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Other than Timez Attack, are you familiar with any other resources to help kids memorize their times tables.
My kids know how to do multiplication and understand what it is, but they spend so much time counting out "4 groups of 7" or somesuch that I think they'd really benefit from just having the tables down in memory.
I'm thinking of music chants, drills, books, games etc.
Ideas?
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This is not a *resource*, but this is how my dc learned. The summer between 3rd and 4th grade I gave them each a 12 by 12 multiplication table I had drawn on a piece of cardboard, each block about 1/2 in. square. I highlighted each row and column in a different color, so that, say, all the x2 facts were yellow. Then I asked them to look at the chart every day for about 10 minutes, seeing if they could find patterns or relationships among the numbers. It was so not a big deal - and they started 4th grade with a good grasp of the basic multiplication facts.
Hope that helps.
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The Best of Times by Greg Tang
Edited to add...my kids really respond to Montessori type work that helps them *see* what various *groups of* look like. This has been the most effective way I've ever found for allowing a child to see in a concrete way various math concepts including multiplication.
Other than that...we just set aside 10 minutes every morning and work flash card drills to really hammer those multiplication facts that aren't *sticking*. Seems like 4th grade is always the year that my kids really master multiplication tables in this way.
The Math Is Fun website is great for online drill time. I always hat tip Jodie for first mentioning that website (or at least that's the first time I heard about it...from her mention here) because it has become a staple here!  They have some fun multiplication games and drills.
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I really recommend the games from Activities for Learning. The entire game box is excellent but since you are focusing on multiplication, they do sell just the multiplication games here for $6.oo
http://activitiesforlearning.com/multiplicationgamesboxed.as px
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There is a musical resource that herdingkittens linked in this thread.
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http://www.triggermemorysystem.com/
My dd has had a very difficult time memorizing some of the multiplication and division tables. On this site, if you sign up for the free newsletter, they send you a sample. We tried it and dd had her 9x table memorized as well as the corresponding division problems in about 40 minutes. We tried it last Tues. and she still knows them all, so I ordered the full DVD yest.
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saigemom wrote:
http://www.triggermemorysystem.com/
My dd has had a very difficult time memorizing some of the multiplication and division tables. On this site, if you sign up for the free newsletter, they send you a sample. We tried it and dd had her 9x table memorized as well as the corresponding division problems in about 40 minutes. We tried it last Tues. and she still knows them all, so I ordered the full DVD yest. |
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Just wanted to say that we used Times Tales over the summer. (Not the DVD, but the flip book and flash cards). DD had them memorized in a week, AND she had a blast doing it! I do recommend that they understand the how and why behind multiplication as this is simply visual linking of the facts.
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