Maths Blog

Questions are the answer to multiplication tables, but not just WHAT, also WHERE!

Location, location, location! No we are not talking the property market ,nor where you are located in the world. What we are talking about is learning multiplication tables and how questions linked to location is the very best way for your children to learn their times tables.

What questions should you ask your children to help them remember and learn their tables?

To test our children when learning multiplication tables we usually ask questions all beginning with the word ‘WHAT’.

For example:

What is 6 x 8?

What is 9 x 6?

It seems obvious that asking ‘WHAT’ this is the right thing to ask.

It is ‘a’ right thing to ask, however, there is another question, a very powerful question that can be asked that will aid and massively increase children’s ability in remembering their multiplication tables.

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Activities and learning resources for learning maths and multiplication tables

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?

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Maths and Movement

What on earth has movement got to do with maths?

Surely movement is to do with physical education or sports and not maths!

When children are moving about they are happy.

Children therefore love to move and are always in perpetual motion whenever they have the choice. Do your children just sit still unless they have to?

The problem with Maths is that it is mostly learned by sitting still with children trying to get the number work into their heads whilst at the same time doing something that is not natural to them .i.e. being still.

Being still is therefore not the best way to learn especially for children, so what is?

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Photograph and remember times tables in an instant

Most people will have looked at their times tables as small numbers on a page and will often have said the numbers as they have tried to learn them.

This is not the best way to learn multiplication tables. There is a far easier way that uses your children’s minds just like a camera so that they can recall the tables in an instant.

We continually learn things in a visual way. So we see things and remember them and this is the key to learning tables the smart way!

To make multiplication tables far more memorable for your children you can use big visual numbers and put these in a place that will be remembered, so:
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Build Confidence in Maths and Motivate your Children to do well

There is a basic need to learn times tables and the great news is that they can be learnt in such a way to give your child confidence.

Most parents know how incredibly important it is for their children to learn the times tables.

The tables are so important that they are one of the building blocks to education. You have to learn your tables if you want to become good at maths.

You can teach the the times tables in such a way that your children will gain huge confidence, raise their self esteem and also gain the belief that they are clever. How?

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