Memoria Math Challenge Level E Student Drills provides continued practice with multiplication and division along with exercises in mixed computation, ciphers, and measurement equivalencies. The Memoria Math Challenge: Level E Teacher Key contains all the answers for the drills.
When it comes to administering these drills, be encouraging and enthusiastic. Let students know that we want to see “what they can do” and that they are only competing with themselves. Students will mirror your enthusiasm. Students will only need a copy of the drill and a pencil. There is no need to use erasers to correct answers during a drill; it just slows down speed. if a student makes a mistake during the timed portion of the drill, encourage him to “x” out the incorrect answer and write the correct answer beside it.
We would recommend that you start your timer at 0 and let it count up rather than down from a specific time. This alleviates student anxiety. Students are only competing with their own time, so they should be trying to beat their previous score each day, shaving off seconds as they gain mastery. Typically, you should expect students to complete each drill within 10 minutes.
Memoria Press’ mathematics program is based on mastery learning that utilizes memorization and repeated practice in the lower grades. Students must overlearn basic math skills in middle school in order to be successful in the more conceptual high school math.