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FASTT Math is a program designed to help students achieve success in math and to pass school standardized tests. These tests require students to be fast and accurate with math facts in four operations by the time they reach the end of third grade. Often, students struggle with more complex math concepts if they are not fluent in their math facts. FASTT Math is a program from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to help students succeed on their math tests.

Basics of FASTT Match

The program is designed for students who are in second grade of elementary school and beyond. It is appropriate for students who are accelerating their acquisition of math facts as well as for those students are need to catch up. The adaptive technology that the program uses creates a learning progression that is individualized for every student. There is an embedded assessment that ensures students master math facts. The results is that each student's experience is unique, building math fact fluency at a pace and level adapted exactly for that student.

What Does FASTT Math Mean?

The name FASTT comes from the program's instructional model. The model builds Fluency and Automaticity through Systematic Teaching and Technology (FASTT). It is considered to be the fact fluency program that is the most research-based.

About FASTT Math Next Generation

FASTT Math Next Generation introduced several new games. It also offers educators an easy way to implement the program, with a teacher dashboard, a leadership dashboard and a student dashboard. It also offers a teacher's guide and lessons in English and Spanish, along with appealing, fun 10-minute instructional sessions that have been proven effective.

Distinctive Instructional Methods

Some of the hallmarks of FASTT match are the scaffolded daily instructional sessions that are designed and individualized for each student who uses the program. The instruction focuses on targeted facts students need to learn, based on their specific assessment. So students can work and learn at a pace that suits them rather than being compared to their peers. They succeed by doing the best work they can do, and advance accordingly.

The games included with FASTT Math Next Generation are designed to help student fluency, by engaging and motivating them. The games use adaptive, independent practice to help students build mastery and gain confidence.

New Learning Features

A student dashboard in FASTT Math Next Generation helps students see exactly how they are doing with their learning goals. When they can see themselves moving forward with each session, students will achieve their goals even faster because they feel like partners and participants in their own learning.

Dashboards for Teachers and Leaders

The program features a newly designed teacher dashboard gives access to data to manage math instruction and provide additional interventions to students who need it most. Educators can access the dashboard at any time from any place and see performance data, usage data, a standards snapshot and various notifications. Teachers may also use the dashboard to schedule report production.

Administrators can leverage a new leadership dashboard to see the data that they need to determine whether their students are meeting their marks. They can access individual school, grade and class data to keep tabs on performance and implementation.

Online Data Management

In addition to all of the features we've outlined, FASST Next Generation includes a comprehensive online management system called SAM. SAM collects and clearly organizes student performance data and accountability requirements. It also supports district-wide data aggregation for teachers, administrators, and technology managers, helping them boost their students and their schools to positions that get the right kind of attention from school districts and beyond.