My daughter needs help with memorizing her multiplication table. I need something that she can do on her own. She gets frustrated with me doing repetitive work and wants to learn it "by herself". She is 7, can someone point me in the right direction?
There are videos on youtube that teach times tables...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yvf3YbFAew thats one but down the right hand side from here there are a ton!
Check out Times Tables the Fun Way. It teaches the times tables via stories and songs to help reinforce them with a mnemonic. You can get the program via a workbook, CD, or online. It teaches, reviews, and quizzes; you can track progress and erase progress in sections so that it can be redone. The CD and online program can be used with multiple kids. You can find Times Tables the Fun Way through City Creek Press: http://www.citycreekpress.com
I'm a great believer in the old fashioned multiplication tables. I know some so called experts think they are not so relevant, but I don't agree.
Times Tales. Of my personal favorite...Memorize in Minutes: The Times Tables. Check out the "Learn" tab at the top too!
I agree with you completely. As a child, I had to know my tables up to 12 and my squares up to 20 by the age of 6. I have never forgotten them and can still multiply two numbers together instantly. It's an incredibly useful skill and, as you say, there's little substitute to learning them by rote.
We find it easiest to work on one at a time. Here's another good free site: http://www.learnyourtables.co.uk/ This one is good for practicing what they have learned. My kids will do this one over and over again, trying to beat their scores, but hate regular speed drills. They keep track of their scores in each area on paper. http://www.learn4good.com/games/mathforkids/multiplicationdivision.htm
I never required my children to learn tables. I had a couple of charts on the wall, one is the square of the multiplication tables and the other the tables all written out. Then we did so much long multiplication and other math problems that they learned them by referring to the chart. My children were always allowed to ask me a single digit multiplication question and I would always give the answer. If they asked the same one enough times, gradually they learned it.
Have you tried Reflex Math? I can't post the link here, but if you google it the site will pop up. My daughter is using it to learn her addition and subtraction facts and it's been wonderful. She loves playing the games (in fact, I have to set a timer to ensure that she stops) and is learning her math facts really, really quickly. Haven't used it for multiplication, however.
Did you purchase this for $35 for one student? My son actually uses Reflex Math up at the high school with his math tutor. I think he likes it. I'm going to look the site over some more and see if our homebased program will buy this for my daughter next school year.
Yep, $35 for one student. It's been fantastic -- ends up being a lot of math when coupled with our other math lesson, but having these facts down cold has helped her so much at this stage. Oh -- Reflex also does a great job of changing the games to keep the kids interested (they get progressively more challenging), incentivizing them with an avatar and goodies they can "buy" for the avatar with tokens, and providing detailed reports for the parent on exactly what's been mastered and what's still outstanding. I'm actually surprised it doesn't cost more considering what it provides. It's amazingly well designed.
I know there are a lot of internet resources out there, but my family is a little old-school and loves board and card games. One of my favorites for learning skip counting/multiplication is a card game called Speed! (The exclamation point is part of the game's title). Here's a review of the game from a blog: http://gamesforlearning-mary.blogspot.com/2011/12/review-of-speed-game-for-multiplication.html
