WHAT ARE SOME GOOD TIPS TO HELP CHILDREN WITH MEMORIZING MULTIPLICATION FACTS?
There are many ways to help us remember such things, but what works best will be different for different people. For example, you can try to remember something by saying it repeatedly, writing it, acting it out, representing or drawing it, making up a game or story or song about it, and so on. Usually, the more ways you use to connect it to your brain, the easier it is to remember it. Here’s how this might work with multiplication facts. You can make a multiplication table. Since 1 times any number is just that number, we can leave the 1’s off. Multiplying a number on the left by a number on the top gives you the number (“product”) where the row (across) meets the column (down). Here’s 4 x 7 = 28 (shown in red): x | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 –+—————————————— 2 | 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 | 3 | 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 | 4 | 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 | 5 |10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 | 6 |12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 | 7 |14 21 28 35 4
