Have you noticed that children find it difficult to sit still while learning maths, particularly when learning multiplication tables by rote learning. When sitting still for too long their concentration can wonder so what learning resources do you have to help maintain their concentration on maths and multiplication tables?

What activities can you encourage your children to do to help them stay focused on their times tables?

Put simply what can you do when you are at home and want to help your children with their maths and multiplication tables and maintain their concentration, focus and energy at the same time?

The answer is simple and believe it or not you have the necessary learning resources to help your children right at your fingertips. What resources?

When they are learning maths and their multiplication tables get your children to stand up and move about and that way they will be more focused, full of energy and their concentration will be more likely to be maintained. Sounds too simple? Too good to be true? Surely they should be sitting down and concentrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, Dr Max Vercruyssen of the University of South Carolina doesn’t think so. He has found that the way a person positions their body has a marked affect on their ability to learn and retain focus. He therefore recommends that amongst the many learning resources available that standing is used to improve learning.

Two things help your children when standing and moving. First the blood and oxygen flow to the brain increases significantly and secondly the psychological affect on the child is to make them much more alert with the brain then learning more.

What activities can your children undertake when standing and moving about so that their concentration is maintained and they better learn their maths and multiplication tables? To enable your children to learn in this way and get the best from learning whilst moving ‘The Learning Well’ recommends children use printable maths and printable multiplication tables that are called Memory Sheets.

These Memory Sheets have the maths questions and answers or multiplication tables questions and answers on them and are printed out or copied.

The Memory Sheets are then displayed in different places and locations around your home and the combination of location, color, images and the questions and answers help your children remember the answers. The beauty of it all is this; the children move about the house having great fun linking the locations with the questions and the answers.

What happens when you have a difficult question, say multiplication tables that are really hard? The answer is to put them somewhere silly and your children will laugh and remember the answers, for example on the toilet seat or the ceiling.

All this standing and moving massively helps your children’s concentration and is great fun, it keeps boredom away, and results in a great improvement in your children’s ability to learn their maths and times tables or multiplication tables. Very soon know the answers to the questions on the Memory Sheets and all without rote learning.