I created this one-pager to demonstrate visually where students might be on their path toward mastering addition facts. It's useful to pinpoint whether students are still counting on their fingers (Stage 1: Counting Strategies), using known facts to determine unknown facts (Stage 2: Reasoning Strategies), or ready to state sums quickly and without effort (Stage 3: Fluency and Automaticity). One cannot jump from Stage 1 to Stage 3, but rather must progress step by step. This document also notes t