2006-09-19 00:45:21 · 12 answers · asked by tinkerbell 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Get them to repeat the times table over and over again to you.
Draw out a table together and put it somewhere they will see it everyday.
Also help them look for patterns they can spot in each number sequence.
For example the 9 series, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, all of the numbers add up to 9 eg, (18, 1+8=9), 36, 3+6=9).
Above all, make it fun and give them lots of praise when they get it right.
2006-09-19 00:57:28 · answer #1 · answered by sw21uk2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Practice, practice, practice.
There's ways to make the practice more fun (flashcard games, computer games) but there's no way to make it _easy_. Any student should have the times table from 1 x 1 to 9 x 9 memorized _cold_ because it's much, much easier to learn complex math if you can instantly recall the simple stuff like the answer to 7 x 8.
There's just no way to get that good at the times tables without plenty of old fashioned practice.
2006-09-19 08:10:09 · answer #2 · answered by yetanotheronlinename 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is cool...
9
18 -- 1+8=9
27 -- 2+7=9
36 -- 3+6=9
45 -- 4+5=9
54 -- 5+4=9
63 -- 6+3=9
72 --7+2=9
81 -- 8+1=9
2006-09-19 07:56:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Memory cards are GOOD. The best (3x5 index cards by parents) are ones you work with your child, without the answers on the back. (No cheating).
You go through 10
Any child does not immediately gets, goes in the "missed pile" Even if he gets it after thinking. This is important, because you want some "easy ones" in the missed pile too.
Then, you go through the missed pile several times.
Then, you go through another NEW set of 10, but the missed pile is added to the ten (another practice for those)
And do it again
it should be fun. But it is important that the child know the tabels AUTOMATICALLY, without FIGURING it out.
This is old-school teaching. But the idea is that, for higher math, the thinking should be done on the harder parts of the problems, and multiplication should essentially be done from memory.
Good luck
2006-09-19 09:21:46 · answer #4 · answered by robert_dod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A trick for the 9 times tables:
example 4x9
Hold both hands out in front of you. Put down the fourth finger from the left. The number of fingers to the left of that finger is how many 10s and the number of fingers to the right is how many ones.
2006-09-19 08:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by lynnca1972 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By counting.
5s and 10s are a good example:
5, 10, 15, 20, 25 30
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60
2006-09-19 07:47:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By memory cards to practice with friends/family members. Another good way is to start with the easier ones first-
1*something = something
0*something = 0
11*2 = 22 (*3=33,*4=44, etc.)
2*something = something+something
You know the rest...
Hope I helped! ;)
xxx
2006-09-19 07:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by femmestranger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flashcards
2006-09-19 16:17:33 · answer #8 · answered by happy_teaching_gal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i memorized that in two days because of flash cards when i'm 7-8 yrs old..i think it's effective
2006-09-19 10:15:16 · answer #9 · answered by alyxa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
based on sw21uk2's, spring_girl's and yetanotheronlinename's answers, sure those are correct. But, the most important thing is praising him with sweets .....(and so on)
Note: Sorry guys (and gals) for using your names.....
2006-09-19 08:47:37 · answer #10 · answered by 3vilMTV 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋