I still have some students in my third grade class that do not know their 9 facts from memory. The other day, I did 8x9 as a number talk to see what strategies my students would mentally use to solve this fact if they don’t know it from memory…yet. Here were two different strategies my students shared. They explained their thinking to me orally, and I documented what they said. This video is me recapping their thinking. I love how they use what they know to help them figure this out. It shows me