We keep working on expanding our free worksheet pages, and today we’re introducing a new section of free and printable flashcards. We’re beginning with flashcards for the basic math facts – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The idea is that you print out the pages, fold each page down the centre and then cut each individual card out with a front and back for each card.
More will follow as we have plans to offer flashcards for the alphabet, sight words, numbers, telling time, homophones, skip counting, and more. Let us know if there are any specific areas you’d like flashcards for, and we’ll include those in our plans.
So why flashcards – here’s some science to back up the benefits of using flashcards:
Flashcards are one of the most effective ways for motivated learners to study and retain factual knowledge. Students who use flashcards:
- engage a mental faculty known as active recall (remembering a concept from scratch rather than staring at a passage in a textbook);
- engage metacognition (by looking at the answer on the back they reflect on how well they answered compared to the correct answer on the back), and this metacognition tends to ingrain memories deeper into your knowledge;
- engage in confidence-based repetition (as flashcards are loose and can be separated into piles based on whether (or how often) you need to study them again). This repetitive practice is the most optimal way to improve memory of facts.
