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The Way For Children To Learn Times Tables Is To Learn Them So That They Have 100% Instant Recall
The article explains just how very important tables are to children’s lives and makes the interesting and frightening point that as the maths curriculum in schools gets larger than it ever was, maths teachers do not have the time to help our children learn times tables. As the Tables are a fundamental building block to learning maths and to being a success in school and in life this lack of time could have a very negative affect on your child’s performance.The article gives different ways for parents to help their children with the task of learning times tables. The sentiments of the article are commendable and it would be worthwhile exploring these further by identifying some important matters that will help parents help their children learn the tables.To do this we will go through the solutions offered by Deb Russell’s article Skip Counting - Children can use their fingers to count and a method that uses fingers is called ‘skip counting’With skip counting, as a child can count, 2,4,6,8,10 or say 10,20,30,40,60 with their fingers it is said to be a good method to learn times tables. In children’s early years learning using their fingers to work with numbers is a great as children are learning by doing something physical. The problem is that counting on fingers is not so great later when your children need to know the answers to tables instantly.In fact if you go through your fingers to find the answer this really slows you down in trying to get to the answer. What is needed is a fast method of learning, one in which the answers are recalled in an Instant. The reason for not using this method is that it is too slow.To get to a correct answer children have spend times working out the answer which of course takes time and effort and is therefore an obstacle to learn times tables effectively.Children will learn times tables far more effectively if they use a method which leads to them learning with an Instant Recall ability that takes little time and effort. Rhymes -Another suggestion in Deb Russell’s article is that that Times Tables should be learned by using a rhyme. The theory is that as child learns to know the words in a rhyme then they will know the tables.To be blunt with this method children do not learn in a way that gives the answer to a particular times table in an instant.A child needs to go through a song or a rhyme to reach the correct answer. Joint learning of opposites – Let me say at once that this method holds the beginning of what is the key to a child being able to learn times tables with Instant Recall. The joint learning idea is simple, for example when you learn say 4x6 you also learn 6x4 at the same time, and the same goes for all other tables.All tables and their opposites go together when being learned as this considerably reduces the effort and the time needed to learn the Tables.However, in helping children to learn an effective method like this you cannot assume that each table and its opposite will be learned at the same time. Even if you highlight this to children it will not necessarily sink in or be acted on.Joint learning must be positively encouraged for this to work and you therefore need a strategy that makes a clear and bold point regarding this dual learning. Drawing some conclusions from the article is that although helpful they are not the most efficient way to learn tables.To know the Times Tables well, children need to know them instantly and to use a 100% Instant Recall method of learning. The joint learning of times table opposites points towards a clear strategy and method of learning the Tables that results in 100% INSTANT RECALL for your children. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Learn Times Tables - Quick, easy, fun and effective. Tried and tested in the classroom. 100% instant recall. Go to www.timestablesmaths.com/learntimestables to find out more. |
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