Is there a program or anything I could use to practice my multiplication skills?

Question

I've tried to look for one, but most of them are made for little kids. Pretty much all the Math programs I've found are almost like old Nintendo like Mario games with Math thrown in there as a bonus.

This would be fine if I were a little kid with a small attention span, but I am a college student who never took math as seriously as I should have. In the college I go to they expect people to do math without a calculator and I unless I train myself somehow I absolutely CANNOT do this.

Anyway, is there any program or anything to learn multiplication THAT ISN'T DIRECTED towards little kids who want to play games? Isn't there any serious Math training programs out there? If not I guess I'll have to do everything by pen and paper but I am not very good at self taught type stuff. It'd be nice if there were a serious program for PC to do this.

Answer 1

The reason most multiplication aides are built for kids, its because its at that age most students learn it. Here is something to make you feel better. In all actuality you really are only confused about memorizing a few of the mutliplication facts. Make a table 11 columns across and 11 down Write the numbers 1 through ten across the top and down the side. Then fill in the answers you know. The one times are easy right? The twos are easy? The fives are easy 5 1- -15- 20 and the tens are easy. The nines are easy - put your hands out in front of you , flat. curl your little finger down on your left hand for 1 times 9 you see nine fingers right? Put them flat in front of you again curl the ring finger on your left hand for two times nine, you see your little finger, which is now a ten and eight other fingers to your right, 18, Curl your middle finger for 3 x 9 you will have two fingers to the left, twenty and seven to the right, 27. This will work for all your multiples of nine.
Look at the chart, you will have more than half of it complete, the ones your have to memorize are not as bad as you think. concentrate on those. Time yourself filling in that chart and after a while it gets faster and faster.

Answer 2

http://www.multiplication.com/teach.htm

Has some good tricks that I found when I was looking for ways to teach my kids. i never knew most of the tricks, we certainly weren't taught that in school, just rote memorizations. It seems to me that the more you use it, the better you understand.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

In math.com you can select the grade.
Go there and have some fun with it.