How did you learn your Multiplication?
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PeppermintPatty
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I memorized it.
OldFeller
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In elementary school, we recited out loud, as a class, the multiplication tables from x1 to x12.
We did this more than a few times.
Before you knew it, you knew them.
We did this more than a few times.
Before you knew it, you knew them.
I am asking because this is how they are teaching my grand daughter, on this chart.
She was told to use the chart. She is having trouble memorizing them this way and she is a smart girl.
Daddy was hurting watching her pushing herself and showed her the way I bet we were all taught.
She picked it up much faster his way and then told Daddy "I can't tell her how I learned them because
we HAVE to use this chart"
She was told to use the chart. She is having trouble memorizing them this way and she is a smart girl.
Daddy was hurting watching her pushing herself and showed her the way I bet we were all taught.
She picked it up much faster his way and then told Daddy "I can't tell her how I learned them because
we HAVE to use this chart"
CinnamonSugar
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That chart makes my eyes cross, just looking at it.
Nathan
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I believe we did the same, plus I think in one class we used flash cards as well.
OldFeller
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Today they don't teach kids anything but how to look things up.
Because of computers, there's no need to remember anything unless you plan to go on Jeopardy!
dobielvr
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I've never seen a chart like that. I remember math from just doing math problems over and over. Repetition for me is my teacher. It becomes instilled in my brain.
If teacher finds out daddy taught her different he may have to sit in the corner at next open house
hollydolly
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Same.....
hollydolly
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...and that's a real concern for future levels of Dementia.....
hollydolly
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Exactly, mine too.....
not to mention if the power grids go out and tablets and phones aren't working
OldFeller
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First thing I do in a blackout is start multiplying like there's no tomorrow!
hawkdon
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Do not recall how I learned that, but do recall having to take the whole math year a second time.....
PeppermintPatty
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This is how we learned them also. Each day for about 15 minutes or so weād be tested on them. After a while we just knew them all by heart.
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hollydolly
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I was uselss at maths I could do basic maths but I just couldn't get the hang of multiplying and dividing fractions and showing how I came to my answer...and my father would stand over me while I was doing my homework and when I just couldn't get it he would slap me on the back of my head every time..Do not recall how I learned that, but do recall having to take the whole math year a second time.....
(this was of course long before kids were allowed calculators in class)
needless to say I failed all my maths exams.. by about 2 %.... then in my final year at Exam time.. I went into the maths exam full of dread.. knowing I was going to fail... and when they passed out the papers.. I look at them, and it was like scales fell from my eyes.. and like magic I suddenly understood how to do the fraction, long divisions.... and for the first and only time at school... and when it mattered most I passed my Maths exam... ony by 7 %.... 57 %... but it was enough !
I'm very good at mental arithmetic.. people who know me are astonished how well I could work things out in my head.. but to sit and write it down long hand.. and show how I came to my answer ..when I was a kid, was just beyond me...
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I am a mental visual learner also, let me watch it or do it so I can store the visual in my head and I am good to go.
DailyArtsyCrafter
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I learned through a small multiplication card like that. It had smaller #s and no dark green borders. It was easy to read it though. I think there were at least 2 printed colors on the card, black and red, and the junctions of the multiples were highlighted in some way.
I found the chart fascinating. Can't recall if we had to recite out loud but we probably did. Eventually, I did memorize them, possibly because I found out later in life that I am very good at memorizing. That card was one of my fondest memories from childhood, and I have very few fond memories.
I found the chart fascinating. Can't recall if we had to recite out loud but we probably did. Eventually, I did memorize them, possibly because I found out later in life that I am very good at memorizing. That card was one of my fondest memories from childhood, and I have very few fond memories.
Imogene
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ChiroDoc
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We just learned multiplication by rote. There were no charts or other aids. Just a blackboard and white chalk.
I remember taking a little chart similar to that home to practice from, I don't think we learned 'from' the chart, I think we said them out loud a lot at school and we had to memorize them all, and the chart was for comparing to make sure when we practiced at home (via memory) that we were getting the right result.
LoveTulips
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No chart like that in my school, had to memorize.
Veronica
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We memorized them by writing them down. A whole lots of times.
This worked well for me since I have a "written" memory.
Writing things down is the way I remember things.
This worked well for me since I have a "written" memory.
Writing things down is the way I remember things.