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Your 14-day trial of Reflex will end soon, and we want to check in and make sure you are seeing great results.

If you haven't read the Reflex Teacher Guide yet, be sure to look it over. It has lots of important information on getting your students up and running with Reflex.

Delving into Fluency Reports

Now that your students are progressing towards fluency, you can start making use of the abundant reporting facilities in Reflex. These reports help you track usage and progress for both individuals and groups, from a variety of viewpoints.

In the Fact Detail reports, for example, you can see precisely which facts and fact families each student has learned. Plus you can see how fluency has evolved over time using the arrows in the upper-left corner, under the student's name.

Hovering over one fact family brings up a detail box (shown below) which clearly displays each of the facts in that family and whether or not the student is fluent, not fluent, or unassessed for that fact. Note that a student may know a fact but still not be reported as "fluent." In order to qualify as fluent, a student must be able to recall the fact quickly and effortlessly... in other words, by reflex!

Students can see their own fact family pyramid and fact grids by hovering their cursor over the avatar in the bottom-right of the screen, then clicking on the icon of four boxes.

You can monitor student fluency and its relationship to usage by means of the Fluency Growth report. This is great for RTI progress monitoring!

The blue line represents the student's number of fluent facts on each day (note the buttons to view the student's Total Fluent Facts, or only New Fluent Facts mastered in Reflex). You can change the scope of the report with the "Date Range" menu. The green horizontal line is the 100% fluency mark.

Click the "Show Usage" checkbox to overlay the student's usage onto their growth report (the purple bars in the graph below). If there is a blue dot at the bottom of the bar, it means the student met their Daily Usage Requirement for the day.

So, what you are looking for in this graph is regular usage bars with blue dots at the bottom of each bar. If you see those, you can also expect to see an upward-trending fluency line!

There is a wealth of information in Reflex reports. Explore them all to see what's most useful to you, and read the Reflex Teacher Guide for some additional pointers.

The Key to Success: 100% Fluency

Math fact fluency refers to the ability to recall the basic facts in all four operations accurately, quickly, and effortlessly. When students achieve automaticity with these facts, they are retrieving them from long-term memory without conscious effort or attention. Attaining this level of mastery enables students to free up their working memory and devote it to problem solving and learning new concepts and skills.

There is a broad base of research supporting the critical role played by fact automaticity throughout elementary school level mathematics and beyond. Students' fact retrieval speed has also been shown to be a significant predictor of scores on standardized tests, including the SAT.

It's important to note that the significance of fact retrieval speed as a predictor of performance is not limited to test items that directly assess computation — it predicts performance on math concept problems, word problems, data interpretation problems, and mathematical reasoning items as well (for more information, see the Reflex White Paper).

By now, if your students have been using Reflex regularly, each one of them should have gained a substantial number of new fluent facts. They're on their way to math fact mastery!

But, don't stop there. Automaticity with all basic math facts is a critical objective. Continued, regular sessions with Reflex can move all your students toward 100% fluency. In addition to preparing them for the challenges of higher mathematics, Reflex also shows students in a very direct way how their efforts are producing results. And perhaps most important of all: it shows them that they can be good at math!

Onward with Reflex

If you have more questions about getting the most out of Reflex, feel free to contact Reflex Customer Support.

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