I would like to go back to reviewing basic skills in all grade levels daily and coming out of our text books for good. The text confuses most students. The language is either confusing or not relevant for the skill needing to be taught. I do the basic math facts test daily. During our measurement unit I created a measurement fact sheet to cover for the last three weeks. My students did great. When I returned to the basic math facts sheets the students scores were okay but they had lost the 100 facts in 3 minutes. They were back to 100 facts in under 10 minutes. I hate to sound dated but Practice, Practice, Practice still holds true in the teaching of mathematics. They need to spiral back to all basic concepts to retain the information that we would like to build upon in the 5th grade.