Enhancing student engagement can be as simple as bringing a bit of friendly math competition to the class. Find out how learning basic math facts is about to get more fun through online games with Reflex!
New Reflex Competitions: Engage your students in math fact fluency competitions
New Reflex Competitions allow teachers to host competitions among different classrooms in the same school building while engaging students in learning. Now, students in one classroom can face off against other classes in a school for fun rivalry while building fact fluency!
Why Reflex Competitions?
Student engagement is key for any concept to stick. With new Reflex Competitions, students throughout your entire school building can participate in fun, fact-filled challenges that increase math fact fluency and school spirit.
Reflex Competitions allow students to compete in a game-filled environment while building speed and accuracy with essential addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. Get ready to watch your students level up their math mastery while boosting school collaboration!
And with new features just for administrators, it’s never been easier to facilitate and monitor competitions between multiple classes. The administrator dashboard is a helpful tool to celebrate math fact fluency success on your campus, from shoutouts on the morning announcements to bulletin boards, newsletter spotlights, class party incentives, and more.
Enhancing math facts and math skills through Reflex Competitions
When students develop fact fluency, they free up their working memory to retrieve math facts with little effort, which allows them to devote more time to advanced problem-solving and learning new skills. Reflex Competitions naturally motivate students to earn the Green Light as they compete against classmates in their same school building. Research found that students who used Reflex with fidelity were 7.4x more likely to reach 100% Reflex fluency compared to students who did not use Reflex as frequently.
More competitions equal more fluency growth and student engagement: a win-win!
Accessing and setting up Reflex Competitions in the classroom
Accessing Reflex Competitions is easy!
Once a competition is active, students do not need to take any additional action when using Reflex. Their individual Reflex data will contribute to the overall Team performance. They just need to earn those Green Lights. The class with the greatest average number of Green Light Days during the competition duration wins!
The importance of math fact fluency
Math fact fluency is the ability of students to accurately, quickly, and effortlessly recall basic math addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication facts. Learning math facts is critical because it sets the foundation for success in more complex math skills and problems. That’s why educators take teaching basic math facts seriously.
Instill student engagement and motivation with Reflex math competition games
Select teachers who worked with ExploreLearning through the development of Reflex Competitions saw increased student engagement. Many reported that students were building fact fluency and earning the Green Light quicker than in previous attempts earlier in the school year. Similarly, one teacher reported that overall scores are also improving. Several noted that students were eager to work as a team with the math fact fluency game.
Reflex Competitions are now available for teachers with a full Reflex subscription. Please contact our team to learn more about accessing Reflex Competitions! We can review pilot opportunities and purchasing details to bring the competitive math fact fluency edge to your campus.
Don’t have Reflex in your classroom yet? Now is the perfect time! Take a free trial to encourage students with effective math fact fluency games!
