How did you learn your Multiplication?

[oscash]

We would spend sometimes a full Math class reciting our times tables. Then the Nun would fire a question 10 x 9 and if you got it wrong, one whack of the bamboo stick. I was terrified of that stick and made sure I recited them 'parrot fashion' as it was known in those days. I can still answer correctly, much to the surprise of my 30-year-old granddaughter who still struggles with it.

 

[Jazzy1]

Multiplication flash cards

 

[Aunt Bea]

and don’t forget the gazintas, 2 gazinta 6, 3 gazinta 9, 4 gazinta 12…

 

[Paladin1950]

We memorized them from the text book. In one class, the teacher would walk by the desks and ask a student, "What is 7x6?" The student would say, "42!" Some were easy to figure out immediately like 3 fours are twelve. To this day, I still have them memorized.

 

[HoneyNut]

To this day, I still have them memorized.

I've found myself forgetting them, though I do okay for the 8x because I play a farming game and have my crop squares set up in rows of 8.

 

[asp3]

In fourth grade we had time on some days (I don't recall how many) where the teacher would play a record that said a multiplication problem (eight times three or four times seven) and we filled in the answer in a grid we made up on a blank piece of paper. When we were done we corrected the sheets. It really got me fully on board for remembering the answers.

 

[IrishEyes]

In fourth grade we had time one some days (I don't recall how many) where the teacher would play a record that said a multiplication problem (eight times three or four times seven) and we filled in the answer in a grid we made up on a blank piece of paper. When we were done we corrected the sheets. It really got me fully on board for remembering the answers.

Never heard of that way... interesting Thank You