fact fluency centers and games and pull out the ones you know your students love. You only need a few games to get started; you can always add more later!

Do you need some fact fluency games to get you started? You can grab these 4 math checkers board games for FREE!! Just click here!

If you need addition fact fluency games, you’ll love these games for ways to make 10, doubles & doubles plus one, and making 10 to add! You can read more about addition fact fluency activities here!