Time For Multiplication Practice If....
Thursday May 8, 2008
Teacher: "Who can tell me what 7 times 6 is?"
Student: "It's 42!"
Teacher: "Very good! - And who can tell me what 6 times 7 is?"
Student again: "It's 24!"
I wonder if there is any research out there telling us that kids just don't commit the facts to memory like they used to?
Student: "It's 42!"
Teacher: "Very good! - And who can tell me what 6 times 7 is?"
Student again: "It's 24!"
I wonder if there is any research out there telling us that kids just don't commit the facts to memory like they used to?
Comments
We do not need a research report telling us that kids today are spending less time in “memorizing” the multiplication tables, it is not just kids problem, it is the attitude of change of different generations.
Teacher do not demand and parents think it is school’s responsibility to make sure kids are grtaspiing the basics, and kids fall through cracks.
It is this reason that my Multiplication workbook has over 300 pages. Get them to “rremember” naturally by working on worksheets. It seems to have worked so far for those kids who do not keen on memorizing themselves.
Any tricks or tipe or fingering do them no good, the best is still they can recall with reasonable speed of all facts.