Times tables/ multiplication

I guess I must have learned the old fashioned way like you! I've seen that knuckle trick before ut can never remember how it's done. I think the best way isn't parrot-fashion but to somehow get him to see how the numbers interact. I liked that the 9x table, everything adds up to nine and the first digit goes up and the second goes down, ie 18, 27, 36. I also find it easier to work with the rounder numbers. i remember 6x6 is 36 and 8x8 is 64, but I would have to work out 7x7 so i would think 10x7 is 70, 3x7 is 21, so 70-21 = 49. This is probably all useless though, as I'm an accountant so excel and calculators have made my arithmetic rather rusty!

I am in the same boat. What we have been doing this summer with the girls is practicing them over and over again. I make up sheets with all fours, then they work them as fast as they can, then we move to 3's and on. They have to work these everyday (1 sheet a day) and I can see an improvement in their times. I reckon that old saying, practice makes perfect is true.

I learned them the old-fashioned way - we recited them over and over (and over!) again in school. It was unbelievably boring but it worked. In fact even now when it comes to the hard ones like the 8's and 9's I still find myself reciting it in my head to get the answer. The other thing is I learned them when I was about 6 or 7. Nowadays, here at least, they seem to wait until children are a bit older before teaching them their tables.

Can you put them to music? I hhave heard that any thing put to musice kids can learn pretty fast. I learn them pretty much the way that you did too. When my kids were growing up there a commercial that helped learn about a lot of things. That was where I learned what an adjutive and a conjuntion was. I think it was called school house rock. I just checked and they o have something for Times tables/ multiplication and it looks like they run around 11 to 13 Dollare. http://astore.amazon.com/schoolhouserock-20

When I was in Elementary there was a timetable chart and they were all on there. The last one being 9x9=81. I loved learning time tables, it was so much fun. After multiplication came divisions and you could multiply to check your division answers. Then came fractions, I hated fractions and could not get pass them. To this day, I am still trying to get passed fractions.

I remember in school at the beginning of each math lesson we would recite a times table aloud and together. As we knew each one, we would move on to the next from 2 times up to 12 times. It must have worked because I can remember it to this day. No flash cards at all in those days. Alphabet was learned in the same way in English lessons :-)

I just wrote the times table over and over again. You know that table where you have 1 through 9 on top and again on the left...that you light it up and that gives you the answer. I would write that over and over again until I got it.

I learned them like you did and I still remember most of them. Some numbers I had trouble with and still have to think a little bit about them.

I don't remember how I learned mine. My oldest is learning hers though. Her teacher gave her a table to learn by & memorize. She also has a learning computer & there is a program on there to help her.

Learning table was always a BIG thing for me..!! Not that simple..!! I struggled a lot really a lot!! I used to cram them like 3 hrs constantly with no break..!! Still no change.Then I stared writing them up 10 times every day..!! And after so many days and so much struggle I succeded to learn these tables till 9 only!! And Till TODAY I know table only till 9...!! I am 18 now....and still!! But now I am much more faster in counting things up and now there are many others ways to multiply things up..!! So now theres no need to CRAM the tables up. AS I can always multiply them easily..no matter how many digits number it is. But verbaly I only know table till 9 only..:P :P So sorry I cannot give any tip on this topic cause this was itself next to impossible thing for me!! All the best for your kid. :)

The times tables are easy to learn if you just keep at it....the three table has a pattern 3,6,9, then when you need the next set 12, 15, 18 notice that the sum of the digits of each equal 3, 6, and 9. The next set is the same 21, 24, 27, and it is the same for the next set but then the pattern breaks. The nines table is easy for the sum of the digits for each is always nine...9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90. The fours table is easy if you remember the code 48260, those are the five ending numbers for each set of five, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 then 24, 28, 32, 36, 40. five table is easy ending number is either a 5 or a 0. I don't known how high you have to go or which tables you are learning but theres a few.

I remember that we learned them one number at a time so that we really had to know the times table for that one number before we had to move on to the next number. Both my kids had their own little tricks for remembering. My daughter had the most problems and it did take her a lot longer. Thankfully, the internet was very helpful in getting her to learn, but the most important thing was to practice as much as possible. Here is a cute website just for the purpose of learning multiplication. The games they have on there might help your son memorize the number combinations and the fact that it's a game may hold his interest. Good luck! http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

I have a problem remembering numbers so learning the times table was hard for me. I still struggle with it at times. My daughter is going in to the third grade next year. Her mom tries to do school work with the children during the summer months. Anyway there is a website that someone told us about that you might find helpful. Try going to iknowthat.com It has all kinds of different things to teach the children. Here is another one that she found useful as well. http://www.coolmath4kids.com/times-tables/times-tables-lesson-lattice-multiplication-1.html

When I was a kid I never actually learned the times table. I was so poor at anything mathematical. later, I learned the 2 the 5 and the 10 tabels. I also learned the 11 table. These ones where easy enough. It was not until I was grown that I actually got the idea of waht it was all about and actually learned the other tables. I found a way to do it and now I can pretty much multiply anything in my head.

We had to memorize them and we had to recite it in the class. Then everyday our teacher would flash cards until we get to know it by heart. My nephew too is having a hard time with it. I know people do that knuckle thing but I never learned that. I think that's a good technique.

I learned the table up to 12. We cut and made on using card and then covered it to protect it. Slow progress getting used to it but I liked the way my teacher show our class and it made sense and stuck with me :) ~Joey Could be an idea to get some card and make one then use it as a guide and for learning :P

I remeber doing that in the third grade. It was easy at first tehn it got harder. We did it 10 times and I felt like it was a write off but now I understand why we had to do it , we also had the flash cards as I still have them here somewhere in the house. I don't remember how I did it I just remeroized it.

time is money this words are femouse becouse whant to have that incash each every second.so time table is important to all pesons life,and timetable manegment is plan of life that gives smart decipline of life.....

My brother taught me when he learned. He was so happy he had learned something like that in school that he came home and showed me, so when I got to school I knew it already and it was awesome. What he did was he had flash cards and he'd quiz me on them.

Silly mistakes lead's big errors in mathr, either it may be +,*,/ or-, whatever my be. To get the right answer children get squeez'd either in school by teacher or in home by mom or dad. So, they won't find any other option's other than by-hearting the table's. By this method, even when u wake up ur child in the late night and ask them some table value, i am sure that they will tell the right answer.