My son has problems with auditory rote memorization and I am not sure if this is why he is having difficulty with mutliplication, but he just isn’t able to remember the mult. tables and I don’t know that there is any other way BUT to memorize them. Flash cards do not help if he doesn’t have a clue and if I don’t do tables in order, he gets very frustrated. He just adds onto the last answer, so he cannot do them out of order. Is there any program that is really good at teaching him how to remember mult. tables?
Re: Multiplication and rote memorization...
There is a way to teach your child his time tables. The 1’s of course are easy. But you have to show him that math is a maze. It’s like a puzzle and you have to find the pattern to put the pieces together. For instance, if you were teaching him his 2’s, you have to let him know that the only numbers on his right is 2,4,6,8,0 and because that’s the first 0, you place a 1 in front to show that it is the first 0 and start all over again with 12,14,16,18,20. Now because that’s the second 0, you put a 2 in front of it to show that it’s the second 0, and so forth. But there is a pattern to all of your time tables, you have to figure out the maze or pattern.
Re: Multiplication and rote memorization...
go to www.funbrain.com and let him do the multiplication games there.
Re: Multiplication and rote memorization...
Hi… Here are two sites that offer other ways to learn facts. All of my third grade resource room students have their facts down. Most of them memorized them with lots of drill and practice. I have one student that memorized most of them, put uses Touch Math for the 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, and 5’s. Then she uses the 9 trick for the nines. I have another student that uses some rhymes to remember tricky ones. I would prefer that they have them memorized and most do. But, if that doesn’t work you need to turn to other methods…. Try these
http://www.geocities.com/smilecdg/multiplicationpage.html
www.multiplication.com
Math Facts the Fun Way is probably the fastest and most inexpensive way to get the math facts memorized. A home tutoring kit costs about $44, although you could get by with just the book. Website is http://www.citycreek.com
We are using Quarter Mile Math, which is another good program. This one is software. Costs vary depending on the version you get. The full K-12 bundle is about $99. Basically the child races against himself. You can select topics as specific as the 2X tables, or mixes of times tables up to 12x12. There are many other topics including fractions, decimals, etc. We do this for 5 or 10 minutes a day (never more than that) and are steadily working our way through the multiplication facts this way. Website is http://www.thequartermile.com
In general, I would think Fun would be best for more severely LD kids. I like QMM because we are working on speed as well as memorization. One of my dd’s problem areas is computation speed.
Mary