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Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Factors Affecting Math Success

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Influence Of The Reflex Math Fact Fluency Program On Math Scores, Tammy D. Cress Jan 2019

Influence Of The Reflex Math Fact Fluency Program On Math Scores, Tammy D. Cress

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Researchers have shown a correlation between students’ math fact fluency and their achievement in higher-level math. The problem investigated by this study was that 59% of students in intermediate elementary grades at the local school were not proficient in math. Guided by Miller’s information processing theory, the purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to examine the influence of the Reflex Math Fact Fluency Program on 2nd graders’ math achievement scores (as a whole group and by gender) after 1 school year of program use. Archival data was purposefully sampled for 98 2nd grade students (n = 50 boys; n …