![]() ![]() Wait… Didn’t you just say students need to stop relying so heavily on their fingers? I did… but it’s a starting place to help students have accuracy. So how do we take on such a daunting task with all that we have to teach in a year? I have a few tips… Tricks for Learning Those Multiplication Factsġ.) The Fingers. Basic facts should be automatic-and fast! As impressed as I was that this student understood the underlying concept, it was time-consuming. I even remember one student subtracting 3 each time from 42 to determine the quotient of a problem. Each year I am haunted by how many children rely so often on their fingers for computation as opposed to their memories. There is very little in math we can complete without the need of our basic facts. Now, as a teacher, I realize that nearly everything in math rests so heavily on learning our multiplication facts. Being a child, of course I had no idea how significant learning multiplication would be. There are very few things I remember about elementary school, but the exciting feeling of learning multiplication facts ranked up there high. ![]() And who doesn’t love candy (besides dentists)? While I don’t have actual candy, I do have a virtual treat for you today! In fact, it’s multiplication facts! And that’s a fact! It’s October, that time of the year when the air starts to smell crisp, the leaves change colors, and the stores fill up with every kind of candy known to man.
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